green_dood

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Hi:

I've been searching the forum and I have not found specific information about my problem.

The situation is that I have managed to install a Solaris 10 guest under KVM/Qemu in a Ubuntu Gusty machine with AMD Turion X2 processors and 512MiB for the VM. The problem is that after the install, when I try to boot the VM (either KVM/Qemu or Qemu), it goes into a endless reboot loop.

Considerations:

• 1.- When trying to install only with qemu, the installer complained about the installer itself. It said something like "this is not a solaris 10 operating system disc". With KVM i did not have this problem.
  
  2.-I Checked the md5 sums and were all ok.
  
  3.-I have tryied the --no-acpi options
  
  4.-I am concerned about this other thread (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp...sageID=9414400) in which some guy (yarchie73) complains about the same problem in a real machin with Core Duo processors. May this problem be related with mine?
  
  

Thanks in advance!!

jay73

Hi! The name may look a bit different but I am that same guy who posted on the Sun forums a year ago. I have to say that I have seen a lot of progress since then. My original suspicions were eventually confirmed, it really was an issue with the newer Intel CPUs not being (properly) supported. But that part got solved with the next Solaris release although it still left me without sound or network. Both worked fine when I switched over to the Solaris Express edition, though. It tends to be a bit ahead in terms of hardware support. I am now a happy (though occasional) Solaris user.

As for your issue, I suspect that it is indirectly related to mine.I imagine that Qemu is having the same issues with the bootloader that VMware or native installs on Core 2 Duo systems had back then. I have heard about similar Qemu/Solaris issues over the last two years so this may be a structural limitation. Unless the issue gets addressed by Qemu or the folks at Sun, there isn't all that much that you can do. Maybe try Solaris Express or one of the live distros that are based on openSolaris.

green_dood

Ok i get it.

Ill be getting a copy of solaris express. I'll tell you what happens next.

Thank you.

paracelsus

Did you have any successes with Solaris on kvm in the meantime?

SuperJuice

Must only be every few months that someone tries to get Solaris happening with QEMU. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04. Just installed the latest Solaris 10 x86_64 (not OpenSolaris) and I am having the constant reboot issue. Have tried multiple configurations and not getting anywhere.

Good to see i'm not the only one having this problem, but not the best news that there isn't a quick fix available.

Don't want to use OpenSolaris because of consistency in testing, but thought i'd post to say that this is still ongoing and I feel sorry for you if you have spent any time on this problem .

CPU is a C2D 2.4.

Off to install VMWare, have had success with Sol10 in VMWare Workstation for those looking for an alternative.

paracelsus

VirtualBox works nicely with Solaris too.