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Aahhh! Obviously. That's not at all misleading, is it??! I think that I did that as well, during one of my many repeated initial installs, but I can't say for sure. It would be a good thing to grey out, mark as 'unknown', or something, the CD field in the settings display for the vm. The current sit...

It did show activity but it shouldn't have because I had (tried to) un-mounted it and the vb manager showed no attached image.

That's right, I was using a CD image during the initial install phase, then I unmounted it on the vm window menu, then I rebooted. Instead of booting from the system vdisk, it rebooted from the iso image, which should not have been possible.

I am installing sol10u5 in a vm. After booting from the iso image and running the install, I need to un-mount the CD and re-boot. Without a CD image attached, the vm should boot from the vm vdisk. However, even though the vm settings show no cd mounted, it reboots from the previously mounted cd and ...