Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-18 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-03-17 21:06, Nikola M wrote: Bayard Bell wrote: VirtualBox has proven to be effectively unusable (building from source takes days instead of hours, and debug kernels suffer awful performance and lockups) Why Vmware? Vmware is not available for Openindiana/Illumos. And Virtualbox is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-18 Thread Nikola M
Robin Axelsson wrote: And why such an apparent disinterest for Xen? A good hypervisor with full support for PCI and VGA passthrough functionality would definitely benefit Illumos/OpenIndiana. Xen used to be available for OpenSolaris in the form of xVM. It would be so great having Xen again

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Keyboard support in Gnome: was: Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-18 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, Nikola M píše v ne 18. 03. 2012 v 11:32 +0100: One of the basic things that is bugging me is also not having regional keyboards support in GNOME anymore. https://www.illumos.org/issues/2422 it is not big problem to fix it (I am using own version of few packages needed for it) because it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hi everyone

2012-03-18 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 14:09, Bayard Bell buffer.g.overf...@gmail.com wrote: Both OI and illumos generally need SPARC hardware, particularly higher-spec kit suitable for our build environment, to support development. If you are willing to donate hardware to ship to a data centre, please

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Ridd
On 17 Mar 2012, at 13:04, Bayard Bell wrote: If you have a copy of VMWare, it would be much appreciated if you could contact me directly and/or join the oi-dev mailing list and work with us to provide an appliance distribution. The latter's not difficult, but the development team has so

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana

2012-03-18 Thread Geoff Nordli
I have been using vbox 4.1.x on OI 151 for about 5 months now running some server-based VMs with good success. I noticed some comments from Bayard on the list about how vbox was completely unusable for development. Are there other people having success using it on servers or have I just been