Hello everyone! I'm currently configuring some OmniOS servers (bare metal and VPS) to increase my knowledge and application of the OS.

NetCUP and Contabo VPSes are fine, but it seems there's a problem with Hetzner: it seems that OmniOS is unable to detect the virtual disk, so it's both unable to install and, if installed via qemu, it will start a boot loop as the kernel is unable to mount the pool. Is there any workaround or anything I could do to help you to debug this?

FreeBSD and OpenBSD have no problems while NetBSD (that I tried some months ago)seemed to have the same behaviour

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stefanobsdcafe: maybe the emulated storage controller is not supported by illumos? I think it's pretty unusual, but look at this list: illumos.org/hcl

warden: I'll try to identify the emulated storage controller. The disk driver is virtio.

Ok, maybe I found the problem: The Virtio-SCSI supported by Illumos is 1af4:1004 while the Virtio SCSI controller at Hetzner is (from Linux): root@rescue ~ # lspci -nn | grep SCSI

06:00.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio 1.0 SCSI [1af4:1048] (rev 01)

As I can't change it from Hetzner, it would be great, as a test test, to change/add it into the OmniOS source - I could also recompile it and generate the ISO as I'm currently running OmniOS on a quite powerful bare metal server (128 GB Ram, etc). I can try, but I've never recompiled OmniOS so this will be a good way to learn something new about it.

Now the question is: which file should I modify? I've tried to search for 1af4 but I can't find it inside the sources, but I've never modified any Illumos/OmniOS code

I've found a reference on /etc/driver_aliases - I'll try to install via qemu and add there.

I've tried to add that to /etc/driver_aliases but, at reboot, it didn't work:

- WARNING: vioscsid: PCI Revision 1 incorrect for legacy virtio device

I'm not sure that our virtio driver framework currently supports post-1.0 devices

(without the legacy/transitional fallback mode)

On the plus side, I think it should be possible to add that support with minimal changes to the actual specific drivers (e.g., viofi, vioblk, vioscsi, etc)

*vioif

jclulow: I think that would be great. At least in Europe, Hetzner VPS servers are cheap and reliable - they'd be a great hosting solution for OmniOS. Unfortunately, they don't allow any configuration. NetCup works perfectly.

hi all

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