[OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-10-17 12:46 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-10-17 21:11, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>> I decided to just go with the iscsi targets for now.
>
> I wonder if they too have implications of access rights
> (to device nodes). BTW, what do you use as initiator -
> the VirtualBox itself, or the OS it runs on (and provides
> a local block device to the vbox)? I think both ways are
> possible...

I use the built in vbox initiator.

Not the highest performing setup, but these are small business services 
and disk IO isn't the biggest issue we have.

I am using it for automated backup system.  I virtualize their servers 
into vbox, pause the VM(s), zfs snapshot, send to a different pool and 
send another copy offsite.

have a great day!

Geoff