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

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 9:17 PM David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
wrote:

> 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.htm
> <https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/user/vboxmanage-convertfromraw.html>
>
>
There is no raw disk image to convert. All the disks start as VBox disk
images.