Hi all, I have a new laptop now running Hipster (in a VBox 4.3.10 over a Windows 7 host, not in the least due to better hardware support, and also due to this box being a corporate workhorse).
I'm trying to test and/or use David Mackay's lx brand revival, pulling the code from his illumos-gate fork over the vanilla code. As of yesterday, it merges and builds cleanly by the way, and only takes 3 hours to do so on this laptop (VM on 2 cores with just 2Gb RAM, but with a Samsung 840 Pro as the OS drive). After completing a build I am suddenly stuck trying to install the newer illumos-gate packages into a new BE: their versioning (0.151.1.100 per my arbitrarily big choice) is less than Hipster's (2014.*, without even a leading zero which is auto-prepended to the values I provide in illumos.sh)... Should I have to somehow enforce larger 2014.* version numbers, or is there a way (onu?) to override existing packages and force installation of their "namesakes" from the on-nightly repository regardless of the version numbers? Also, leaping a bit ahead: would/should KVM work in Hipster out of the box, including the case when Hipster itself is virtualized by a hypervisor, or would I need to compile some other patches into my illumos-gate? Specifically, I am interested in software emulation for the VM anyway (ARM Linux via QEMU)?.. And also, did anyone try (and succeed) to set up cross-compilation of Linux ARM programs running the process under illumos/OI/Hipster, whether in native illumos zones or in lx-branded ones, or should I look forward to necessarily running a Linux VM as well for that task? Thanks for any hints, //Jim Klimov _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
