[OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki is down 503

2021-04-27 Thread Stephan Althaus
Hello admins! The OI wiki site https://wiki.openindiana.org/ is down. 503 Service unavailable Stephan ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Graphics card CLI enquiry

2021-04-27 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 04/26/21 03:21 PM, Michelle wrote: Many thanks... prtdiag -v told me Upgradeable Slots ID StatusType Description --- - 1 in usePCI Express PCIE1-J5, Advanced

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB Access issues

2021-04-27 Thread russell
Good Morning John The output of format -e for the USB Flash drive    9. c7t0d0 /pci@0,0/pci1022,1483@1,2/pci1b21,1142@0/hub@6/storage@3/disk@0,0 Running parted  /dev/dsk/c7t0d0p0 GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/dsk/c7t0d0p0 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Graphics card CLI enquiry

2021-04-27 Thread Michelle
It's just text only. The N54L only has a VGA connector and I need a DVI for connection to my KVM. The KVM won't take analogue over DVI so I need a half height card to do the job. Michelle On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 08:20 +0200, Stephan Althaus wrote: > On 04/26/21 03:21 PM, Michelle wrote: > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VBox on top of Hipster and twm?

2021-04-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Thank you! That's great news. The reason I ran dtwm and twm side by side was Netscape wouldn't run properly on twm. Too many hooks into Motif. I'd like to shift all my Internet access to a VM with the base system running OI on RAIDZ2. Reg On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 12:50:16 AM CDT,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

2021-04-27 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Nelson H. F. Beebe writes: > The network setup on VirtualBox on vboxhost.example.com is unusual: its > initial network is not bidirectional! It only connects outbound. > > In order to get inbound connections for ssh, it is necessary to add a > second network adapter, which can only be down in

[OpenIndiana-discuss] X startup/shutdown questions

2021-04-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
What service starts the MATE environment? I've been unable to locate what starts that. And generally unable to determine how exactly what any service does is specified. I'd expected "init 2" in single user mode to take me to multi-user console mode, but it did not. However, I was able to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

2021-04-27 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
"L. F. Elia" asks about networking on VirtualBox. We too found its behavior different from other virtualization systems, and I tend to write copious notes about machine issues. Here is a fragment of those notes, with generalized hostnames: The network setup on VirtualBox on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 6.1.18 nested vms

2021-04-27 Thread Chris
On 2021-04-27 08:32, L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss wrote: From what I recall, nested virtualization might require BIOS changes (at least on DELL). Good luck! lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Thursday, April

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

2021-04-27 Thread John D Groenveld
In message , "Nelson H. F. Bee be" writes: >The network setup on VirtualBox on vboxhost.example.com is unusual: its >initial network is not bidirectional! It only connects outbound. When I use illumos as the host, I find it easier to dladm create an etherstub and vnics for the host and the VBox

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 6.1.18 nested vms

2021-04-27 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
From what I recall, nested virtualization might require BIOS changes (at least on DELL). Good luck! lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Thursday, April 1, 2021, 07:16:20 AM EDT, russell wrote: Hi For what I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

2021-04-27 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
When I run a VBox NAT VM I want to ssh into -- the only reliable config I have found is to avoid 127.0.0.1 and instead use the actual IP of the box (such as 10.1.100.221 port or such). Not sure why this is, but that is what I have found to work. lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701