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Re: Solaris Fails as Guest VM

 

My experience is that solaris is incredibly fickle on kvm. I think one of the issues had to do with the boot screen and how it uses graphics and framebuffer.

	-Sean

On 07/17/2012 08:55 PM, Narayan Desai wrote:
I suspect that you need the right solaris (more likely illumos) bits
to get guest side support for virtio. We tried a while ago and the
default openindiana at the time didn't work.
  -nld

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Joshua <josh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have tried with both KVM and qemu. Solaris starts to boot and hits
grub then cycles boot. Anyone experienced this?

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