Freshly imported Solaris 10 VM refuses to boot

[Tronmch2]

That's about the size of it, I get a "critical error" popup and my options are to terminate the VM or leave it up for debugging.

I imported it from the "Solaris 10 1/13 Admin VM" template VM that is on the Oracle network...

There was at least one oddity in the ova import: The VM import somehow thought the ova specified something on the order of 2 *TB* of RAM.

I'm currently re-downloading the ova from Oracle.

[Tronmch2]

Update: Even a fresh .ova download has "issues". Also, I get the same weird RAM amount behavior importing the Solaris 11 Admin VM template either. Since I'm pulling that template off a network share, the import is still progressing.

[scottgus1]

The log shows a misconfigured RAM setting:

00:00:04.802389 Host RAM: 32574MB (31.8GB) total, 8868MB (8.6GB) available
00:00:05.031100 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0, 0 B)

Slide that slider up a tad more. 2GB might be OK, or check what the VM is supposed to have had on the website specs.

[Tronmch2]

When I redid my import, where it insisted that the ovf file wanted (this time) 1.6TB, I set it to 4096 MB and let it import... I looked at the ovf file... It's set to want 4GB of RAM.

Looking at the system details, it came in with 4 MB of RAM. I set it to 4GB and it is now booting.

This looks like a significant issue with ova imports.

[Tronmch2]

Created ticket 21432

[Tronmch2]

Interestingly, 7.0.6a doesn't seem to have this problem. At least not on Linux... Will try Windows shortly...