Re: [smartos-discuss] Introducing io-lx -- an attempt to port LX Zones to OmniOS

2016-03-08 Thread Jorge Schrauwen 
When I still had most of my zones on OmniOS and heard the LX news I was 
thinking about how that would work on non-smartos stuff given the lack 
of vmadm.


In my head I seemed to end up on traditional tools + a script that would 
use debbootstrap to setup debian/ubuntu zones on the spot, just point it 
to the dataset.


In theory that 'should' work. In practice? I have no idea. I have many 
ideas but all seem a bit painful. But feel free to pluk my brain about 
it on IRC if you want.


Regards

Jorge


On 2016-03-08 03:47, Dan McDonald wrote:

Hello!

700+ cherrypicked commits later, and at least I haven't obviously
regressed lipkg/ipkg zones.  :)

This github repo:

https://github.com/danmcd/io-lx-public/

is the beginning of my attempt to port LX zones over to OmniOS.  I
KNOW there's a lot more work to be done, but I wanted to make sure
this repo is viewable by the public so:

1. ) People know about it.

2. ) People who are interested in helping can do so.

3. ) People can laugh at all of the mismerges and other flub-ups I'm
sure I haven't caught yet.  :)

4. ) I will be context-switching to OmniOS r151018 ramp-up very soon,
and want to checkpoint state.

I've Bcc:ed the SmartOS (home of LX zones) and the illumos (where I
hope this work can be upstreamed at some point) lists.  Discussion on
io-lx (Illumos-OmniOS-LX) should take place either on github or on the
OmniOS mailing list.

So far:

-  I've sidepulled 700+ commits, ending with illumos-joyent's
8443e038ef8eb3ca6a95818d6e90b2a1eb4e9cb6.  There are some more
illumos-joyent commits I'll need to bring over, but my cherrypicking
script and setups are primed & tested, so I *should* be able to make
short work of it.

-  I've smoke-tested a global-only OmniOS boot, and a single-lipkg zone
OmniOS boot.  After some mismerge-related consternation, I booted the
lipkg zone as well.  A rudimentary ppriv(1) comparison between root
shells in global and lipkg zones was part of the smoke test.

-  Any files I didn't know where they went I put into the "brand/lx"
package.  The inotify feature, for example, is in there, and perhaps
it shouldn't be.

-  If you ONU to io-lx, note that to install brand/lx, you will need to
UNINSTALL the "illumos-gate" consolidation package first.  I don't
have changes in omnios-build or any of the other repos (like pkg5)
yet.  I hope to avoid outside-illumos changes until it's time to
figure out the admin model.

After I'm comfortable with no ipkg/lipkg regressions, I will need to
spend some design time figuring out how LX zones will look on OmniOS.
I will not be porting vmadm(1M) over from SmartOS, so I need to think
about how LX will fit in with traditional zone tools.  I may discover
other problems, but until I start the '018 process, and immediately
after '018 ships, I will need to ensure no ipkg/lipkg regressions
first and foremost.

It's not much, but it's a start.

Thanks for your time & patience,
Dan




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Re: [smartos-discuss] Introducing io-lx -- an attempt to port LX Zones to OmniOS

2016-03-07 Thread Garrett D'Amore 
Congratulations.  Hopefully I'll have some time to help you. I'm excited about 
this effort. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 7, 2016, at 6:47 PM, Dan McDonald  wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> 700+ cherrypicked commits later, and at least I haven't obviously regressed 
> lipkg/ipkg zones.  :)
> 
> This github repo:
> 
> https://github.com/danmcd/io-lx-public/
> 
> is the beginning of my attempt to port LX zones over to OmniOS.  I KNOW 
> there's a lot more work to be done, but I wanted to make sure this repo is 
> viewable by the public so:
> 
> 1. ) People know about it.
> 
> 2. ) People who are interested in helping can do so.
> 
> 3. ) People can laugh at all of the mismerges and other flub-ups I'm sure I 
> haven't caught yet.  :)
> 
> 4. ) I will be context-switching to OmniOS r151018 ramp-up very soon, and 
> want to checkpoint state.
> 
> I've Bcc:ed the SmartOS (home of LX zones) and the illumos (where I hope this 
> work can be upstreamed at some point) lists.  Discussion on io-lx 
> (Illumos-OmniOS-LX) should take place either on github or on the OmniOS 
> mailing list.
> 
> So far:
> 
> -  I've sidepulled 700+ commits, ending with illumos-joyent's 
> 8443e038ef8eb3ca6a95818d6e90b2a1eb4e9cb6.  There are some more illumos-joyent 
> commits I'll need to bring over, but my cherrypicking script and setups are 
> primed & tested, so I *should* be able to make short work of it.
> 
> -  I've smoke-tested a global-only OmniOS boot, and a single-lipkg zone 
> OmniOS boot.  After some mismerge-related consternation, I booted the lipkg 
> zone as well.  A rudimentary ppriv(1) comparison between root shells in 
> global and lipkg zones was part of the smoke test.
> 
> -  Any files I didn't know where they went I put into the "brand/lx" package. 
>  The inotify feature, for example, is in there, and perhaps it shouldn't be.
> 
> -  If you ONU to io-lx, note that to install brand/lx, you will need to 
> UNINSTALL the "illumos-gate" consolidation package first.  I don't have 
> changes in omnios-build or any of the other repos (like pkg5) yet.  I hope to 
> avoid outside-illumos changes until it's time to figure out the admin model.
> 
> After I'm comfortable with no ipkg/lipkg regressions, I will need to spend 
> some design time figuring out how LX zones will look on OmniOS.  I will not 
> be porting vmadm(1M) over from SmartOS, so I need to think about how LX will 
> fit in with traditional zone tools.  I may discover other problems, but until 
> I start the '018 process, and immediately after '018 ships, I will need to 
> ensure no ipkg/lipkg regressions first and foremost.
> 
> It's not much, but it's a start.
> 
> Thanks for your time & patience,
> Dan
> 


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