Comments on: Formatting disks for Solaris https://virtuallyfun.com/2010/10/03/formatting-disks-for-solaris/ Fun with Virtualization Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2010/10/03/formatting-disks-for-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-226949 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:18:23 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=281#comment-226949 In reply to Joshua.

Those fat mounts are read only. You need either mtools or something to support fat disks/partitions.

I don’t think native Solaris does so.

]]> By: Joshua https://virtuallyfun.com/2010/10/03/formatting-disks-for-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-226943 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:37:29 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=281#comment-226943 I know this is an old blog post, but I was wondering if you knew how to go about “formatting” a disk that’s mounted through qemu as a directory? I know you can mount directory trees using the -drive file=fat:rw:[folder] flag. Solaris (2.7) sees this as a “disk”, but I can’t mount it or format it, so I’m unsure how to handle it.

I’m just trying to create a share folder between my Windows 10 host and Solaris 2.7 VM.

]]> By: Basil https://virtuallyfun.com/2010/10/03/formatting-disks-for-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-19485 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:56:02 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=281#comment-19485 I was referred to this page by Artom Tarasenko.

I am trying, ultimately, to run Solaris 2.5.1 with Qemu 1.0.1 in Xubuntu 12.04. I am having issues with creating a proper disk image. I try to format the disk image with Solaris 2.5.1 (outside of 10,11 which do not load in Qemu, this is the only version of Solaris I have, however I *may* be able to pull some strings and get 8). The disk formatting fails.

I launch qemu as such:
qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -m 256 -startdate “2009-12-13” -nographic -hdb Solaris251.iso -hdc 32GB.disk

Then, I boot into single user mode and run the format command, following the above steps. An interesting thing to note is that, when given the option to select a disk, it seems the 32GB disk is listed twice. I then follow the steps listed above. Before the label is applied, a message is given saying “No defined partition tables.” and when I do try to apply the label, it fails. The error message is:

Illegal request during read: block 0 (0x0) (0/0/0)
ASC: 0x21 ASCQ: 0x0
Warning: error reading backup label.
WARNING: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0 (sd0):
Error for Command: read(10) Error Level: Fatal
Requested Block: 0 Error Block: 0
Vendor: QEMU Serial Number:
Sense Key: Illegal Request
ASC: 0x21 (logical block address out of range), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0

How can I fix this? Is another version of Solaris (such as 8, like you have demonstrated) required to do this or can I do it with 2.5.1? Is there yet another way to format this disk image?

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