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      Andrew Top contributor @mchadley002
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      @mchadley002 @BobTB12 Thanks for the info! I concur, it boots now! (XCP 8.2 and 8.3)

      Two important hints: First ENABLE Viridian for the VM. It does not want to boot without it. Second BOOT with UEFI, BIOS does work but disk IO sucks.

      I used the ISO boot image: OI-hipster-minimal-20240426.iso

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        Buckle8711 @Andrew
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        Another potential new user here looking to migrate from VMWare and evaluating Proxmox and xcp-ng.
        I was leaning towards xcp-ng until I hit a blocker with laetst OmniOS 151052 and xcp-ng 8.3 that fails to boot in UEFI or BIOS modes. I tried 8.2 as well that also fails.

        any suggestions greatly appreciated.

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          Buckle8711 @Buckle8711
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          SCR-20241111-oloe.png Enabling 'Viridian' enables the client to boot but with some errors.

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            Andrew Top contributor @Buckle8711
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            @Buckle8711 It boots just fine for me with XCP 8.3... with the same PCI Warning... And the notices are not errors, so it works (I don't have the notices on my VM).

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              Buckle8711 @Andrew
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              @Andrew Thanks for confirming, it seems to be working fine so at least I can progress.
              Can I ask what vm guest tools you are running? I dont see Solaris/Illumos/OmniOS listed in the wiki so not sure how to proceed.

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                Andrew Top contributor @Buckle8711
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                @Buckle8711 No guest tools.... OpenSolaris does include Xen drivers but I don't know if they have been updated. I don't seem them loading.

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                  Buckle8711 @Andrew
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                  I've hit a blocker in my migration to xcp-ng. I'm using OmniOS as a lightweight file server with Napp-it management interface.

                  I reached a point where I needed to add two additional VIF's to support some additional VLANs bring the OmniOS VM total to four. Unfortunately only the first two are mapped to devices in OmniOS. Open to any ideas here.

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                    Andrew Top contributor @Buckle8711
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                    @Buckle8711 I see that too. QEMU is only started with two interfaces passed to the guest. I don't know if that's because of the lack of tools or native drivers or some other config issue.

                    @olivierlambert XCP/Xen/Qemu expert question: Why does qemu start with only two interfaces when more are configured in XO?
                    qemu-dm-7 -machine pc-i440fx-2.10,accel=xen ... -device e1000,netdev=tapnet1,mac=5a:7f:c3:ba:04:d6,addr=5,rombar=0 -netdev tap,id=tapnet1,fd=7 -device e1000,netdev=tapnet0,mac=8e:68:02:55:da:c7,addr=4,rombar=0 -netdev tap,id=tapnet0,fd=8 ...
                    Where's the third and fourth? I see other VMs with more. Is it a template or vm-param issue?

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                      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                      Ping @Teddy-Astie if you know the best person internally to take a look at this

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                        Teddy Astie Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @Andrew
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                        @Andrew said in OmniOS / Illumos / Solaris as a guest - not working:

                        @olivierlambert XCP/Xen/Qemu expert question: Why does qemu start with only two interfaces when more are configured in XO?
                        qemu-dm-7 -machine pc-i440fx-2.10,accel=xen ... -device e1000,netdev=tapnet1,mac=5a:7f:c3:ba:04:d6,addr=5,rombar=0 -netdev tap,id=tapnet1,fd=7 -device e1000,netdev=tapnet0,mac=8e:68:02:55:da:c7,addr=4,rombar=0 -netdev tap,id=tapnet0,fd=8 ...
                        Where's the third and fourth? I see other VMs with more. Is it a template or vm-param issue?

                        These are the same "interfaces" just plugged differently to the guest (e.g tapnet0 exposed as e1000 and "tap" and tapnet1 exposed as e1000 and "tap" too).

                        You have 4 interfaces configured ?

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                          Andrew Top contributor @Teddy Astie
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                          @Teddy-Astie Yes...
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