[OmniOS-discuss] two error messages during installation

[Eric Sproul]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp at gmail.com> wrote:
> KVM : insufficent hardware support (lacking ept)

The KVM port to illumos (https://github.com/joyent/illumos-kvm)
requires EPT.  This means, effectively, Intel CPUs from the Nehalem
family onward.

>
> the system is workstation 490 Dell precision and i have been using it with
> debian visualization for KVM for years with no issue. it is VT enable.

Your CPU must have the second-generation VT support (VMX, which
includes EPT) introduced in Nehalem to work with illumos KVM.

> Second message is :
>
> build_devlink_list: readlink failed for /dev/zcons/..........
>
>
> when installation reach 4% it trow this error. then things went fine i can
> login to the omni console
>
> is this something i have to worry!

No, this is simply noise due to the fact that some non-global zones
were present on the system used to generate the installation media,
and their device entries got copied into the install image.  You can
ignore these messages.

Eric