Solaris 11.4 on Kubevirt

[Zied Fakhfakh]

Hello,

I was able to install Solais 11.4.212 x86_64, on openshift virtualization, so kubevirt.

I wish we can add this as supported/available OS on Kubevirt.

I have the process fully reproductible and without issues.

how can I proceed, if possible and what should I do for that ?

Kind regards,

Zied.

[Itamar Holder]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 at 13:17, Zied Fakhfakh <fz...@dottn.com> wrote:

Hello,

I was able to install Solais 11.4.212 x86_64, on openshift virtualization, so kubevirt.

I wish we can add this as supported/available OS on Kubevirt.

Hey Zied!

Thanks for sharing this - great to hear you got Solaris 11.4 running on KubeVirt.

Could you clarify what you mean by adding Solaris as a "supported/available OS"? KubeVirt is OS-agnostic by design - any guest OS that runs on QEMU/KVM should work. Therefore, I'm not aware of a formal list of supported guest operating systems.

That said, there are a few ways you could make your work available to other users:
- Contributing a blog post documenting the installation process and any quirks.

- Adding a VM template to [common-templates](https://github.com/kubevirt/common-templates) with recommended defaults for Solaris.

Would you be interested in these? Happy to point you in the right direction.

Thanks!
Itamar

 

I have the process fully reproductible and without issues.

how can I proceed, if possible and what should I do for that ?

Kind regards,

Zied.

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[Lee Yarwood]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 at 12:18, 'Itamar Holder' via kubevirt-dev
<kubevi...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 at 13:17, Zied Fakhfakh <fz...@dottn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was able to install Solais 11.4.212 x86_64, on openshift virtualization, so kubevirt.
>>
>> I wish we can add this as supported/available OS on Kubevirt.
>
>
> Hey Zied!
>
> Thanks for sharing this - great to hear you got Solaris 11.4 running on KubeVirt.
>
> Could you clarify what you mean by adding Solaris as a "supported/available OS"? KubeVirt is OS-agnostic by design - any guest OS that runs on QEMU/KVM should work. Therefore, I'm not aware of a formal list of supported guest operating systems.
>
> That said, there are a few ways you could make your work available to other users:
> - Contributing a blog post documenting the installation process and any quirks.
> - Adding a VM template to [common-templates](https://github.com/kubevirt/common-templates) with recommended defaults for Solaris.

Adding a preference to
https://github.com/kubevirt/common-instancetypes/tree/main/preferences
would also be great if Solaris requires specific changes to a VM/VMI.

Cheers,

Lee

[Zied Fakhfakh]

Hi, 

Thank you Itamar and Lee for your input.

Will do both, a blog post and a preference.

I know where to go for the preferences, if Itamar could put me on the way for publishing a blog post.

Zied.

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[doll...@redhat.com]

Hi,

Blog posts are published on https://kubevirt.io/blogs/

They can be submitted with a pull request on https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt.github.io/tree/main/_posts/

Regards,

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