Is it possible to boot from a passthrough lsi2008 under esxi?

Posted by Kurt on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Kurt
Published on 2012-02-18T00:40:49Z Indexed on 2013/11/04 15:58 UTC
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I currently have Solaris 11 Express running on bare metal. I'd like to convert the machine to an ESXI host and run the existing os as a virtual machine.

I have ESXI setup, the virtual machine made, if I boot the vm from the recovery disk the drives and lsi2008 controller is visible. Everything looks like it should work, but the vm bios does not seem to try and boot from the controller.

Is this just impossible?

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