@ptribble @sommerfeld thanks, finding a VPS host with custom ISO support was a good suggestion

Hetzner requires opening a support ticket, providing them with the link to your ISO. They uploaded the latest OmniOS LTS for me this morning

Now trying to get it to work. I've booted into the installer, but it isn't seeing any disks (diskinfo)

I'm assuming this is not gonna work, but trying to investigate a bit more

My Hetzner VPS is an AMD variant (EPYC Rome v4). So I ordered and booted another one of those, in Debian, and also an Intel Xeon (Skylake) one to compare

Using lshw on both platforms tells me I'm dealing with a qemu virtual disk on an emulated SCSI interface

Maybe the OmniOS installer doesn't know how to deal with that? On the other hand I'm guessing this is really standard stuff

I just noticed it says driver=virtio-pci, maybe that's a problem

I have a Qemu line that boots (using Linux) if you want it. I'm not using virtio-pci. It sees the disk but I think I made the disk too small. It goes to the part where it says it's trying to make it bootable.

I'll try again with a 4g disk.

Older OmniOS ISOs didn't have the virtio drivers preinstalled, but I thought that had been corrected a while ago

Working. atr2.ath.cx/~jayjwa/omni-qemu.txt

jayjwa: I was able to install a working VM on my Fedora box at home too

jayjwa: but the problem described above is on a Hetzner VPS, I don't have control over the host there to issue any qemu commands

Another thing I noticed is that dladm output is empty too, so also no network interfaces found

man.omnios.org/man4d lists vioif and vioscsi for some virtio drivers

vioif and vioscsi are present in /kernel/drv/amd64, do I need to do anything to manually load those from shell in the installer?

If they're present, they'll be loaded

I noticed the manual references a "virtio" framework driver too, there is no "virtio" file in that directory in my install ISO

It should be at /kernel/misc/amd64/virtio I think

That's right, I can find it there. Well, then I'm stumped with my Hetzner attempt so far, moving on to one of the other suggestions

I must be doing something wrong, I ran into the exact same situation when trying Vultr

No disk or network interface visible

I uploaded omnios-r151054.iso, mounted that via the menu, then rebooted, in both cases

Maybe I need a different image?

The "igb" device shows under dladm show-phys as igb0 and I can ping it from the host.