Robert: In following your recommended path, I'm trying to sort out the right strategy to get the raw image onto the NUC using a USB stick. So, the USB stick is formatted with some filesystem that Linux can see. I put the USB stick onto the Linux workstation and copy the raw image straight onto the USB stick. Now, I take the USB stick and put it into the NUC that is booted with SmartOS. I'm thinking I would be able to log into the global zone and perform a "dd if=/dev/usb/chromeos.bin of=/dev/kvm-zfs-dataset". My concern here is the formatted USB stick and trying to get SmartOS to mount or read it.
Would you concur? -M -----Original Message----- From: Robert Mustacchi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 12:22 PM To: [email protected]; J Marc Edwards Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Running Chrome OS in SmartOS KVM zone...some advice/guidance... On 01/09/2015 08:15 PM, 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. What I'd do is first count the total number of disks that you have in your Chromium OS KVM image, sounds like it just has a single disk. Next, I'd go ahead and just create a KVM VM via vmadm and just specify a disk size that matches the disk size of the disks you have for Chromium OS. Note, as opposed to specifying an image_uuid for those disks, you can just describe the disk size. From there, that'll create a zvol which I would then dd the raw image you said you have to. Once you do that, you should just be able to vmadm start the VM. Robert ------------------------------------------- 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
