[SOLVED] solaris 11.4 installation crashes during boot

[SomeUser]

Just downloaded Proxmox VE 6.2-1. Installed it. Tried to create a solaris 11.4 guest. Used all defaults. When the VM starts booting, the solaris kernel boots, and then crashes before it finishes loading.

Has anyone gotten solaris 11.4 working on 6.2-1, and if so, would you mind sharing your hardware config and options?

I want to migrate my solaris 11 ZFS (encrypted) over to proxmox + ZFS. I have new drives sitting in the machine, just waiting.... As soon as I can get solaris 11 running, importing my ZFS disks, I can start rsync or scp the files over to the host proxmox zfs drives.

Thanks.

 

[SomeUser]

OK, managed to solve this. Host is an AMD Phenom II, 1045T on an Asus A5M97 motherboard with 32GB Ram and a 1TB Samsung Evo 960 SSD.

Guest is Solaris 11.4.

Processor: Host
Bios: OVMF
Machine: i440fx
CD/DVD Drive (ide2): local:iso/sol-11_4-text-x86.iso,media=cdrom,size=724440K
Hard Disk (sata0): local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,size=32G

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Glad you found a working configuration!
Please mark the thread as 'SOLVED' - this helps other users with a similar issue.
Thanks!

 

[stuartbh]

OK, managed to solve this. Host is an AMD Phenom II, 1045T on an Asus A5M97 motherboard with 32GB Ram and a 1TB Samsung Evo 960 SSD.

Guest is Solaris 11.4.

Processor: Host
Bios: OVMF
Machine: i440fx
CD/DVD Drive (ide2): local:iso/sol-11_4-text-x86.iso,media=cdrom,size=724440K
Hard Disk (sata0): local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,size=32G

SomeUser,

Might I ask what SCSI controller and as well which network card type you used?

Stuart

 

[chuck7k]

SomeUser,

Might I ask what SCSI controller and as well which network card type you used?

Stuart

Installed with:

OVMF (UEFI), Default (i440fx),IDE Disk and CDrom, E1000 network,



then switched to:
OVMF (UEFI),q35, VirtIO SCSI single for controller, HDD - vtio0 (detach, atach as), network is E1000 network, while vtionet will not work ader solaris



OVMF (UEFI) and q35 used to make passthrough work with LSI SAS3008-8i

 

[deepcloud]

How did you install if i put the Bios option - it boots but fails at auto-installation and goes to maintenance state
see screenshot below
if i select OVMF - EFI option then it wants to enroll the key l how do i get passed this.

 

[chuck7k]

How did you install if i put the Bios option - it boots but fails at auto-installation and goes to maintenance state
see screenshot below
if i select OVMF - EFI option then it wants to enroll the key l how do i get passed this.

HI, no idea, but here are my Hardware and Options. Using to mirrored drives for rpool and tank.

 

[chuck7k]

How did you install if i put the Bios option - it boots but fails at auto-installation and goes to maintenance state
see screenshot below
if i select OVMF - EFI option then it wants to enroll the key l how do i get passed this.

install it with i440fx emulation!