SmartOS is built to work that way, booting from an "static" ISO or USB or PXE, and just using the hard-drives in the system as store for the zones + vms, the os "drives" is loaded into memory.
In a VM, it's not going to change you much to boot form a virtual DVD drive vs virtual HD install, what troubles you booting from the ISO? On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Roman Bogorodskiy <no...@freebsd.org> wrote: > gre...@freebsd.org wrote: > >> Hi Roman, >> >> > I tried this instruction and I was able to get into smartos >> > installation. I choose all the default options there, it reported >> > successful installation. Then I dropped 'ahci-cd' part, but I cannot >> > get >> > smartos boot. >> >> For smartos, the CD should always be left there since that's the boot >> media. The first boot just detects that the hard drive is empty which >> triggers the install. > > Ah, I see. It works now, thanks! > >> > And, by the way, is it possible to run FreeBSD using UEFI? >> > >> > I encountered problems with that as well: >> > >> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2015-November/003904.html >> > >> > Any hints how to debug this are appreciated. >> >> The VM images don't include the UEFI loader. You'll have to boot from >> the ISO for that, and force serial console output at the loader prompt. > > Is it possible to prepare an image that would not require booting from > the ISO? > > Roman Bogorodskiy _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
