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

[Geoff Nordli]

On 15-11-13 12:36 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>> On Nov 13, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
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>> Hi.
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>> 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
>

Thanks Dan, I will do some testing to see how it works.

Geoff