Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-29 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: >> The second one works on both real hardare and VM, BUT with a >> prequisite that you have to export-import rpool first on that >> particular system. Unless you already have solaris installed, this >> usually means you need to boot with a live

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Cusack
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > > I haven't been able to get this working. To keep it simpler, next I am > > going to try usbcopy of the live USB image in the VM, and see if I can > boot > > real hardware from th

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-29 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > I haven't been able to get this working.  To keep it simpler, next I am > going to try usbcopy of the live USB image in the VM, and see if I can boot > real hardware from the resultant live USB stick. To be clear, I'm talking about two things

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Cusack
I haven't been able to get this working. To keep it simpler, next I am going to try usbcopy of the live USB image in the VM, and see if I can boot real hardware from the resultant live USB stick. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Jim Kli

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-22 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: >> Or maybe not.  I guess this was findroot() in sol10 but in sol11 this >> seems to have gone away. > > I haven't used sol11 yet, so I can't say for certain. > But it is possible that the default boot (without findroot) > would use the bootfs pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-11-22 10:24, Frank Cusack пишет: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Frank Cusack mailto:fr...@linetwo.net>> wrote: grub does need to have an idea of the device path, maybe in vbox it's seen as the 3rd disk (c0t2), so the boot device name written to grub.conf is "disk3" (whatever

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Frank Cusack
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > grub does need to have an idea of the device path, maybe in vbox it's seen > as the 3rd disk (c0t2), so the boot device name written to grub.conf is > "disk3" (whatever the terminology for that is in grub-speak), but when I > boot on the Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Nico Williams
Moving boot disks from one machine to another used to work as long as the machines were of the same architecture. I don't recall if it was *supported* (and wouldn't want to pretend to speak for Oracle now), but it was meant to work (unless you minimized the install and removed drivers not needed o

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Frank Cusack
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Frank Cusack > wrote: > >> > > >> > If we ignore the vbox aspect of it, an

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: >> > >> > If we ignore the vbox aspect of it, and assume real hardware with real >> > devices, of course you can install on

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Frank Cusack
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > > > > If we ignore the vbox aspect of it, and assume real hardware with real > > devices, of course you can install on one x86 hardware and move the > drive to > > boot on another

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >> >> So basically the question is if you install solaris on one machine, >> can you move the disk (in this case the usb stick) to another machine >> and boot it there, right? > > Yes,

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Frank Cusack
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > So basically the question is if you install solaris on one machine, > can you move the disk (in this case the usb stick) to another machine > and boot it there, right? > Yes, but one of the machines is a virtual machine. The answer, as

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: > I have a Sun machine running Solaris 10, and a Vbox instance running Solaris > 11 11/11.  The vbox machine has a virtual disk pointing to /dev/disk1 > (rawdisk), seen in sol11 as c0t2. > > If I create a zpool on the Sun s10 machine, on a USB