Booting Solaris 11.3 (was Re: Booting r298488 as Xen Dom0 may break ZFS pool?)

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote:

> > > > ("Intel text-only image").
> > > 
> > > I don't think you can boot Solaris as a PV guest anymore, you should instead 
> > > boot it as a HVM guest. You will have to remove the kernel and ramdisk 
> > > options and instead add builder="hvm" (that you have left commented out).
> > 
> > However supported or not, I think it should not crash a whole host system?...
> 
> Certainly. I assumed that you meant it crashed the VM, not the whole host. 
> Can you please provide the trace of the crash?

So, I tried it again ... it just quietly rebooted. No panic. 
During the boot I got the well-known

ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable
ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable
ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable

Can't find /boot/zfsloader

...

Marcin