>-----Original Message----- >From: Thierry Delaitre >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:42 AM >To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >Subject: [zfs-discuss] Using Solaris iSCSI target in VirtualBox iSCSI Initiator > >Hello, > >Im using ZFS to export some iscsi targets for the virtual box iscsi initiator. > >It works ok if I try to install the guest OS manually. > >However, Id like to be able to import my already prepared guest os vdi images >into the iscsi devices but I cant figure out how to do it. > >Each time I tried, I cannot boot. > >It only works if I save the manually installed guest os and re-instate the same as >follows: > >dd if=/dev/dsk/c3t600144F07551C20000004D619D170002d0p0 of=debian.vdi dd >if=debian.vdi of=/dev/dsk/c3t600144F07551C20000004D619D170002d0p0 > >fdisk /dev/dsk/c3t600144F07551C20000004D619D170002d0p0 > > Total disk size is 512 cylinders > Cylinder size is 4096 (512 byte) blocks > > Cylinders > Partition Status Type Start End Length % > ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === > 1 Active Linux native 0 463 464 91 > 2 EXT-DOS 464 511 48 9 > >Im wondering whether there is an issue with the disk geometry hardcoded in the >vdi file container ? > >Does the VDI disk geometry need to match the LUN size ? > >Thanks, > >Thierry.
Hi Thierry. You need to convert the VDI image into a raw image before you import into a zvol. Something like: vboxmanage internalcommands converttoraw debian.vdi debian.raw Then I run dd directly into the zvol device, not the iscsi LUN like: /dev/zvol/rdsk/zpool_name/debian Geoff _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
