[OmniOS-discuss] install OmniOS into a new boot environment

Dan McDonald danmcd at omniti.com
Fri Nov 13 20:36:49 UTC 2015


> On Nov 13, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I am migrating a couple of machines from OI to OmniOS.
> 
> Is it possible to install omnios into a new boot environment so I can keep both the install of OI and then boot between them?

Wow.  I don't know.  It's *theoretically possible* but I think you'd have to install OmniOS on a VM, zfs snapshot-and-send the rpool/ROOT/<be> to the OI box, and manually construct an OmniOS BE around that received ZFS snapshot, including adding GRUB entries.

Haven't tried it myself.

Dan



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