[OpenIndiana-discuss] An installation report and a few questions from a Solaris neophyte.

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hi.

On 05/08/18 07:17 AM, Lazarus Long wrote:
>   Greetings,
> 

> Is there a preferred VNC server I should install or will ssh be "good
> enough" for remote administration of the system?

There's x11/server/xvnc (Tiger VNC). But usually servers don't have GUI 
apps installed, and ssh is enough.

> 
> When I do 'pkg search libvirt' and 'pkg search virt-manager' I can see:
> 
> pkg.fmri   set    openindiana.org/system/library/libvirt
> pkg:/system/library/libvirt at 0.5.11-2015.0.2.0
> 
> and
> 
> pkg.fmri   set    openindiana.org/desktop/virt-manager
> pkg:/desktop/virt-manager at 0.6.1-2015.0.2.0
> 
> However I think that these are pkg categories since I can't install them.
> Are there other packages I should be searching for in order to get libvirt
> up and running for remote KVM management or will I have to do everything
> via command line?

IIRC, these packages were coming from closed consolidation and are 
removed now, what you see is 'obsolete' packages, they make existing 
systems to uninstall them on upgrade.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department