[OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

[Jonathan Adams]

If you need a graphical desktop; It might be worthwhile looking at
XStreamOS from Sonicle, they have done loads of work on the desktop
software stack, and have Libreoffice and Firefox, etc all working.

I however have stuck with OpenIndiana, but I'm using the hipster branch,
but it is essentially "beta" where no guarantee is made on breakage.

On 22 April 2015 at 01:42, Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I have been a _long_ time user of OpenSolaris, then OI, now stuck on oi
> 151a8 for some time as pkg updates stopped working after that release -
> some careless dependancy mess just broke it and it was too hard to sort out.
>
> Anyway ... I use it to run Virtualbox (GUI) and some smb/nfs shares on my
> home LAN, and the box is getting a little old.  So I'm due to update the
> hardware soon.  VB isn't perfect on this platform, I get network hangs
> every random interval (so I reboot the server every night to work around
> this - urgh ...), but it works and does what I want.
>
> What's the recommendation of the list with regards to updating this to a
> new distribution?  Hipster?  Or one of the others, nexenta etc?  All I want
> is the Virtualbox GUI, Virtualbox and SMB/NFS shares on top of ZFS. I don't
> want to use xen or any of the other virtualisers out there at the moment, I
> am happy and comfortable with VB and want to stick with it.  It mostly
> "just works" and my scripts are written around it. I am currently running
> an Intel i5 CPU with 32GB of RAM and a RAIDZ and mirror (mirror for root,
> RZ for a big fileshare).
>
> It will be a mostly implement-and-rust box, I will update the OS if it's
> convenient (as OS/OI was until the pkg updates broke at 151aX), but will
> mostly leave it alone.
>
> thanks!
>
> Carl
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