[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Intro questions

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks for the information on OmniOS, Gary.

Just looked at it and it seems that operations were suspended on April 21,
2017.

In the past, I can already use something like Hyper-V, Proxmox, and others
to run a GUI application in a container and then remote into it with RDP
and VNC, for example from another machine. My twist on the project is that
I would like to use one of the IllumOS dialects such that I could have one
of the zones/containers have an X-Server that would passthrough to the
actual video hardware so that I could use a VNC viewer, for example, on the
same system as the other containers that are running so that I could remote
into them as needed all from a single system. I did not want to have one
system for the running containers/zones and another for the remote viewer,
if at all possible.

Just some thoughts, though.
Cheers,
Lonnie

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:

> Lonnie,
>
> One distro that may work for you is OmniOS CE: https://www.omniosce.org/
>
> Like SmartOS, it can run LX (Linux) zones and uses pkgsrc which provides
> basic x-windows support from that.  (I've run apps like xterm etc. from a
> remote desktop).  Unlike OpenIndiana, native desktop functionality is
> limited.
>
> Gary
>
>
> On 10/23/2017 12:35 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > Thanks for responding to my inquiry about OpenIndiana.
> >
> > Basically, I really like the small footprint of SmartOS and its ability
> to
> > be a good hypervisor (Linux and Windows) but for a desktop project, I
> > wanted to be able to have a minimal OS that basically just run the
> > containers/zones and then have one of the containers have a X-Server such
> > that the base OS does not have applications installed in it. Then the GUI
> > zone could be passed through to the video driver thus all of the X-Server
> > stuff is also in a container.
> >
> > This was an idea that I have been playing around with for some time as
> was
> > going to look into possibly using SmartOS, but it is really not set up
> for
> > this and which is where I started digging into Illumos and subsequently
> > OpenIndiana to see if something like this might make a good starting
> point
> > for this work.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Lonnie
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/23/17 06:21 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings All,
> >>>
> >>> I have recently been playing around a little with SmartOS for running
> >>> containers and hypervizing VM's for which it seems to work pretty well,
> >>> and
> >>> wanted to also investigate the desktop side of things as well so I hope
> >>> that someone on the list will answer a few rudimentary questions to
> get me
> >>> going with my OI explorations.
> >>>
> >>> I know that SmartOS can be a hypervisor to run the Linux, and Windows
> OS's
> >>> as VM's in zones, but I was wondering if OpenIndiana was able to
> hypervize
> >>> these OS's as well?
> >>>
> >> Yes, it can. illumos-kvm is not a part of illumos-gate, but is a
> separate
> >> codebase, developed mainly by Joyent. We compile and deliver it, but KVM
> >> benefits from several system features (the one which comes to my mind is
> >> VND), which are available in SmartOS, but not in other distributions
> >> (AFAIK). OI can run KVM guests on modern Intel hardware, but SmartOS
> can be
> >> more efficient, for example, in network virtualization.
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >> Alexander Pyhalov,
> >> system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
> >>
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