(This is a guest post from Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)

Ever since inception of Illumos I always wanted to get it working on ARM / AARCH64. But being under development it was somewhat difficult task. I previously tried building arm64-gate but there always was something not quite right. Turns out OmniOS has a ready to run image that one can boot under QEMU!

Download file from here: https://downloads.omnios.org/media/braich/

They also have a run shell command: https://downloads.omnios.org/media/braich/run

This is mine:

qemu-system-aarch64 \
        -nographic \
        -machine virt \
        -accel tcg \
        -m 3G \
        -smp 2 \
        -cpu cortex-a53 \
        -bios u-boot.bin \
        -netdev vmnet-shared,id=net0 \
        -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
        -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
        -drive file=braich-151055.raw,format=raw,id=hd0,if=none \
        -device qemu-xhci \
        -device usb-kbd \
        -device usb-tablet \
        -semihosting-config enable=on,target=native

I hope they continue development and at some point I will be able to run this on my home server / NAS !