[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions - 2

[Judah Richardson]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 9:43 AM Judah Richardson <judahrichardson at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 7:51 AM Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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>> Thanx for all your help, guys. I have read all your answers, but need to
>> check a few things up before finally migrating to OI.
>> Question 1) I have messed up my email settings to this group. But as I
>> understood it: when someone replies to my question, I will get an email and
>> I just "reply to all", and my answer will show up in the OI mail list for
>> everyone to see? Is this correctly understood? (I am not used to mail
>> lists).
>>
> Yes, hitting Reply All works for me in Gmail.
>
> Question 2) Just to double check: Does OI support UEFI installations? In
>> the manual it says OI only supports BIOS installations.
>
> You should believe the manual. And my own experience when I last tried it
> this year. The *installer* supports (requires?) UEFI, but the actual OS
> requires legacy boot.
>
> Can someone confirm? This might be useful to record, for futures questions
>> from users.
>> Question 3) It is still unclear to me if I could install OI as BIOS by
>> removing all disks except one. After the OI installation, I remove all
>> disks except one and install Win10 as UEFI. Then I insert all disks and
>> choose via boot menu (F11) to boot Win10 UEFI, or OI BIOS. Has anyone
>> tested this? If not, I totally understand! :)
>>
> Based on our discussion so far, at this point you're best off trying that
> yourself if you want to find out if it works.
>
> Question 4) It seems that it is problematic to dual boot OI BIOS, and
>> Win10 UEFI, even on different disks on the same PC. It should be avoided if
>> possible.
>>
> Correct.
>
> Therefore I came up with an alternative solution instead. The main thing
>> is, I want to use OI as a backend (because Solaris is more stable than any
>> other OS I tried), and then use Win10 for gaming. Instead of dual bootingh
>> as in Q3), maybe this setup is possible instead:
>> I install OI on bare metal. Then I use KVM and Qemu to install Win10 as a
>> Virtual Machine, and I do passthrough of my Geforce GTX 1070 Ti. I have a
>> Xeon E3-1245v3 cpu which has integrated graphics, namely HD P4600. This
>> way, OI gets the IGP running VESA driver - which is totally fine as I only
>> work in OI. Win10 VM will get the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti when I want to game.
>> This setup might be less problematic than Q3?
>>
> I don't know. As far as home virtualization is concerned, r/homelab is the
> best place to ask that question IMO.
>
Forgot to add: you can also use Proxmox to run both Windows 10 and OI in
separate VMs with GPU passthrough for Windows 10. I do believe that's
possible, but I don't know exactly how to do it because I have no firsthand
Proxmox experience. You can ask at r/homelab or r/Proxmox on Reddit.

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> Is this setup possible? Are there limitations specific to OI that I should
>> know, for instance, maybe OI KVM does not allow passthrough of GPUs?
>>
> See above.
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> Question 5) @Peter Tribble, so you are saying that this will also fail?-
>> Create a zpool in Solaris 11.3 (zpool version 28, ZFS version 5)- Import
>> the zpool into OI 2020.10- Copy data to the zpool using zfs send recv-
>> Import zpool into Solaris 11.3. Will this last step also fail?
>>
> You can try this in the OI live USB and see how it goes.
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