Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox

2012-08-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 9/08/2012 11:57 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: On 9/08/12 11:23 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: ... For headless startup/shutdown of prepared VMs (as usual SMF service instances), again, see the http://vboxsvc.sourceforge.net/ project, feel free to ask questions or add RFEs if I still missed something

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux container, and plex?

2012-08-19 Thread Carl Brewer
Just a quick one, I've never played with Solaris|OI containers, I understand they can be used to run a GNU/linux server of some flavour(s). I'm interested in a home Plex server - which AFAIK only runs on some versions of GNU/Linux. Has anyone here spun up a server in a container and run

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux container, and plex?

2012-08-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/08/2012 1:04 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: For some reason, I had really thought that Plex was open source. I at least thought there were a Mac OS X version of it. Looking closer, I see that there are clients for different platforms, but the server piece is proprietary lunux software. I am glad

[OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-11 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I'm going to be building a new home/small office server soon, with ~24GB or so of RAM and hopefully 6-8 TB of ZFS mirrored storage, as well as a couple of 1TB HDDs for a ZFS root partition. It's going to run Virtualbox to virtualise a Linux (CentOS 5) and Windows SBS 2003 server on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-16 Thread Carl Brewer
Further to my original post, I have a new (desktop, I know ... but I am on a tight budget) Intel MB with an i5-3750 CPU and 32 GB of desktop RAM. Booting the 151a7 live DVD shows that it thinks it's a 32 bit system (huh?). It regognises almost all the devices when I run the device manager,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-17 Thread Carl Brewer
On 17/04/2013 12:53 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: Further to my original post, I have a new (desktop, I know ... but I am on a tight budget) Intel MB with an i5-3750 CPU and 32 GB of desktop RAM. Booting the 151a7 live DVD shows that it thinks it's a 32 bit system (huh?). It regognises almost all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-18 Thread Carl Brewer
On 18/04/2013 11:08 AM, Jay Heyl wrote: One thing I would recommend is trying to use the ashift=12 setting to force the use of 4k blocks. I ran into problems because my initial pools were created with 512-byte blocks. When I bought some spare drives I couldn't use them because they were

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-19 Thread Carl Brewer
On 17/04/2013 8:25 PM, Aneurin Price wrote: On 17 April 2013 03:53, Carl Brewer c...@bl.echidna.id.au wrote: Further to my original post, I have a new (desktop, I know ... but I am on a tight budget) Intel MB with an i5-3750 CPU and 32 GB of desktop RAM. Booting the 151a7 live DVD shows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 19/04/2013 11:29 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 18/04/2013 11:08 AM, Jay Heyl wrote: One thing I would recommend is trying to use the ashift=12 setting to force the use of 4k blocks. I ran into problems because my initial pools were created with 512-byte blocks. When I bought some spare drives I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-21 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/04/2013 7:37 PM, Jay Heyl wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Carl Brewer c...@bl.echidna.id.au wrote: Like this : root@hostie:~# zdb | egrep 'ashift| name' name: 'rpool' ashift: 12 And as I understand it, the 12 means 4k blocks, good, right? :) Yep, those

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware recommendations for OI desktop system

2013-05-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 21/05/2013 5:20 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: All- The tl;dr version: Can anyone tell me whether either of these systems would work (functioning storage controller, video, and audio) with OI: Intel DX79SR:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] WD reds any good for ZFS RAIDZ pools?

2013-06-05 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I'm about to source parts for my home server's array, and am looking at WD red 3TB HDD's, any feedback or war stories on these drives? If I get 3 x 3TB a RAIDz array would give me ~6TB, which should keep me going for a few years and not run me out of drive slots in my case. Thanks

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] snv134 upgraded to oi147!

2010-11-16 Thread Carl Brewer
On 17/11/2010 9:30 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: Ha! It's funny that you would do that the day after Oracle Solaris Express 11 was released. heh, yes, the irony isn't lost on me :) That's what finally encouraged me to do it (or, rather, reminded me ...)

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-05 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, now oi_151 seems to be out, I'd like some help upgrading. Currently : pkg publisher -a PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI openindiana.org (preferred) origin online http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ opensolaris.org (non-sticky) origin online

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-05 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/06/2011 3:19 PM, Alastair Neil wrote: try pkg set-publisher -G http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ openindiana.org Ok, now I have this : pkg set-publisher -G http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ openindiana.org root@wattage:/opt/ipp# pkg publisher -a PUBLISHER

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-05 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/06/2011 3:21 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: So all I need to do is pkg refresh and all will be well? and : pkg install pkg:/package/pkg and then pkg image-update I think anyway? On 6 June 2011 01:10, Carl Brewerc...@bl.echidna.id.au wrote: G'day, now oi_151 seems to be out, I'd

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/06/2011 3:40 PM, Alastair Neil wrote: yep It's almost done now :) root@wattage:/opt/ipp# pkg image-update Packages to remove:28 Packages to install:23 Packages to update: 829 Create boot environment: Yes DOWNLOAD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/06/2011 7:09 PM, Deano wrote: Just in case anybody read this, and gets the wrong idea: oi_151 isn't out, it is in testing, whilst we are more than happy for people to test and help squish those bugs, it isn't yet qualified for production use. It has several stages (/dev than /release)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/06/2011 11:11 PM, ken mays wrote: Hi Carl: 1. '/release' is the offficial public repository for releases. 2. '/dev' is the official development repository. You'll note that the released product will appear on the official website home page: http://openindiana.org/ Cool. Out of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 7/06/2011 3:19 PM, Michael Schuster wrote: Are you asking whether zfs versions are in lockstep with the (Open)Solaris/OI/.. build? if so, no, they're not (or have not been so far). I think there's an option to zfs upgrade (-v, IIRC), that gives a list of zfs versions you could use (I don't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from oi_148 to oi_151 - some clarification please

2011-06-07 Thread Carl Brewer
On 7/06/2011 10:21 PM, ken mays wrote: ZFS pools 29-31+ are not in 'major use' by other OS distros outside of the official Solaris product releases coming from Oracle. Thanks Ken, Carl ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Announcing OpenIndiana Build 151a

2011-09-16 Thread Carl Brewer
# uname -a SunOS wattage 5.11 oi_151a i86pc i386 i86pc # uptime 4:10pm up 11 min(s), 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.38, 0.24 thank you! Carl ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How viable is Hipster/oi_151a8 ?

2013-07-08 Thread Carl Brewer
I see that the Hipster repo has oi_151a8 now. Is that viable for home/production use? My server's running Virtualbox and CIFS. Before I go there, is it likely to work? Thanks! Carl ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How viable is Hipster/oi_151a8 ?

2013-07-11 Thread Carl Brewer
I've bumped one of my home servers to it, so far so good, but am reluctant to upgrade my zpools just in case it's unstable and I have to boot off an ISO DVD, AFAIK there's no ISO/liveimage for it for emergency boots? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] binding CIFS to a specific interface?

2013-07-23 Thread Carl Brewer
I haven't had any luck googling for this, except for using IPF. Is it possible to bind OI (151a8) CIFS to one interface - I have a server which sits on an Internet link and my LAN with two ethernet interfaces and I only want CIFS to listen on the LAN interface. Possible? (I know I can

[OpenIndiana-discuss] updating to 151a8 if you've gone hipster?

2013-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, A few weeks ago I updated one of my OI boxes to Hipster, pkg shows : root@hostie:/home/carl# pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI openindiana.orgorigin online http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/ opensolaris.orgorigin online

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] updating to 151a8 if you've gone hipster?

2013-08-12 Thread Carl Brewer
On 12/08/2013 9:53 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day, A few weeks ago I updated one of my OI boxes to Hipster, pkg shows : root@hostie:/home/carl# pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI openindiana.orgorigin online http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade to oi_151a8 fails on one machine

2013-08-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/08/2013 8:36 AM, Gary Mills wrote: The first machine upgraded from oi_151a7 to oi_151a8 with no problems. The command I used was: pkg image-update --be-name oi_151a8 . It updated 879 packages into a new BE. It looked good when I rebooted into that BE. The second gave me trouble. I used

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4.3.x (2!) and oi 151a8? working?

2013-11-15 Thread 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 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4.3.x (2!) and oi 151a8? working?

2013-11-15 Thread Carl Brewer
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? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-25 Thread Carl Brewer
On 24/11/2013 7:13 AM, jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Sad, nice boxes, they were. Afaik some were refitted into zfs nases, maybe keeping only the stylish case with different mobo's. Still, may i ask to mail us the small spare components like the nvram chips or ram modules? That setup is not in USA,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4.3.x (2!) and oi 151a8? working?

2013-12-04 Thread Carl Brewer
I just bumped VB up to 4.3.4 and it seems to be working fine on OI 151a8 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4.3.x (2!) and oi 151a8? working?

2013-12-19 Thread Carl Brewer
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 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4.3.x (2!) and oi 151a8? working?

2014-01-02 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade Conflicts with 151a9

2014-01-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/01/2014 2:15 PM, Ray Butler wrote: Hello Experts, Attemping to upgrade my home server to 151a9 today and I'm getting several conflicts which apparently are due to my using the legacy repo. Any way to get around this other than a reinstall? Thanks in advance.\\ I'm seeing the same

[OpenIndiana-discuss] mounting a NetBSD FFS drive on OI?

2014-02-02 Thread Carl Brewer
I just had an old NetBSD box die a horrible death, and want to extract what I can from its drives. NetBSD 5.1.x, Berkeley FFS. Luckily I had most of it backed up to a VM and it's mostly replaced. I have a USB drive caddy and can see the drive when I plug it in to my OI 151a8 server :

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-12 Thread Carl Brewer
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 found to get them online again is to shut

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-12 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-13 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-14 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox, OI 151a8 and vboxflt problem

2014-02-16 Thread Carl Brewer
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-09-25 Thread Carl Brewer
On 25/09/2014 6:50 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 09/25/2014 12:46, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 25/09/2014 10:42, Jonathan Adams wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/bash_shell_vuln/ The bug works, so we are affected with everything that is based on bash, as well as all users

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-09-25 Thread Carl Brewer
On 25/09/2014 9:28 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 09/25/2014 15:08, Carl Brewer wrote: On 25/09/2014 6:50 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 09/25/2014 12:46, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 25/09/2014 10:42, Jonathan Adams wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/bash_shell_vuln

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-10-13 Thread Carl Brewer
On 14/10/2014 12:19 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello. Jon Tibble has just pushed updated bash package with recent security fixes to OI /dev a9. Just update your bash to shell/bash@4.0.28,5.11-0.151.1.9:20140117T202904Z . Any chance that the same could be done for a8? I can't get to a9 - it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

2015-04-21 Thread Carl Brewer
Hello, I have been a _long_ time user of OpenSolaris, then OI, now stuck on oi 151a8 for some time as pkg updates stopped working after that release - some careless dependancy mess just broke it and it was too hard to sort out. Anyway ... I use it to run Virtualbox (GUI) and some smb/nfs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recommendation for a distribuition to run Virtualbox on?

2015-04-22 Thread Carl Brewer
, and have Libreoffice and Firefox, etc all working. I however have stuck with OpenIndiana, but I'm using the hipster branch, but it is essentially beta where no guarantee is made on breakage. On 22 April 2015 at 01:42, Carl Brewer c...@bl.echidna.id.au wrote: Hello, I have been a _long_ time user

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-05-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/05/2015 3:08 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Try using text installer. Last text installer images will install OI on EFI-labeled disks if whole disk install is selected so if I boot off the OI 201503 GUI ISO, but in text mode, I'll be able to do this? Is there a howto or guide anywhere?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] howto install OI Hipster 201503 onto 4TB drives?

2015-05-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 4/05/2015 9:45 AM, DraganFOSS wrote: On 05/ 4/15 01:11 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: I'm logged in as jack:jack, using pfexec Try to switch to root in live iso with: --- sudo -i Ok, that's done and I now have a mirror called rpool with 3.6ish TB of space :) I'm assuming it's possible

[OpenIndiana-discuss] howto install OI Hipster 201503 onto 4TB drives?

2015-05-03 Thread Carl Brewer
After finding out that the GUI installer for OI Hipster 201503 won't install to 2TB HDD's without losing a lot of the space, I'm told that the manual/text installer will work. Ok - can any of you help? I've put EFI labels onto my two WD red's using format -e and just labeling them as EFI.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] howto install OI Hipster 201503 onto 4TB drives?

2015-05-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 4/05/2015 9:45 AM, DraganFOSS wrote: On 05/ 4/15 01:11 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: I'm logged in as jack:jack, using pfexec Try to switch to root in live iso with: --- sudo -i That worked, thank you. Regards, Dragan ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-05-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 2/05/2015 10:02 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 1/05/2015 3:08 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Try using text installer. Last text installer images will install OI on EFI-labeled disks if whole disk install is selected so if I boot off the OI 201503 GUI ISO, but in text mode, I'll be able to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] howto install OI Hipster 201503 onto 4TB drives?

2015-05-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 4/05/2015 10:27 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 4/05/2015 9:45 AM, DraganFOSS wrote: On 05/ 4/15 01:11 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: I'm logged in as jack:jack, using pfexec Try to switch to root in live iso with: --- sudo -i Ok, that's done and I now have a mirror called rpool with 3.6ish TB

[OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day I did a bit of googling but didn't find anything. I have a new box I'm building, with 2 x 4TB WD Red HDD's to run as a 4TB mirrored rpool. I plan to build a very basic ZFS rpool box, that will be an rsync destination for a bunch of other servers at a client site - one big rpool is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
chunk? Carl j. On 4/30/15 4:40 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day I did a bit of googling but didn't find anything. I have a new box I'm building, with 2 x 4TB WD Red HDD's to run as a 4TB mirrored rpool. I plan to build a very basic ZFS rpool box, that will be an rsync destination for a bunch

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on hipster

2015-08-06 Thread Carl Brewer
I bumped my OI box up to VB 5 yesterday, apart from one error at install time that I (regrettably!) did not record but that didn't seem to stop anything anyway, it seems to have worked fine with a vanilla package from VirtualBox's download. Ie: I didn't run Jim's updated stuff and it seems to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on hipster

2015-08-06 Thread Carl Brewer
On 6/08/2015 7:24 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: With this, do you have vboxusb and vboxusbmon modules loaded (`modinfo -i | grep ox` - shows 6 drivers loaded overall on my 4.3.28 installation)? carl@hostie:~# modinfo | grep ox 218 f8921000 4ec00 290 1 vboxdrv (VirtualBox HostDrv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on hipster

2015-07-21 Thread Carl Brewer
hey Jim, et al, I'm considering bumping my VBox install on a OI 151 a8 release, from 4.3.26 to either 4.3.30 or 5.0.0 I've had no problems in the past doing this without doing anything more than a pkg install. Before I do, I did see you (Jim) did some work on the package - do you have a set

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on hipster

2015-07-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/07/2015 3:24 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: Essentially, the changes are needed to have the script install/uninstall usb drivers (you can force networking by a touchfile). If you never used these - you can probably get away with default packages. So if it's been just working for the last

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10 snapshot is available

2015-11-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 4/10/2015 8:45 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi there. We are glad to announce that OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10 snapshot is available. any chance of a torrent for the iso's at all? thank you! Carl Images: http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20151003.iso

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.04 snapshot

2016-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/04/2016 2:16 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. OI Hipster 2016.04 snapshot is ready. Images: http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20160421.iso http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20160421.usb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.04 snapshot

2016-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
is 'giving back' to the community by hosting torrents for select projects, OpenIndiana being one of them. For more details see: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160425#torrent Thank you! Carl Michael On 04/30/2016 06:49 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 22/04/2016 2:16 AM, Alexander

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.0.22 does not install under OI

2016-07-05 Thread Carl Brewer
On 25/06/2016 8:38 AM, Nikola M wrote: As before, I made patched VirtualBox package for illumos,OI, using word-by word instructions and patch from Jim Klimov at: https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh As VirtualBox-5.0.22-SunOS-amd64-r108108-illumos.tar.gz :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Running Martin's Virtualbox pkg, failing to compile keymap while using vncserver

2016-09-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 23-Sep-16 1:23 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 09/22/16 01:02 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: XKB: Failed to compile keymap Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. For this you need to have installed x11/keyboard/data-xkb & x11/keyb

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Running Martin's Virtualbox pkg, failing to compile keymap while using vncserver

2016-09-22 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I'm playing around with Martin's Virtualbox port, on OI Hipster most recent, and the box has no head, so .. vncserver! root@dumper:~/VBox# uname -a SunOS dumper 5.11 illumos-380fd67 i86pc i386 i86pc Trying to run vncserver : root@dumper:~/VBox# vncserver WARNING: The first attempt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: TEST-pkg available: Hipster's future VirtualBox-5.1.6-SunOS-amd64-r110634.pkg

2016-09-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 19/09/2016 6:51 PM, Мартин Бохниг via openindiana-discuss wrote: Пересылаемое сообщение От кого: Мартин Бохниг Кому: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list Дата: Понедельник, 19 сентября 2016, 8:50 UTC Тема: TEST-pkg available:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot

2016-11-07 Thread Carl Brewer
On 08/11/2016 7:36 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot, Carl...: root@dumper:/root# pkg update --be-name oi201610 No updates available for this image. root@dumper:/root# pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot

2016-11-07 Thread Carl Brewer
On 08/11/2016 8:52 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 08/11/2016 7:36 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot, Carl...: root@dumper:/root# pkg update --be-name oi201610 No updates available for this image. root@dumper:/root# pkg publisher

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot

2016-11-07 Thread Carl Brewer
On 3/11/2016 6:08 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot, Alexander...: OI Hipster 2016.10 snapshot is ready. Release notes: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2016.10+Release+notes I was already running hipster (last updated about a month ago)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster live DVD and USB won't boot all the way

2018-10-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 3/10/2018 5:52 AM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: I finally figured out how to continue from the debugger prompt, but it still hangs at a certain point after that.  I was unable to make the debugger interactive at the hang, so I just took a picture of the screen and transcribed the text. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster live DVD and USB won't boot all the way

2018-10-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 3/10/2018 5:52 AM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: Michal Hi again Michal and Till, I finally figured out how to continue from the debugger prompt, but it still hangs at a certain point after that.  I was unable to make the debugger interactive at the hang, so I just took a picture of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster live DVD and USB won't boot all the way

2018-10-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 10/16/18, Carl Brewer wrote: On 3/10/2018 5:52 AM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: I finally figured out how to continue from the debugger prompt, but it still hangs at a certain point after that.  I was unable to make the debugger interactive at the hang, so I just took a picture of the screen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20

2018-10-23 Thread Carl Brewer
On 24/10/2018 5:10 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20,...: Hi, On 10/22/18 07:35 PM, russell wrote: Hi, Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20 yesterday, this works fine on the BE completed on the 11th July but still get the lockup and reboot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20

2018-10-23 Thread Carl Brewer
On 24/10/2018 8:06 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:02 PM Carl Brewer wrote: But then, I need to replace my hardware as it's getting old, so I need to install a newer openIndiana, which doesn't seem to work (yet) on recent Coffee-Lake Gigabyte motherboards. At least I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20

2018-10-24 Thread Carl Brewer
On 24/10/2018 10:32 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:07 AM Carl Brewer wrote: Could you try to boot this? http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/users/aurelien/gcc-next/20181023/ It boots! Good to know! I will regenerate an image with Till's fix. Great, thank you

[OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on Gigabyte H370M motherboards?

2018-10-31 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I've had a few tries at installing OI on a new Gigabyte H370M D3H motherboard (i5 CPU). A few of you here have helped a bit, and it got to the point where it would almost start up - thank you Aurélien in particular, but I'm stuck again, trying to use a USB image to install. The MB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on Gigabyte H370M motherboards?

2018-10-31 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/11/2018 1:22 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day, I've had a few tries at installing OI on a new Gigabyte H370M D3H motherboard (i5 CPU).  A few of you here have helped a bit, and it got to the point where it would almost start up - thank you Aurélien in particular, but I'm stuck again, trying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on Gigabyte H370M motherboards?

2018-11-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/11/2018 1:37 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: The HCL says that the Intel I219 V Ethernet card is supported, I'm seeing it not, the ID it's showing as is 8086,15bc This is very close to, but not the same as, most of the other Intel I219's that show up in the HCL here : https://www.illumos.org/hcl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on Gigabyte H370M motherboards?

2018-11-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/11/2018 11:46 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 1/11/2018 1:37 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: The HCL says that the Intel I219 V Ethernet card is supported, I'm seeing it not, the ID it's showing as is 8086,15bc This is very close to, but not the same as, most of the other Intel I219's that show up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on Gigabyte H370M motherboards?

2018-11-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 2/11/2018 12:54 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: There is a "work in progress" driver update for your hardware. As soon as I can pull it I will update the repository so you can upgrade the system and test it. Thank you. In the mean time I'll find an older card and try it. It's booting up now,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Driver update to support Intel I219 v6-v9 ethernet

2018-11-02 Thread Carl Brewer
On 3/11/2018 3:51 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hi, I have generated ISOs with Robert Mustacchi's update to e1000g: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/webrevs/9950/i219.patch They will appear in a moment at: http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/users/aurelien/gcc-next/20181102/ Thank

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20

2018-10-24 Thread Carl Brewer
On 24/10/2018 8:06 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:02 PM Carl Brewer wrote: On 24/10/2018 5:10 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded to VirtualBox 5.2.20,...: Hi, On 10/22/18 07:35 PM, russell wrote: Hi, Upgraded to VirtualBox

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Driver update to support Intel I219 v6-v9 ethernet

2018-11-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 8/11/2018 10:21 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 5:12 AM Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 5:51 PM Aurélien Larcher < aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I have generated ISOs with Robert Mustacchi's update to e1000g:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox broken after updating OpenIndiana today

2019-03-25 Thread Carl Brewer
On 26/03/2019 11:58 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 24/03/2019 6:32 AM, Stephan Althaus wrote: Hi Russell! I did an update yesterday and the new Version works for me. What sort of crash do you have, any details? Wow, I thought VirtualBox support as a host was being given up on as OI diverges

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox broken after updating OpenIndiana today

2019-03-25 Thread Carl Brewer
On 24/03/2019 6:32 AM, Stephan Althaus wrote: Hi Russell! I did an update yesterday and the new Version works for me. What sort of crash do you have, any details? Wow, I thought VirtualBox support as a host was being given up on as OI diverges from Solaris?  Hopefully I'm wrong? :) Carl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VNC connections getting GOK and a magnifier, and won't let me log in!

2019-04-10 Thread Carl Brewer
On 10/04/2019 8:29 pm, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day, More info : carl@hostie:/etc/gdm/Init# ps -ef | grep gok gdm 2003 1983 0 20:21:06 ? 0:01 gok --login --access-method=directselection ps -ef | grep -i vnc noaccess 1969 619 0 20:21:05 ? 0:05 /usr/bin/Xvnc

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VNC connections getting GOK and a magnifier, and won't let me log in!

2019-04-10 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I don't know what I changed, but something has It's an old OpenSolaris server, and I'm not sure where else to ask for help, Google hasn't been helpful. Connecting to my server using a VNC viewer used to work, but as of a couple of months ago now, I get a GOK window and a half

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem installing 201904 using USB image from a windows PC

2019-06-22 Thread Carl Brewer
Hello Till, On 22/06/2019 9:51 pm, Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi It might be best to boot up the last version and do a pkg upgrade. This way you will get a new Boot Environment with the current release and can always reboot into the old aone that is already installed. I tried that;

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem installing 201904 using USB image from a windows PC

2019-06-22 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey Aurelien, thankyou On 23/06/2019 12:43 am, Aurélien Larcher wrote: You need to set the official repo as preferred and mie as non-sticky. dummies guide? On 6/22/19, Carl Brewer wrote: Hello Till, On 22/06/2019 9:51 pm, Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi It might be best to boot up the last

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem installing 201904 using USB image from a windows PC

2019-06-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 23/06/2019 12:46 am, Carl Brewer wrote: Hey Aurelien, thankyou On 23/06/2019 12:43 am, Aurélien Larcher wrote: You need to set the official repo as preferred and mie as non-sticky. dummies guide? For the archive : root@testy:~# pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem installing 201904 using USB image from a windows PC

2019-06-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 23/06/2019 12:54 am, Carl Brewer wrote: downloading now. Hope it boots! carl@testy:~$ beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created openindiana - - 63.3M static 2018-11-08 17:06 openindiana-backup-1 - - 232K static 2019-06-22

[OpenIndiana-discuss] problem installing 201904 using USB image from a windows PC

2019-06-21 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, Finally getting around to trying to install the Hipster 201905 release on a box that we managed to get a build of 201811 running on late last year (thank you Aurelien!). I used both the OsoLiveUSB and win32diskImager tools, onto a 4GB USB stick, but it gets stuck after booting at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem installing 201904 using USB image from a windows PC

2019-06-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 23/06/2019 1:49 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Enjoy :) Thank you! My concern is still that I can't install from the release, so if I have to do a reinstall etc, I'm stuck. While this is now working tactically, strategically I still have an issue. Aurelien, are you in a position to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] screen utility not working

2019-08-15 Thread Carl Brewer
On 15/08/2019 9:23 pm, Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss wrote: Hi. The issue should be solved in latest OI (osnet-incorporation@0.5.11-2019.0.0.18919:20190815T063932Z or later). Fixed here, thank you :) 0.5.11-2019.0.0.18919:20190815T063932Z Carl С уважением, Александр Пыхалов,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox thank you!

2019-09-18 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey, just a quick public thank you, VirtualBox being brought into OI and updated so quickly is great. Thank you! Carl ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana Hipster?

2019-08-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 8/08/2019 8:23 pm, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Now that the version in oi-userland was bumped to 2019 you can probably update without doing anything. Yes! carl@testy:~$ beadm list BEActive Mountpoint Space Policy Created oi2019.04 - - 13.0M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana Hipster?

2019-08-08 Thread Carl Brewer
On 8/08/2019 8:23 pm, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Now that the version in oi-userland was bumped to 2019 you can probably update without doing anything. root@testy:~# pkg image-update --be-name oi20190808 Packages to install: 50 Packages to update: 623 Mediators

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana Hipster?

2019-07-23 Thread Carl Brewer
On 23/07/2019 9:55 pm, Aurélien Larcher wrote: You can create a new BE, remove the offending package after relaxing the incorporation, then update. I did that on my server. Ok, really dumb question, are there instructions for how to do this somewhere?

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