On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <w...@fajar.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Frank Cusack <fr...@linetwo.net> wrote: > > > > If we ignore the vbox aspect of it, and assume real hardware with real > > devices, of course you can install on one x86 hardware and move the > drive to > > boot on another x86 hardware. This is harder on SPARC (b/c hostid and > zfs > > mount issues) but still possible. > > Have you tried? :D > Yes, I do this all the time. Between identical hardware, though. It used to be tricky when you had to know actual device paths and/or /dev/dsk/* names but with zfs that issue has gone away and it doesn't matter if drives show up at different locations when moving the boot drive around.
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