On 12-11-15 11:57 AM, Edward Ned Harvey
(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote:
When I google around for anyone else who cares and may have already
solved the problem before I came along - it seems we're all doing the
same thing for the same reason.If by any chance you are running
VirtualBox on a solaris / opensolaris / openidiana / whatever ZFS
host, you could of course use .vdi files for the VM virtual disks, but
a lot of us are using zvol instead, for various reasons.To do the
zvol, you first create the zvol (sudo zfs create -V) and then chown it
to the user who runs VBox (sudo chown someuser /dev/zvol/rdsk/...) and
then create a rawvmdk that references it (VBoxManage internalcommands
createrawvmdk -filename /home/someuser/somedisk.vmdk -rawdisk
/dev/zvol/rdsk/...)
The problem is - during boot / reboot, or anytime the zpool or zfs
filesystem is mounted or remounted, export, import...The zvol
ownership reverts back to root:root.So you have to repeat your sudo
chown before the guest VM can start.
And the question is ...Obviously I can make an SMF service which will
chown those devices automatically, but that's kind of a crappy solution.
Is there any good way to assign the access rights, or persistently
assign ownership of zvol's?
Instead of using vdi, I use comstar targets and then use vbox built-in
scsi initiator.
Geoff
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