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

[Jonathan Adams]

As far as I know, I run the Solaris VirtualBox without trouble on my OI
hipster, and I've seen discussions on the use of VirtualBox on XStreamOS.

Gabriele Bulfon is the Lead on the Sonicle project, and you'll find her on
these forums, and on their own forums.  She's very helpful.

Jon

On 22 April 2015 at 11:54, Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:

> 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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