[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hypervisor support

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

We have both Virtualbox and KVM packaged on OI. Virtualbox as the GUI
and Desktop Solution with Management GUI and KVM as headless Server VM
Manager. We also have a zone brand kvm which manages starting KVM inside
a dedicated Zone for better protection and resource control. It also
manages to invoke Qemu/KVM in a way to expose VNC via socket.

You can see the dokumentation from our friends over in the OmiOSCE
Community which originally wrote the zone brand. [0]

[0] https://omniosce.org/info/bhyve_kvm_brand.html

Greetings
Till

On 12.03.19 10:20, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On 03/12/19 07:47, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> At present, is it possible to use a hypervisor like virtualbox or kvm
>> on OI?
> Yes, I have used both (but not simultaneously). Right now VBox is in use:
> 
> :; pkg list virtualbox
> NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION     IFO
> system/virtualbox                                 5.2.24-2018.0.0.0     i--
> 
> KVM/Qemu is also available:
> :; pkg search -r qemu
> ...
> pkg:/system/qemu/kvm at 0.0.1.20160303-2018.0.0.2
> 
> If "on OI" means that...
> 
>>
>> Together with it's graphical frontend like virt-manager?
> I guess, there is NO virt-manager available
> 
>>
>> And how about graphical console access? Doable?
> Depends what "graphical console access" means to you...
> 
> If you start Unix like guest, you can do sort of graphical accesses (VNC
> for example is available in both VBox and KVM; or ssh + Xserver, etc...)
> Also, Windows boot is possible.
> 
> 
>>
>> thx,
>>
>> /tony
>>
>>
> HTH,
> 
> With best regards.
>