[Users] Solaris 11.1 ISO panic on boot

[René Koch]

Hi,

-----Original message-----
> From:Sander Grendelman <sander at grendelman.com>
> Sent: Monday 16th December 2013 11:00
> To: Joop <jvdwege at xs4all.nl>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Solaris 11.1 ISO panic on boot
> 
> There's also a thread about Solaris 11 here:
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/016168.html
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Joop <jvdwege at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Blaster wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a Solaris 11.1 system running on a nice piece of hardware that I’d
> >> like to make better use of.  I would like to virtualize it under ovirt.
> >>
> >> I created an ovirt guest using the RHEL 64 bit template.  I attached the
> >> Solaris 11.1 ISO and booted.  As soon as the Solaris banner is displayed,
> >> poof, kernel panic.

I suggest to use the following settings for your Solaris guest:
* Operating System: Other
* nic1: rtl8139
* Disk1: IDE

Booting from the DVD ISO works fine for Sol 10 and 11 with these settings.

> >>
> >> Of course every whizzes by so fast I have no chance of getting a screen
> >> shot.
> >>
> >> Has anyone been successful in boot Solaris 11.1 under ovirt?  Should I
> >> have picked a different template?

In my oVirt setup (3.3 now, but worked on 3.2, too) there are Solaris 10 and 11 vms running.
See the specs above.

I had some issues with network traffic, which can be solved with a host hook (99_fix_solaris):
https://github.com/ovido/ovirt-stuff/tree/master/hooks

Please let me know if this fixes your issues...


Regards,
René



> >>
> >>
> >
> > I did a search through my message folder and found the thread. It was about
> > solaris10 and networking didn't work. So maybe this is different or not.
> > Could you test if the same iso can be booted using virt-manager or kvm/qemu
> > directly?
> >
> > Joop
> >
> >
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