Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 04/18/21 12:05 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and 64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it.  Is an OI VM running on top of OI viable for building and testing?  In particular, how good is VBox for that?  it's become very Windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Carl Brewer
On that front, I "must" mention my vboxsvc project: * https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxsvc * nee https://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc Beside allowing to wrap each vbox into an SMF instance (dependencies, restarts by state monitoring and all), among other features it also has a way to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Jim Klimov
On April 18, 2021 10:05:02 AM UTC, Carl Brewer wrote: > >> Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and >64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it. Is an OI VM running on >top of OI viable for building and testing? In particular, how good is >VBox for that? it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
My use cases for VMs are running CAD and EDA software on Win 7 and Debian and Firefox on Hipster so a local display is essential. I have no application for a server other than to do backups. Reg On Sunday, April 18, 2021, 07:46:22 AM CDT, Carl Brewer wrote: On 18/04/2021 9:44 pm,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Carl Brewer
On 18/04/2021 9:44 pm, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Running VMs in VirtualBox makes only sense under certain requirements, like eg. local display. OI has out-of-the-box better virtualization methods: KVM and BHyve. For both you can create corresponding zones. If possible, BHyve is the recommended

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 4/18/21 um 12:05 PM schrieb Carl Brewer: Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and 64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it.  Is an OI VM running on top of OI viable for building and testing?  In particular, how good is VBox for that?  it's become very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Carl Brewer
Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and 64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it. Is an OI VM running on top of OI viable for building and testing? In particular, how good is VBox for that? it's become very Windows host oriented. I'm also aware the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-17 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I'm not familiar with that as I have never learned python, but I should be able to create a package for it. I have numerous friends who do use python. I'd *really* like to get Octave to compile, but they have borked autotools so badly it is hopeless unless I write a new Makefile. In the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-17 Thread private mail openbabel
Dear all, Planning ahead. It would be nice to compile Anaconda for science sometime in the future. Regards, Robert https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/computing/software/anaconda-scientific-python-distribution On 17/04/2021 18:24, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I'm about to set

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-17 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I'm about to set up an HP Z840 with 1x 14 core E5-2690 V4, a 4x 4 TB RAIDZ2 array and 4x 16 GB ECC DIMMs. The dbx implementation in the Oracle/Sun/Forte compiler suite is the only debugger I've encountered which will evaluate F77 intrinsics on the command line. This is immensely valuable to