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[Narayan Desai <narayan.desai@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was curious, so I asked on #illumos today. Apparently, the virtio
guest block device drivers aren't complete. Someone is working on them
though. Until that work is done (and integrated into a distro), we're
all out of luck. When the bits do hit, they will be in illumos, not
solaris, from the sound of things.
 -nld

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai@xxxxxxxxx> 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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