[OmniOS-discuss] Omnios, VMware fusion

[Jan Holtzhausen]

No sweat, I just jotted down a solution for the OSX/fusion crowd in case
anyone needed it.
On 18 Aug 2013 4:14 PM, "Chris Nehren" <cnehren+omnios-discuss at omniti.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:54:21 +0200, Jan Holtzhausen wrote:
> > Omni needs a virtual floppy drive to install.
> > In OSX, open a terminal to a directory that fusion can browse to
> (~/Desktop
> > is fine)
> > ~> dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img
> > There's your blank image.
> > Now add a floppy device in fusion, point it to floppy.img.
> > Go ahead and install on fusion.
>
> This is a known issue. See http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/VMwareNotes
> for our documentation of it.
>
> --
> Chris Nehren
> Site Reliability Engineer, OmniTI
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