Virtual machines with the guest operating system Solaris 10 may experience kernel panic on systems with AMD processors. Kernel panic has been seen in Solaris 10 9/10 (Update 9) and Solaris 10 8/11 (Update 10).
Workaround: To work around this issue:
During the installation or first time boot up, edit the grub menu and append the
-kd
kernel boot parameter.Continue with the boot to run the Solaris kmdb. When the following screen prompt is displayed:
Welcome to kmdb [0]>
Enter the command:
cmi_no_init/W 1
Enter the following to continue the installation or system boot:
:c
After Solaris is installed and booted up, append the following line to the /etc/system file to make this change persistent across system reboot.
set cmi_no_init = 1
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