Re: Fwd: Moving ZFS root popol to a virtual server was: ZFS: Suspended Pool due to allegedly uncorrectable I/O error

On 8/25/24 21:58, Pamela Ballantyne wrote:
> There is yet no colocated server. As I said, I'm using VMs on VBox to see
> what I have to look forward to if and when the colo happens.
> 
> The initial reason for posting here was that there might be some bugs in
> ZFS. The first was the mysterious non-disk disk crash, which now seems not
> to be a bug. The second was root replication from a clean install to a
> blank VM, requiring a change in a shift to add another disk to the pool;
> that could be a problem with VBox, of course, or even the original FreeBSD
> install package.  I have no idea where to reach developers these days.
> 
> So far, there's no issue with using the filesystem. Of course, I'm happy to
> provide the command output if you think it will help isolate this problem.
> Just let me know.


Have you tried the command 'VBoxManage convertfromraw ...' to convert a 
raw disk image into a VirtualBox disk image?

https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/user/vboxmanage-convertfromraw.html


David