KVM instances user and older version of qemu than linux, so It's
probably good to start and check if there are any kwerks to running
Solaris on qemu-kvm:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#UNIX_Family:_Solaris.2FOpenSolaris
There seem to be a few in regard to USB, also take into account that our
qemu-kvm is way old compared to linux.
I know smartos runs on smartos in kvm, but it skips the whole grub
thing.
Hope this helps you a bit, if not, with a bit of luck someone more
knowledgeable will be around.
Regards
Jorge
On 2015-08-09 12:00, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
Hi all:
I'm trying to get Solaris 11 running in a SmartOS KVM zone. However,
I'm seeing the error "couldn't find suitable memory target".
Here's a screenshot http://imgur.com/AU6AeQ8 [1]
To get that level of detail, I set debug=all, and set pager=1 in the
grub menu before booting it up.
While I passed -k to the the $multiboot $kern $kern, a reading of the
grub2 source shows me that it is grub which has faced the error before
even going to hand over control to the Solaris kernel.
FYI, here's the equivalent on Solaris 11 on VMWare Fusion, where I was
able to install Solaris 11 successfully : http://imgur.com/B2eWKYe [2]
Here's how I'm starting the KVM instance.
[root@00-1e-67-99-81-d3
/zones/9310d9b3-e6bd-44a5-a156-b452c5e471f9/root]# time vmadm boot
9310d9b3-e6bd-44a5-a156-b452c5e471f9 order=cd,once=d
cdrom=/sol-11_2-live-x86.iso,ide
Successfully started VM 9310d9b3-e6bd-44a5-a156-b452c5e471f9
real 0m1.290s
user 0m0.327s
sys 0m0.524s
The md5sum of my ISO image is 99a71c71bdbf7d9649fc2f24185a6934.
Here's the json that I'm using to set up the KVM Zone:
{
"alias": "solaris11",
"autoboot": false,
"brand": "kvm",
"hostname": "solaris11",
"resolvers": [
"8.8.8.8",
"8.8.4.4"
],
"max_physical_memory": 8192,
"vcpus": 2,
"nics": [
{
"interface": "net0",
"model": "virtio",
"nic_tag": "stub0",
"ip": "10.232.1.40",
"gateway": "10.232.1.1",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"allow_ip_spoofing": "false",
"primary": "1"
}
],
"disks": [
{
"boot": true,
"model": "virtio",
"size": 32767,
"compression": "off"
}
]
}
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