Dave,
Can someone please kindly tell me what is the current recommended guest VM
Type and Version to be used for hosting illumos-derived distros in
VirtualBox – specifically OpenIndiana and Tribblix?
I always choose Solaris 10 10/09 or later, 64-bit. Selecting 32
or 64-bit obviously makes a
On 14/08/14 21:28, Peter Tribble wrote:
Dave,
Can someone please kindly tell me what is the current recommended guest VM
Type and Version to be used for hosting illumos-derived distros in
VirtualBox – specifically OpenIndiana and Tribblix?
I always choose Solaris 10 10/09 or later, 64-bit.
On 2014-02-15 13:17, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 15/02/2014 12:09 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
I think misconfig - dedicate VNICs on the host to each VM and see
if it helps at least.
Like from this page? :
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.3+KVM
One per virtual machine (or, virtual machine's ethernet
On 16/02/2014 11:55 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2014-02-15 13:17, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 15/02/2014 12:09 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
I think misconfig - dedicate VNICs on the host to each VM and see
if it helps at least.
Like from this page? :
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.3+KVM
One per
On 2014-02-16 22:57, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 16/02/2014 11:55 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2014-02-15 13:17, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 15/02/2014 12:09 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
I think misconfig - dedicate VNICs on the host to each VM and see
if it helps at least.
Like from this page? :
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:22 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
On 14-02-12 06:55 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 13/02/2014 12:27 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Hi Carl.
I have a few OI+VBox boxes in production right now and I haven't
experienced any networking failure. The only part isn't supported is
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
and dladm show-vnic?
carl@hostie:~$ dladm show-vnic
carl@hostie:~$
This is the problem, it should read like
root@hp:~# dladm show-vnic
LINK OVER SPEED MACADDRESSMACADDRTYPE
On 14/02/2014 7:48 PM, Michael Hase wrote:
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
and dladm show-vnic?
carl@hostie:~$ dladm show-vnic
carl@hostie:~$
This is the problem, it should read like
root@hp:~# dladm show-vnic
LINK OVER
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 14/02/2014 7:48 PM, Michael Hase wrote:
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
and dladm show-vnic?
carl@hostie:~$ dladm show-vnic
carl@hostie:~$
This is the problem, it should read like
On 2014-02-14 01:59, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 14/02/2014 10:40 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
Under OpenSolaris and later, if you want properly working
bridged interfaces, according to the docs you must create
a VNIC with a unique MAC address, and you must configure
the VM with the same MAC address on its
On 15/02/14 01:22, Carl Brewer wrote:
Weird, why would it work at all if that wasn't running?
Are there any howto's online that explains this?
Crazy, this is the first I knew about this too. I have half a dozen
VirtualBox VMs running in bridged mode and have never had a problem.
Curious
we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base
tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address
correctly. I made the host a static address and both the interface, and the
KVM have been up and working for 71 days without an issue.
I'm not sure if you
On 13/02/2014 9:02 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base
tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address
correctly. I made the host a static address and both the interface, and the
KVM have been up and working for
On 2014-02-13 21:41, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 13/02/2014 9:02 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base
tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address
correctly. I made the host a static address and both the interface,
On 14/02/2014 9:12 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2014-02-13 21:41, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 13/02/2014 9:02 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
we had an issue with an OI box running KVM, in that instance the OI base
tried DHCP'ing (after about 7-10 days) and wouldn't get an IP address
correctly. I made the
On 2014-02-13 23:28, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 14/02/2014 9:12 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
No, all static, all bridged.
...all bridged to individual OI vnics with mac addresses matching
the MAC address of the NIC in VM? right? ;)
whatever the default behaviour is, yes.
For this configuration there
In message 52fd470d.3000...@bl.echidna.id.au, Carl Brewer writes:
whatever the default behaviour is, yes.
What is the output of VBoxManage showvminfo and dladm show-vnic?
John
groenv...@acm.org
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On 14/02/2014 10:40 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
For this configuration there is no proper default, so this
may be the culprit if I guessed correctly. Am I right to
interpret your post as I did not configure anything special
and just bridged all VM NICs over the same host OS interface?
I just
On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
In message 52fd470d.3000...@bl.echidna.id.au, Carl Brewer writes:
whatever the default behaviour is, yes.
What is the output of VBoxManage showvminfo
For each VM, trimmed for relevancy :
carl@hostie:~$ VBoxManage showvminfo oldroll
Name:
On 14-02-13 05:06 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 14/02/2014 11:32 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
In message 52fd470d.3000...@bl.echidna.id.au, Carl Brewer writes:
whatever the default behaviour is, yes.
What is the output of VBoxManage showvminfo
For each VM, trimmed for relevancy :
On 14-02-12 04:43 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
G'day,
I have a pretty happy OI151a8 server running Virtualbox 4.3.6
It's got 3 guests (2 NetBSD, one CentOS 5). They mostly just burble
along, except every now and then (roughly every 7-10 days) they lose
network connectivity. The only way I've
On 13/02/2014 12:27 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Hi Carl.
I have a few OI+VBox boxes in production right now and I haven't
experienced any networking failure. The only part isn't supported is
the crossbow network stack, you need to use the streams version. They
have absolutely been rock solid.
I
On 14-02-12 06:55 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 13/02/2014 12:27 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Hi Carl.
I have a few OI+VBox boxes in production right now and I haven't
experienced any networking failure. The only part isn't supported is
the crossbow network stack, you need to use the streams version.
On 20/12/2013 9:38 AM, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 5/12/2013 11:56 AM, Carl Brewer wrote:
I just bumped VB up to 4.3.4 and it seems to be working fine on OI 151a8
For the archive, this has been rock solid for me since I did it.
Last night my 4.3.4 guests lost network connection. I bumped to
On 5/12/2013 11:56 AM, Carl Brewer wrote:
I just bumped VB up to 4.3.4 and it seems to be working fine on OI 151a8
For the archive, this has been rock solid for me since I did it.
Carl
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On 13-12-19 02:38 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
On 5/12/2013 11:56 AM, Carl Brewer wrote:
I just bumped VB up to 4.3.4 and it seems to be working fine on OI 151a8
For the archive, this has been rock solid for me since I did it.
That is good to know.
Just a note 4.3.6 was released and it fixed a
I just bumped VB up to 4.3.4 and it seems to be working fine on OI 151a8
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On 17/11/13 13:00, Geoff Nordli wrote:
That is interesting it is about the same, because the developers
suggested there was a major rework of the vt-x code in this release.
There should have been a pretty decent performance improvement.
Regardless, for production it will be a long time
Hi,
well, i didn't measured anything, that is just my 'impression'...
And it behaves very stable (didn't had any kind of crash, since 4.2.8).
I have moved into '/hipster' repository (so, not production level at
all) and since Hipster has often updates, do not take my statement as
something
Works well for me other than not being able to boot iPXE. 4.3 goes to
GURU meditation with iPXE. But it does it on all platforms. Windows and
Linux.
Mike
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 15:43 +0100, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems
Administrator] wrote:
Hi,
well, i didn't measured anything, that is
Hi,
it works just OK (no worse or no better then 4.2).
You have to carefully set RAM usage, otherwise system willswap.
Regards.
Am 16.11.2013 01:10, schrieb Carl Brewer:
G'day,
Before I do it myself, has anyone got VB 4.3.2 on OI 151a8 running? All
good? No good?
Thanks!
Carl
Ran it last week, perfect access to underlying hardware... VM's RAM gets stuck
in swap often on a 1gb ram machine. Aggrivating and painful.
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:10:27 +1100
From: c...@bl.echidna.id.au
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox
On 16/11/2013 11:21 AM, tyrrell t wrote:
Ran it last week, perfect access to underlying hardware... VM's RAM
gets stuck in swap often on a 1gb ram machine. Aggrivating and
painful.
so stick with 4.2.x for now I guess?
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On 13-11-15 04:21 PM, tyrrell t wrote:
Ran it last week, perfect access to underlying hardware... VM's RAM gets stuck
in swap often on a 1gb ram machine. Aggrivating and painful.
Hi Tyrrell.
Did you file a bug?
It would be good to keep an eye on it.
They have done a lot of work in the
On 4/12/12 05:44 AM, russell wrote:
Hi,
I have problem with VirtualBox 4.1.22 on OI_151a7. If I start VirtualBox
immediately after login and start at least one VBox then it will start
correctly. If I start any application first and then attempt to start
VirtualBox, the VBox will fail with a
i just installed the latest 4.2.4 I think. Works great on my machine.
On 12/ 3/12 03:44 PM, James C. McPherson wrote:
On 4/12/12 05:44 AM, russell wrote:
Hi,
I have problem with VirtualBox 4.1.22 on OI_151a7. If I start
VirtualBox immediately after login and start at least one VBox then
i just installed the latest 4.2.4 I think. Works great on my machine.
Ditto here. OI151a7 with virtualbox. Migrating over ESXi VMs one by
one... I have plans at some point soon to start running them headless
using Jim's SMF stuff.
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Jim Klimov píše v st 20. 06. 2012 v 19:22 +0400:
Hello,
I was asked why the OI repos don't provide VirtualBox?
My first reply was that this may be because of PUEL license
limitations; however, since release of the 4.x branch, the
basic software and its source code are GPLv2,
Hi, Geoff,
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 19:33 -0700, Geoff Nordli wrote:
It would think vbox running on an illumos host would work pretty well
since I assume Oracle runs their VDI solution on Solaris. Do we think
there is going to be a lot of difference between Solaris and Illumos?
When last I
Thanks Bayard.
It would think vbox running on an illumos host would work pretty well
since I assume Oracle runs their VDI solution on Solaris. Do we think
there is going to be a lot of difference between Solaris and Illumos?
So what you are leaning towards is running Illumos as a guest is that
There are three problems running on VBox I've seen previously: 1) building
illumos-gate from source takes days instead of hours; 2) the debug kernel is
extremely unstable, frequently locking up and unable to recover; and 3)
scalability for vCPU and memory is flat on the reference host platform
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
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 lucky?
This is entirely an assumption on my part but I
On 03/19/2012 06:34 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
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
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote:
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.
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Hi,
are you using gcc from SFE?
Best regards,
Milan
Hans J. Albertsson p
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Hi,
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1534
Best
Hi,
are you using gcc from SFE?
Best regards,
Milan
Hans J. Albertsson píše v čt 12. 01. 2012 v 19:37 +0100:
I decided to start using VirtualBox again today, and put in version 4.1.8
When starting it as an ordinary user, it comes up with an error panel,
Panel says Failed to create the
Jurikmilan.ju...@xylab.cz
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Hi,
are you using gcc from SFE?
Best regards
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:21 +0200, Ewald Ertl wrote:
I've a laptop running since an OpenSolaris build and just upgraded to
each version.
Now I've updated to the latest dev-il Package Repository and switched
the sfe repository and upgraded.
I still have problems with the kvm module, so I'm
Hi,
Am 16.09.2011 19:47 schrieb Alex Viskovatoff viskovat...@imap.cc:
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:21 +0200, Ewald Ertl wrote:
I've a laptop running since an OpenSolaris build and just upgraded to
each version.
Now I've updated to the latest dev-il Package Repository and switched
the sfe
Are you sure that your nics are still named rge?
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From: Lou Picciano [mailto:loupicci...@comcast.net]
Sent: maandag 25 juli 2011 3:15
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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 3.1.8 / bridged networking on
oi_148 x86 host
Dave
On 25/07/11 07:57 PM, Open Indiana wrote:
Are you sure that your nics are still named rge?
Yep:
$ dladm show-link
LINKCLASS MTUSTATEBRIDGE OVER
rge0phys 1500 up -- --
vboxnet0phys 1500 unknown -- --
e1000g0 phys
Op 24-7-2011 17:58 schreef Gary Driggs:
Have you tried a more recent version of VB? I think 4.0.12 is the latest?
Version 4.1 is the latest.
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On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Version 4.1 is the latest.
True, but it's 4.1.0 so my personal tactic is to not use dot zero releases
unless thoroughly tested first.
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On Jul 24, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
No, I've been holding off upgrading for the heck of it as 3.1.8 has been
running like a champ for ages, however if you think it's worthwhile and might
resolve this then I'll upgrade and see.
I've found it pretty painless to shift back
Dave,
I've been using latest VirtualBox (4.1) on OpenIndiana 148b or so, and having
good luck so far.
You and I are both suffering with RealTek Gigabit interfaces, which I've been
warned off of. Still, for the moment at least, things look pretty good.
Lou Picciano
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On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 03:54 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Hello,
a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris +
VirtualBox 3.x, then
I had to abandon my
Chan
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On Friday, June 17, 2011 03:29 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Yes, you're right, sorry. That specific customer was running Solaris 10 10/09
or something.
I had no chance
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 03:54 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Hello,
a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris +
VirtualBox 3.x, then
I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially
whth Windows Server guests.
With a lot of sadness I had to rely on
The first revs of 4 crashed a lot with APCI or sleep mode on a Windows 7 guest
but that seems to have cleared up. The Windows Thin PC release candidate had
some memory leak problem, however, but I don't know if it'll be fixed in the
RTM version or not.
-Gary
On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:54 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Hello,
a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox
3.x, then
I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth
Windows Server guests.
With a lot of sadness I had to rely on VMWare
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 03:54 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Hello,
a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox 3.x,
then
I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth
Windows Server guests.
With a lot of sadness I had to rely on
Yes, I have tweaked the block sizes on my virtual box guests zvols to get
the desired performance.
there are two factors that you may want to look at:
1) block size. files default to a 128K allocation block size, while
zvols default to 8K.
2) check the sync property; the zvol may be
Not vbox on OI personally, although I did run vbox on centos5.4 with no
issues. What I am doing now is running OI as a VM under ESXi passing
thru the sata controller. Performance is not detectably worse than bare
metal...
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I've got a few Images running in VirtualBox, they seem solid enough,
but I don't leave them running for more than a Day, I don't enjoy
staring at the Windows Logo on my nice laptop ...
I've never had any critical services running in them either, I have
the images more for applications that
On 05/31/11 12:47 PM, Dustin Marquess wrote:
Currently I'm running OI 151 as a Xen 4.1.1 domU. While I have a
couple of other domUs on this server, the OI domU is my 'main' VM.
Because of this, I'm thinking of redoing the machine and installing OI
on the barebones hardware, and then using
I'm running VirtualBox 4.0.6 on OI b148. I'm using sparse zvols for storage,
rather than .vdi'and using ZFS snapshots
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Dustin Marquess dmarqu...@gmail.comwrote:
Has anybody done something similar under OI? Has is the stability?
I'm hoping since Solaris
Sorry, somehow that got sent too early there,
I'm running VirtualBox 4.0.6 on OI b148. I'm using sparse zvols for storage,
rather than .vdi's. I'm very happy with the performance. (dedicated ZIL and
L2ARC devices help a lot) I'm taking snapshots using ZFS for these vbox
machines. All has been
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 05:00 AM, Chris Mosetick wrote:
Sorry, somehow that got sent too early there,
I'm running VirtualBox 4.0.6 on OI b148. I'm using sparse zvols for storage,
rather than .vdi's. I'm very happy with the performance. (dedicated ZIL and
L2ARC devices help a lot) I'm taking
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
I hava better performance with files instead of zvols.
Now that is interesting...
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I don't remember the specifics, but it was non-trivial..
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On Wednesday
On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
I hava better performance with files instead of zvols.
Now that is interesting...
there are two factors that you may want to look at:
1) block size. files default to a 128K
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On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
I hava better performance with files instead of zvols.
Now that is interesting...
there are two factors
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 09:15 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
I hava better performance with files instead of zvols.
Now that is interesting...
there are two factors that you may want
Tommy,
Yes, similar mileage on this end trying to do that... Think we had to run the
actual scripts on the mounted iso image to get additions to install.
Lou Picciano
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On 10/20/10 10:45 AM, Hosam Al Ali wrote:
ld.so.1: VBoxZoneAccess: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: version 'GCC_4.2.0' not found
(required by file /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
ld.so.1: VBoxZoneAccess: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or
directory
I have libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 in
Am 06.10.2010 um 22:30 schrieb Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca:
On 10/ 6/10 02:35 PM, I wrote:
During the installation of VirtualBox 3.2.8 downloaded from
virtualbox.org (newer version than what's available at
opensolaris.org/dev) I noticed a postinstall script error about USB
Great news! Is there a section in the wiki to put that? Would be a
great addition!
Cheers
Stefan
Am 06.10.2010 um 22:30 schrieb Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca:
On 10/ 6/10 02:35 PM, I wrote:
During the installation of VirtualBox 3.2.8 downloaded from
virtualbox.org (newer version
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