On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:15:55PM -0500, J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss wrote: > I have booted SmartOS on an Intel D54250WYKH NUC unit. The NUC has 16GB of > memory and a 256GB SSD mSATA. SmartOS has booted fine off of the SmartOS USB > boot stick. I have imported (“imgadm import”) some of Joyent’s public images > for Ubuntu, SmartOS, and Centos. I have a SmartOS zone and an Ubuntu zone. > No problems. Everything looks fine. So far, so good. I’m only planning on > running a few zones at a time on this little NUC. > > > > Now…I want to run the Chromium OS in a KVM zone. So, in my naïve thinking, I > decided to build a Chromium OS KVM “raw” image from Google’s Chrome OS > developer page on my Ubuntu 15 Linux workstation with the intent of moving > the Chromium OS KVM image over to the NUC and boot the image on a KVM zone. > > > > I kind of thought that there would be a relatively straightforward method to > take the image tar/compressed on a USB stick and “import” the image onto the > global zone of the NUC. However, I found out that this is much harder than I > thought, and that I don’t have enough understanding of how to proceed. > > > > I’m hoping that someone in the community would kindly inform me of how they > would expertly perform this task to migrate a Chromium OS KVM image to a > SmartOS KVM zone. > > > > Regards, Marc
Hi Marc, To import .iso files or disk images into KVM zones from the global zone, SCP them into /zones/$VM_UUID/root/. This is the same procedure for making a virtio driver CD available to a Windows VM. Jon ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
