[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hypervisor support

[Tony Brian Albers]

Thanks everyone,

I'm off to installing OI on some hardware now(been running it as a vm
for a long time).

/tony



On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 20:49 +0100, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
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