[OmniOS-discuss] Setup problems with newest OmniOS 151021 on ESXi 6.5

Dan McDonald danmcd at omniti.com
Fri Apr 14 14:14:55 UTC 2017


> On Apr 14, 2017, at 6:20 AM, Guenther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de> wrote:
> 
> I found a strange behaviour with the newest 151021 when I tried to setup on ESXi 6.5
> 
> I created a new VM (Solaris 11-64)  with a DVD device connected to the OS .iso.
> On first boot of the VM, the ESXi web console crashed completely with a required reload.
> 
> After reload, the VM console shows a
> - configuring devices
> - ..requesting system maintenance, press ctrl-d to continue
> 
> After ctrl-d I was able to select a bootdisk and install OmniOS
> After setup, reboot work
> 
> A power off/on and the ESXi webconsole crashes again (mostly, not always)

Are you saying that older r151021s did not have this problem?

I know Fusion has a "black screen" problem with Loader, GRUB, et. al, but that's new, and only with the combination of the latest Fusion and latest MacOS X.

Dan



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