More 'color' ;-) proxmox iso's do, and they also include zfs on root as an option, but they require gui bits to install from what I can tell.
https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads Penned by Carlos Cardenas on 20180823 8:45.44, we have: | On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:43:17PM +0200, Martijn van Duren wrote: | > Hello Ales, | > | > I ran into the same problem and found that the Debian installer doesn't | > include the virtio drivers and thus can't use the cdrom or the disk. | > | > I worked around this by bootstrapping the disk via the qemu port and | > booting the disk from vmm once it's finally done. Qemu is significantly | > slower than vmm, so do get another cup of $BEVERAGE. | > | > I haven't taken the time to contact Debian about this, so it's | > probably not yet known to them. | > | > Hope this helps for now. | > | > martijn@ | | To add some color what martijn said, the standard debian isos do not | include the virtio drivers; however, the netinst iso does (for whatever | reason). You can boot off that and perform a network install if you're | so inclined. | | However, after typing that, I attempted to boot a netinst 9.5 iso and it | looks like those drivers are not there anymore (they have hyperv and xen | pv drivers present though). You can use an older netinst ISO to do it | as it will still have them but I don't know how far back you'll need to | go since it's been a while since I tested debian. | | At this point, if you want debian, it looks like you'll have to | bootstrap with qemu. I would also encourage you to contact the debian | folks about this as well, specifically the inclusion of virtio drivers | since they are already including hyperv and xen. | | +--+ | Carlos | | > On 08/23/18 12:18, Ales Tepina wrote: | > > Hello! | > > | > > I have a lenovo T470 running current on which i would like to use vmd | > > to run debian for some work specific stuff. | > > I'm having trouble installing debian though because the installer | > > doesn't seem to find cdrom. | > > | > > My vm.conf is pretty basic: | > > switch "local" { | > > interface bridge0 | > > } | > > vm "work" { | > > disable | > > memory 2G | > > cdrom "/home/vm/debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso" | > > disk "/home/vm/debian.img" | > > interface { switch "local" } | > > } | > > | > > On the debian installer boot menu, i select Install and press TAB to | > > edit the menu entry. I remove the "quiet" at the end and append from | > > --- onwards so at the end it looks like this: | > > (omitted part)/install.amd/vmlinuz desktop=xfce vga=788 | > > initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz --- clocksource=tsc console=ttyS0,115200 | > > noapic | > > | > > The text based installer starts and i'm able to choose language, | > > location and keyboard. | > > At the "Detect and mount CD-ROM section, i'm informed that "No common | > > CD-ROM drive was detected." and i'm given the option to load CD-ROM | > > drivers from removable media. When i select NO the installer gives me | > > the option to manually select a CD-ROM module or device. I can choose | > > between none and cdrom. The cdrom option just asks me for a device | > > like /dev/ cdrom | > > | > > I tried with debian netboot image - same problem. | > > | > > I've read Mike Larkin's slides "OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update" and if some of | > > you are running linux in vmm (for testing purposes of course) i would | > > be gratefull to know how did you manage to get past this problem? | > > | > > Best regards, Ales | > > | > -- Todd Fries .. t...@fries.net ____________________________________________ | \ 1.636.410.0632 (voice) | Free Daemon Consulting, LLC \ 1.405.227.9094 (voice) | http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com \ 1.866.792.3418 (FAX) | PO Box 16169, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-2169 \ sip:freedae...@ekiga.net | "..in support of free software solutions." \ sip:4052279...@ekiga.net \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt
