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

[Carl Brewer]

Thanks, I'll have a look.  Do you know if it can run Virtualbox?

On 22 April 2015 7:10:31 PM AEST, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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