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[Michael March <mmarch@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't follow Solaris that closely but I vaguely remember the Joyent folks
ported all of KVM to Solaris, right?  Or am I just missing the whole point
here?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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