Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing TrueType Fonts
1. Copy the ttf files to /usr/share/fonts Better create a folder inside /usr/share/fonts and store them there. 2. pkg install font-utilities (if not already installed) 3. Run mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts 4. Run mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts Well I think these commands are not necessary anymore as they were some sort of support files in order for X to be able to use them. For example there are no files fonts.dir and fonts.scale in my /usr/share/fonts/OpenType yet the fonts are usable. (OK some old applications like XMMS cannot use these fonts unless these file will not be there and I am not so sure whether this will make them usable.) 5. Run fc-cache /usr/share/fonts A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??
Is there a version of the Calibre ebook/epub doc converter for OpenIndiana? Or any other SW that can convert a PDF book to epub? Epub (or other ebook formats) are much more readable on smartphones than standard PDFs ususally are, due to the text reflow capability. So I'd like to be able to convert even large pdf docs to some ebook format, so I can take large manuals along on trips. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??
Hi Instead try the online service: http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub Ciao Paolo On 08/ 8/12 11:03 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Is there a version of the Calibre ebook/epub doc converter for OpenIndiana? Or any other SW that can convert a PDF book to epub? Epub (or other ebook formats) are much more readable on smartphones than standard PDFs ususally are, due to the text reflow capability. So I'd like to be able to convert even large pdf docs to some ebook format, so I can take large manuals along on trips. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Should ZFS clones inherit(clone) current settable attributes of origin datasets, or of their new hierarchical parents
Hello all, In the past days I've been doing some migration and reorganization of datasets (VM images, local zones and stuff), and in the process I used both dataset cloning and zfs-send|zfs-recv within the pool. This is on the old SXCE snv_117, so things might have got better in OI. As one of the goals of the data reorganization was to enforce some different compression (i.e. gzip-9 for data which was not touched for a long time, or for the golden-images of VMs/zones), I tracked the dataset attribute changes whenever a new dataset was spawned. It seems that changeable attributes such as compression are inherited from the new parent dataset during cloning, however they are enforced from the original dataset's values when I do a replication send (with zfs send -R). That is, if I had a gzip-9 compressed golden VM cloned into a pool hierarchy branch with different compression (off or lzjb), the new cloned dataset by default inherits this different compression setting; if I want it to remain gzip-9 - I have to do that explicitly. Is this by design? Does a snapshot which is the origin know of any such settings, so it can provide them to children in the first place - it seems to be so during replication-sends (though zfs send might query the live dataset instead)? Is it so in the current ZFS versions as well? One of the reasons I ask is because of my RFE to support hierarchical root filesystems in OI ( https://www.illumos.org/issues/829 ), which for the most part works out of the box (with some manual procedures) and allows to compress most of the FS with the bootloader not liking compressed roots; however cloned BEs' datasets become uncompressed by ZFS inheritance and thus the added value of the hierarchy is soon negligible (as BE clones often occur during updates, and the new software image is written to disk without compression). I wonder if it is possible to augment zfs clone with an option to replicate origin's changeable attributes (all and/or a list of ones we want), and use this feature in beadm? Thanks, //Jim Klimov ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance
Has anyone done any testing on the performance of an SSD for swap vs disk? I'm currently fully populated at 12 GB in my Z400. Thanks, Reg ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance
On 08/08/2012 16:47, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Has anyone done any testing on the performance of an SSD for swap vs disk? I'm currently fully populated at 12 GB in my Z400. That should work, but if you really need a fast SSD for regularily swapping, you may should start thinking about more memory... -- Dr.Udo GrabowskiInst.f.Meteorology a.Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT www-imk.fzk.de/asf/sat/grabowski/ www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technologyhttp://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing TrueType Fonts
On 08/ 7/12 11:49 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: 3. Run mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts 4. Run mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts Well I think these commands are not necessary anymore as they were some sort of support files in order for X to be able to use them. They are needed for the old X font system, the one in which you specify fonts with names like -microsoft-comic sans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 but are not needed for the modern font system (fontconfig freetype) used by most GNOME apps, in which fonts have more human readable names such as Comic Sans MS:style=Regular. Only the new system has antialiased fonts, so if you're seeing antialiased text you know which is in use. For deeper levels of detail, see: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/fonts/fonts.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote: On 08/08/2012 16:47, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Has anyone done any testing on the performance of an SSD for swap vs disk? I'm currently fully populated at 12 GB in my Z400. That should work, but if you really need a fast SSD for regularily swapping, you may should start thinking about more memory... I haven't done testing on OpenIndiana, but in my experience swap on an SSD is an order of magnitude faster than swap on HDD. Note that, as Udo pointed out, this is still an order of magnitude (or two) slower than additional RAM. If your workload is such that you have large chunks of memory that can be swapped out for extended periods of time, then an SSD will do this several times faster. However, if you have a program that is actively using more than the 12GB of RAM you have, you will kill your SSD (SSDs have a limited number of write cycles - each time you'd run the program, loads of data would hit the SSD) and won't get anywhere near the performance of actually having adequate memory. Jan ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance
Order of magnitude I already knew. I was hoping for measured data. I'm running Solaris 10 on this particular system. The OI box is a nettop for Internet access. I'm concerned w/ occasionally running jobs which exceed physical memory. At most I can only go up to 24 GB by replacing all the 2 GB DIMMS w/ 4 GB DIMMS. However, I'd not considered the problem of pathological paging patterns. On a long job one might well wear out an SSD in a single run which would not be helpful. I don't think I want to try to figure out what the paging patterns of a large solver like glpk are. Particularly because it almost certainly problem and option dependent. A dedicated pair of small, fast disks for swap is probably the best option. To the best of my knowledge Solaris will still interleave paging among multiple swap partitions on separate drives. This was something I routinely did on my systems for many years. IIRC two matched drives were almost twice as fast as one. It was essential that the drives have identical performance, otherwise it actually slowed the system down. I vaguely recall that more than two didn't improve performance, but it was a long time ago. I may not have had 4 identical drives. Have Fun! Reg --- On Wed, 8/8/12, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 10:39 AM On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote: On 08/08/2012 16:47, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Has anyone done any testing on the performance of an SSD for swap vs disk? I'm currently fully populated at 12 GB in my Z400. That should work, but if you really need a fast SSD for regularily swapping, you may should start thinking about more memory... I haven't done testing on OpenIndiana, but in my experience swap on an SSD is an order of magnitude faster than swap on HDD. Note that, as Udo pointed out, this is still an order of magnitude (or two) slower than additional RAM. If your workload is such that you have large chunks of memory that can be swapped out for extended periods of time, then an SSD will do this several times faster. However, if you have a program that is actively using more than the 12GB of RAM you have, you will kill your SSD (SSDs have a limited number of write cycles - each time you'd run the program, loads of data would hit the SSD) and won't get anywhere near the performance of actually having adequate memory. Jan ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance
many ssds carry 3-year warranties and report useable life via smart. if you are concerned about wearing them then buy a spare or two and rma them as they approach burn out. that is what i do :) Sent from Jasons' hand held On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: Order of magnitude I already knew. I was hoping for measured data. I'm running Solaris 10 on this particular system. The OI box is a nettop for Internet access. I'm concerned w/ occasionally running jobs which exceed physical memory. At most I can only go up to 24 GB by replacing all the 2 GB DIMMS w/ 4 GB DIMMS. However, I'd not considered the problem of pathological paging patterns. On a long job one might well wear out an SSD in a single run which would not be helpful. I don't think I want to try to figure out what the paging patterns of a large solver like glpk are. Particularly because it almost certainly problem and option dependent. A dedicated pair of small, fast disks for swap is probably the best option. To the best of my knowledge Solaris will still interleave paging among multiple swap partitions on separate drives. This was something I routinely did on my systems for many years. IIRC two matched drives were almost twice as fast as one. It was essential that the drives have identical performance, otherwise it actually slowed the system down. I vaguely recall that more than two didn't improve performance, but it was a long time ago. I may not have had 4 identical drives. Have Fun! Reg --- On Wed, 8/8/12, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 10:39 AM On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote: On 08/08/2012 16:47, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Has anyone done any testing on the performance of an SSD for swap vs disk? I'm currently fully populated at 12 GB in my Z400. That should work, but if you really need a fast SSD for regularily swapping, you may should start thinking about more memory... I haven't done testing on OpenIndiana, but in my experience swap on an SSD is an order of magnitude faster than swap on HDD. Note that, as Udo pointed out, this is still an order of magnitude (or two) slower than additional RAM. If your workload is such that you have large chunks of memory that can be swapped out for extended periods of time, then an SSD will do this several times faster. However, if you have a program that is actively using more than the 12GB of RAM you have, you will kill your SSD (SSDs have a limited number of write cycles - each time you'd run the program, loads of data would hit the SSD) and won't get anywhere near the performance of actually having adequate memory. Jan ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??
On 08/08/2012 05:03 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Is there a version of the Calibre ebook/epub doc converter for OpenIndiana? Or any other SW that can convert a PDF book to epub? Epub (or other ebook formats) are much more readable on smartphones than standard PDFs ususally are, due to the text reflow capability. So I'd like to be able to convert even large pdf docs to some ebook format, so I can take large manuals along on trips. Sadly I don't think it's been built on OI. There are Linux, OS X and windows version - I guess you could install Ubuntu inside KVM and try it there? It's an amazing program. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Ray Arachelian r...@arachelian.com wrote: On 08/08/2012 05:03 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Is there a version of the Calibre ebook/epub doc converter for OpenIndiana? Or any other SW that can convert a PDF book to epub? Epub (or other ebook formats) are much more readable on smartphones than standard PDFs ususally are, due to the text reflow capability. So I'd like to be able to convert even large pdf docs to some ebook format, so I can take large manuals along on trips. Sadly I don't think it's been built on OI. There are Linux, OS X and windows version - I guess you could install Ubuntu inside KVM and try it there? It's an amazing program. Just looked at it, it requires PyQT4 and that means QT4... Is there a prebuilt QT4? Francois ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??
Hi, On 08.08.2012 22:29, Francois Dion wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Ray Arachelian r...@arachelian.com wrote: On 08/08/2012 05:03 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Is there a version of the Calibre ebook/epub doc converter for OpenIndiana? Or any other SW that can convert a PDF book to epub? Epub (or other ebook formats) are much more readable on smartphones than standard PDFs ususally are, due to the text reflow capability. So I'd like to be able to convert even large pdf docs to some ebook format, so I can take large manuals along on trips. Sadly I don't think it's been built on OI. There are Linux, OS X and windows version - I guess you could install Ubuntu inside KVM and try it there? It's an amazing program. Just looked at it, it requires PyQT4 and that means QT4... Is there a prebuilt QT4? yes, there are gcc and Sun Studio stdcxx based in OpenIndiana SFE repo. I tried to built Calibre few times many months back but it has more dependencies you need to solve and I had not enough energy to finish it. I recommend to go with GCC builds of libraries in this case if somebody wants to do that. Francois Best regards, Milan ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Using a SAN on OpenIndiana
Hi All I'm using OI 151_a5 and have a query relating to SANs. There's a website called smallnetbuilder that I've stumbled across giving advice on many things, one of the articles is how to build a SAN. I've thought about building a smaller version of this for kicks more than anything but was wondering if anyone has mounted a fibre-channel SAN into OI, and if so, how easy is it? Many thanks and best regards, John. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Code Bounty (Active Directory Integration)
As may have become obvious from my last few posts we've been looking at Active Directory integration for the past few weeks (and pretty hard for the past week). Obviously the CIFS server integration with AD seems pretty reasonable straight out of the box, but other services that want to use AD user details (et. netatalk in our case - NetAFP have been very helpful in looking into this with us) seem to have pretty poor integration unless you go towards LDAP integration with AD (that means either modifying the AD schema or something like IDMU - which means touching the AD again). We have a pretty big interest in getting something working that doesn't involve touching the AD too much, as that can immediately put off the Windows admins we tend to deal with. Ideally something with a similar featureset to the Mac OS X AD plugin would be ideal (obviously that's a system we know well!). The OS X plugin doesn't require any changes to the AD schema for general operation and can immediately be used by other services/applications on the local system without any further work. If anyone is interested in looking into improving the AD integration in OpenIndiana, if you drop me an email we can discuss a project bounty on this. We've got a potentially reasonably large budget for funding work on this as we can see some business opportunities that this would make significantly easier. Thanks, James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using a SAN on OpenIndiana
( I need more than one english class per week, be patient ) Which kind of hardware and HBA you will use? I never configure SAN on OI but with Solaris itks really easy but the main problem are HBA models ( for me ) Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Movistar (http://www.movistar.com.ar) -Original Message- From: John McQuay j...@johnmcquay.co.uk Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 23:54:46 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Reply-To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using a SAN on OpenIndiana Hi All I'm using OI 151_a5 and have a query relating to SANs. There's a website called smallnetbuilder that I've stumbled across giving advice on many things, one of the articles is how to build a SAN. I've thought about building a smaller version of this for kicks more than anything but was wondering if anyone has mounted a fibre-channel SAN into OI, and if so, how easy is it? Many thanks and best regards, John. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Synchronizing Sun DHCP servers
Hello all, I wondered if the Sun DHCP server, also provided in OI, supports synchronization of instances - i.e. two boxes providing addresses for the same range, should support interchange of leased address lists, defined macros (dhcptab) and so on. Perhaps a shared LDAP backend can be implemented? From what I currently see, there is multi-instance support, but it seems based on shared FS (i.e. NFS) to store the DHCP tables... are there any other options currently available, or reasonably easy to implement? Secondly, does Sun DHCP support active probing (arp/ping) whether the IP address it is going to lease is actually available and not used by some squatter (or a client of another DHCP server), and logging the result? Thanks, //Jim Klimov ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Milan Jurik milan.ju...@xylab.cz wrote: On 08.08.2012 22:29, Francois Dion wrote: Just looked at it, it requires PyQT4 and that means QT4... Is there a prebuilt QT4? yes, there are gcc and Sun Studio stdcxx based in OpenIndiana SFE repo. I tried to built Calibre few times many months back but it has more dependencies you need to solve and I had not enough energy to finish it. The python modules are easy. Most are only an easy_install away. Except lxml which requires pycrypto, and there you have to modify _fastmath.h to find the gmp.h and then it'll go. PyQT requires sip (from the same website as pyqt) but that also was easy. Got pyqt working. Not too bad, until I realized that Python 2.7.x is _really_ needed. I thought it was just one or two tweaks, but he's using heavily dictionary comprehension and other stuff. I'm not even going to try until 2.7 is part of the OS. BTW in the process I noticed that MagickWand.pc is named Wand.pc on OI... ln -s Wand.pc MagickWand.pc takes care of that, in case anybody else comes upon that particular problem Francois ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox
I installed openindiana server (headless). I want to run VirtualBox. (At least, I think I want to run VirtualBox, to host windows linux guests, but I'm open to suggestions.) How does one run VirtualBox remotely? I tried remoting in with X forwarding, and then launching VirtualBox. It starts out well, but when I try to create my first VM, it complains, permission denied trying to access USB subsystem. So I guess it needs to run as root ... But I can't login as root over ssh, and I can't sudo VirtualBox because X11 forwarding gets denied. (I tried every variation of xhost + and setting DISPLAY that I can think of, but haven't gotten sudo X applications to run yet.) What is everyone else doing? Eventually, I'll want to make my guest VM's startup/shutdown automatically, without needing a GUI client connected. And it sure would be nice to be able to connect/disconnect to the GUI console of the guests when I want to... Thanks for suggestions. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox
2012-08-09 5:04, Edward Ned Harvey пишет: I installed openindiana server (headless). I want to run VirtualBox. (At least, I think I want to run VirtualBox, to host windows linux guests, but I'm open to suggestions.) How does one run VirtualBox remotely? I tried remoting in with X forwarding, and then launching VirtualBox. It starts out well, but when I try to create my first VM, it complains, permission denied trying to access USB subsystem. So I guess it needs to run as root ... But I can't login as root over ssh, and I can't sudo VirtualBox because X11 forwarding gets denied. (I tried every variation of xhost + and setting DISPLAY that I can think of, but haven't gotten sudo X applications to run yet.) What is everyone else doing? Eventually, I'll want to make my guest VM's startup/shutdown automatically, without needing a GUI client connected. And it sure would be nice to be able to connect/disconnect to the GUI console of the guests when I want to... Thanks for suggestions. I use a VNC server bound to localhost, which you can forward via SSH for actual X11 graphical connections to your workstation. To this VNC session you xhost + permit your user/zone who executes VMs. At least as of VirtualBox 3.x, it could run as an unprivileged user (non-root), and in a local zone too, so USB should not be a problem. If the VNC server is owned by root, rather insecurely for the paranoic at least, you can use it to spawn root-owned shells and ultimately VirtualBox GUI processes. Alternately look at su (without -) to inherit your current user's envvars, including DISPLAY, or try to wrap VirtualBox invokation along with shell-setting into a script and sudo that. Paranoic stuff might not be required really, if you only fire up this VNC server to configure a VBox... For headless startup/shutdown of prepared VMs (as usual SMF service instances), again, see the http://vboxsvc.sourceforge.net/ project, feel free to ask questions or add RFEs if I still missed something useful ;) The method script can also be used as a CLI script to switch VMs from SMF to GUI mode and back via savestate to disk. For most of the time you can use RDP consoles to VMs instead, but yes GUI can be useful. Alternately, there are some Web-GUIs to VirtualBox which essentially recreate the X11 GUI equivalent in HTML (for general administrative tasks without need for X11), and often include an RDP client to conveniently connect to consoles. HTH, //Jim Klimov ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox
On 9/08/12 11:23 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: ... For headless startup/shutdown of prepared VMs (as usual SMF service instances), again, see the http://vboxsvc.sourceforge.net/ project, feel free to ask questions or add RFEs if I still missed something useful ;) The method script can also be used as a CLI script to switch VMs from SMF to GUI mode and back via savestate to disk. For most of the time you can use RDP consoles to VMs instead, but yes GUI can be useful. Alternately, there are some Web-GUIs to VirtualBox which essentially recreate the X11 GUI equivalent in HTML (for general administrative tasks without need for X11), and often include an RDP client to conveniently connect to consoles. If you're using bridged networking, then you can ssh in, or use xdmcp (if you set it up). The vboxheadless service is handy to have as well too. I've got it configured, but haven't needed to use it in quite a while since my use-cases changed. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcpdotcom.com/blog Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox
On 9/08/2012 11:57 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: On 9/08/12 11:23 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: ... For headless startup/shutdown of prepared VMs (as usual SMF service instances), again, see the http://vboxsvc.sourceforge.net/ project, feel free to ask questions or add RFEs if I still missed something useful ;) The method script can also be used as a CLI script to switch VMs from SMF to GUI mode and back via savestate to disk. For most of the time you can use RDP consoles to VMs instead, but yes GUI can be useful. Alternately, there are some Web-GUIs to VirtualBox which essentially recreate the X11 GUI equivalent in HTML (for general administrative tasks without need for X11), and often include an RDP client to conveniently connect to consoles. If you're using bridged networking, then you can ssh in, or use xdmcp (if you set it up). The vboxheadless service is handy to have as well too. I've got it configured, but haven't needed to use it in quite a while since my use-cases changed. I've used x11vnc to attach remotely to running console sessions too, works well. Carl ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:j...@cos.ru] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:23 PM I use a VNC server bound to localhost, I tried pkg search vnc, and I saw a whole mess of vnc clients, but no server (at least no obvious server.) What vnc server are you using? Where did you get it? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox
It turns out, this is the best answer for the USB support: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#idp11489664 Add yourself to the vboxuser group (and logout and login) before launching the guest VM. That group has the requisite permissions. It turns out, this is the best answer for the remote console: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html You can launch machines headless with VBoxHeadless. You can make the guest physical console available over RDP. By default, there's no username or password on VRDE, but you can enable it. By default, external means authenticate using any username/pass from the host OS. But you can change the vrdeauthlibrary to VBoxAuthSimple, and then you can specify any username/pass you want for the RDP connection. If you have more than one guest, you can either have them listen on different ports VBoxManage modifyvm vmname --vrdeport 3389 Or listen on different IP addresses VBoxManage modifyvm vmname --vrdeaddress hostip ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
