Running OmniOS - churchers/vm-bhyve GitHub Wiki
OmniOS developmented is continued as OmniOSce with support from the OmniOS Community and Foundation. There is no need to modify the installation medium anymore, which was required by an older OmniOS release (checkout older revisions of this page).
Stable releases come out approximately every six months and are supported for a year after release. It's recommended to checkout the official OmniOSce download page.
vm iso https://downloads.omniosce.org/media/stable/omniosce-r151028b.iso
vm create omniosce
OmniOSce supports the virtio-net driver, which provides
much better performance than the e1000 one:
loader="uefi"
graphics="yes"
network0_type="virtio-net"
Start the installation, and follow the instructions based on the installer or on the OmniOSce installation walk-through.
vm install omniosce omnios-r151040g.iso
Connect to the vnc viewer to follow the installation walk-through on:
0.0.0.0:5900
When you selected your disk and get to the ZFS Pool options, you need to set the sector size on 4K.
When installing OmniOS with a disk image backed by a file i get the following error (February 2020):
Creating root pool with: zpool create -f rpool c1t0d0
internal error: Argument out of domain
To fix this issue, i need to create the pool with a different ashift argument:
- select
3 Shell (for manual rpool creation) - create the pool:
zpool create -o ashift=12 rpool c1t0d0 - back to the install menu:
exit - proceed the installation
2 Install OmniOS straight on to a preconfigured rpool
Since the last release, it is no longer necessary to use the serial console. You can use a vnc viewer via the uefi-loader. However, if you prefer serial console, you can enable it as follows:
The last installer step allow you to get a shell prompt to customize your installation, use this menu entry: Shell (for post-install ops on /mnt.
The first line configures loader to use the serial console only and the remaining commands change the default OS console to ttya.
echo -h > /mnt/boot/config
cat << EOM > /mnt/boot/conf.d/serial
console="ttya,text"
os_console="ttya"
ttya-mode="115200,8,n,1,-"
EOM