Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from IR to IT mode on a LSI SAS2008 card

2012-02-08 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Yuri Vorobyev vo...@yamalfin.ru wrote: 09.02.2012 7:42, Geoff Nordli пишет: I have a Supermicro X8DTH-6F with a built-in SAS2008. I thought it was just an HBA, but when I went to update the firmware on the card it told me it was setup as IR mode. I plan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from IR to IT mode on a LSI SAS2008 card

2012-02-09 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: I have a Supermicro X8DTH-6F with a built-in SAS2008. I thought it was just an HBA, but when I went to update the firmware on the card it told me it was setup as IR mode. I plan on flashing it to IT mode.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] comstar iscsi target writeback cache flushed interval

2012-03-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
Hi. Can someone tell me how often data is flushed from a comstar iscsi target when the writeback cache is enabled? thanks, Geoff ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] comstar iscsi target writeback cache flushed interval

2012-03-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Mar 6, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi. Can someone tell me how often data is flushed from a comstar iscsi target when the writeback cache is enabled? Periodic flushing is done by the backing

[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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana

2012-03-23 Thread Geoff Nordli
heavily committed at this point, so this isn't a problem I can chase. I have, however, elsewhere recently offered to help other illumos developers who want to see this resolved. Cheers, Bayard On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:34 AM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: I have been using vbox 4.1.x

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Interest in OpenIndiana VPS host?

2012-09-08 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 12-09-07 06:19 PM, Adam Del Vecchio wrote: Hello, Would there be any interest in an Xen VPS host that provided OpenIndiana as an option for installation on the server? I would be interested in hosting where we could have a mixture of dedicated OI and Linux Ubuntu servers. We would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 12-10-23 04:52 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: Hi, I am facing a problem with zfs receive through ssh. As usually, root can't log on ssh; the log on users can't receive a zfs stream (rights problem), and pfexec is disabled on the target host (as I understand it is nowadays default for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [SPAM?] Re: using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

2013-03-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-03-03 04:43 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: If Vbox did try to install the crossbow driver, he should have noticed it fail to load as there are three kernel calls that that driver expects to find but will be unable to find. In any case, the vbox streams driver is problematic and cuts off

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [SPAM?] Re: [SPAM?] Re: using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

2013-03-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-03-04 03:01 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 01:22 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote: On 13-03-03 04:43 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: If Vbox did try to install the crossbow driver, he should have noticed it fail to load as there are three kernel calls that that driver expects

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [SPAM?] Re: [SPAM?] Re: [SPAM?] Re: [SPAM?] Re: using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, I

2013-03-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-03-07 09:40 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 03:02 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 12:56 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Yes, it has been running for about a year now without a problem. They probably only have 3-4 active calls, but still

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Limit - 255 iSCSI targets

2013-03-25 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-03-25 08:06 AM, Shvayakov A. wrote: Hi, I wanted to create a new target, but got message - Maximum of 255 iSCSI targets Anyone know a nice way to get around this limitation? thanks You can create LUNs which gets around the 255 target limitation.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?

2013-03-26 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-03-26 07:29 PM, Gerry Weaver wrote: Hello All, I have been checking out OpenIndiana as a possible file server and KVM host. I have read in a couple of places that the OS is stable despite its development release status. Would anyone be so kind as to share their experiences using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for capable notebook for OI and other OSes, small size and with real network.

2013-03-27 Thread Geoff Nordli
In the specs it says: Connectivity Wired: Integrated Intel 82579M/V 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet I have an M4500, which has been a good machine, though I am running Ubuntu on it. On 13-03-27 09:42 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I checked the new version: a precision m4700 laptop. I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Limit - 255 iSCSI targets

2013-04-01 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-03-31 01:20 AM, Mike La Spina wrote: The maximum is actually 1024 on the iscsi port end: xref: /illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/comstar/port/iscsit/iscsit.h 55/* Max targets per system */ 56#define ISCSIT_MAX_TARGETS 1024 How have you determined it's 255? Hi Mike. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Limit - 255 iSCSI targets

2013-04-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
be a possible use case. Also with the ever increasing hardware capability emerging 255 will soon become a low limit. Regards, Mike On 2013-04-01, at 7:59 AM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.netmailto:geo...@gnaa.net wrote: On 13-03-31 01:20 AM, Mike La Spina wrote: The maximum is actually 1024 on the iscsi

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

2013-04-11 Thread Geoff Nordli
I have a couple of all-in-one server OI+Vbox servers running. Supermicro X8DTH-6F 32GB of RAM Seagate Constellation ES SAS Drives (both 1 and 2TB drives; the SEAGATE-ST1000NM0001 is the 1TB version). These have been really solid boxes and I am virtualizing Ws08R2, centos (running a pbx) and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual Desktop

2011-03-17 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 16 March 2011 23:01, David nonot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does OpenIndiana offer something analogous to the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution? I'm not familiar with Oracle VDI, so perhaps this is a nonsensical question. (I'm assuming it's something like a Terminal Server on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is there any implementation of VSS for a ZFS iSCSI snapshot on Solaris?

2011-09-28 Thread Geoff Nordli
On September 14, 2011 05:05:33 PM S Joshi wrote: I am using a Solaris + ZFS environment to export a iSCSI block layer device and use the snapshot facility to take a snapshot of the ZFS volume. Is there an existing Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) implementation on Windows for this environment?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is there any implementation of VSS for a ZFS iSCSI snapshot on Solaris?

2011-09-30 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Leonid Korokh lkor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When you are exporting block device via ISCSI to Windows host, Windows see it like a direct attached scsi disk. VSS is the feature of Windows and it works on block level of the disk device. So snapshots made by VSS

[OpenIndiana-discuss] fault-tolerant distributed file systems

2011-10-31 Thread Geoff Nordli
I am looking for a fault-tolerant distributed file system to store medium sized files (150MB-4GB) which can scale across 100s of servers and keep N replicas of each file. MooseFS looks interesting, but I don't like the single point of failure of the master server. The development on that project

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fault-tolerant distributed file systems

2011-11-03 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Paolo Marcheschi paolo.marches...@ftgm.it wrote: On 11/ 1/11 11:05 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Paolo Marcheschi paolo.marches...@ftgm.it  wrote: HDFS can be mounted: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MountableHDFS Hi Paolo. Have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Harry, I'd stick with VirtualBox if you're not looking to do anything serious. For example, say you just want to run Windows on your OI desktop. Especially if you're using the VirtualBox GUI. One issue that

[OpenIndiana-discuss] adding SPICE to KVM

2011-12-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
There has been some effort to expand the functionality of the KVM port. Does anyone know if adding SPICE functionality to KVM is a feature people are looking at? thanks, Geoff ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-11 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Harry, I'd stick with VirtualBox if you're not looking to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Nikola M minik...@gmail.com wrote: Geoff Nordli wrote: Vbox has a new crossbow network stack, but it only works on Solaris 11 builds = 159. I am not sure what it would take to make it work properly with OI, but that would be nice. Geoff Do you know on what

[OpenIndiana-discuss] updates to the pkg.openindiana.org/dev repository

2011-12-14 Thread Geoff Nordli
I can't recall applying any since the original install of o151a just after the release. Have there been any updates into this repository over the past couple of months or do I not have it setup properly? this is what I have setup ass the publisher: PUBLISHER TYPE

[OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-01-09 Thread Geoff Nordli
Running OI151a on a Supermicro X8DTH-6F board, which has an LSI 2008 8-Port 6Gbps SAS controller, with 8 SAS internal drives, plus an SSD for the boot disk. I am running the mpt_sas driver. The server became unresponsive to any commands (couldn't even do a remote reboot). I did a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-01-09 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST1000NM0001     Revision: 0001 Serial No: Z1N00DTCS12 Size: 1000.20GB 1000204886016 bytes Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 2 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-01-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: btw as of november there is likely new firmware for your lsi card. you might want to take this opportunity to upgrade. j Hi Jason. Where do you see the firmware upgrade for that card? It is a built-in SAS controller

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-01-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Maurilio Longo maurilio.lo...@libero.it wrote: Martin, you can set a timeout with lsiutil, but I've found that it makes no difference, if a consumer grade disk starts trying to read a failing sector it can block a pool indefinitely. Best regards.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-06-07 09:09 AM, ken mays wrote: OpenSXCE provides the most recent snapshot release of the Illumos kernel at this time (i.e. 2-4 weeks). The distro also works on nearly all of the SPARC/x86_64 servers that worked with the OpenSolaris distribution. Hi Ken. Are you saying your plan here

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana GlusterFS support

2013-06-19 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-06-18 01:03 PM, Heiko L. wrote: Hallo Alberto, Randy Can you please comment which production problems have you found using your implementation?. My tests started on 30.04. Cluster is not in production yet. The next step is the installation of two VMs for test of performance. The main

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

2013-07-11 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-07-11 09:30 AM, Laurent Blume wrote: On 2013-07-11 6:56 PM, James Carlson wrote: It works for me. I used to use Samba, but I had many problems with it, and I'm really not at all interested in developing anything for it. Developing what? It's already here. You would be developing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

2013-07-11 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-07-11 01:47 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-07-11 22:40, Geoff Nordli wrote: Plus things like: File Server Remote VSS Protocol (FSRVP) for snapshots. Interesting in their wiki they actually name ZFS as an option. I highly doubt that is going to find its way into the illumos cifs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

2013-07-11 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-07-11 07:25 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-07-12 02:43, Geoff Nordli wrote: The FSRVP could initiate a snapshot from the windows machine. Right now the windows machine consumes snapshots via the previous versions from snapshots initiated on the zfs side. I see. Well, it is different

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 4TB SAS drive with 4KB sectors (Advanced Format)

2013-07-30 Thread Geoff Nordli
I am looking at building a new pool with 4KB sectors. Does the ST4000NM0023 Constellation ES.3 4TB SAS drive work properly? Any other suggestions for a 4TB SAS drive? thanks, Geoff ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Yikes my new install is frozeup in Vbox

2013-08-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-08-07 08:03 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Thanks for the heads up about that. I didn't notice anthing particularly compelling about 4.2 so wouldn't mind backing off. Its very good to know about things like this before making a costly move ... thanks. We are using 4.1 in production and it is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] kcifs admin shares and using computer management to create shares

2013-08-13 Thread Geoff Nordli
In order to create shares from a Windows machine using Computer Management, it seems you need to have admin share available. There is one for the C$ which is mapped to /var/smb/cvol I see computer management uses a path that starts with a B:\x to reference drives. and I would expect

[OpenIndiana-discuss] restore smb SIDs

2013-08-22 Thread Geoff Nordli
I have a backup system, that I would like to restore the smb related users and their SIDs. Any clues on what files I need to copy over in order to recover the users? The server is in workgroup mode. Where is the SID database held? thanks, Geoff

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] restore smb SIDs

2013-08-27 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-08-27 10:58 AM, real-men-dont-cl...@gmx.net wrote: -Original message- From: Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net Sent: Thu 22-08-2013 17:41 Subject:[OpenIndiana-discuss] restore smb SIDs To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org; I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Accessing smb shares from windows

2013-09-25 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-09-25 06:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Rich rerc...@acm.jhu.edu writes: You don't _need_ an AD domain for it, but you probably need a method of mapping users between your Windows host and your Solaris host. The errors in your log say that you have guest access disabled - what account are

[OpenIndiana-discuss] need compiler for apcupsd

2013-10-03 Thread Geoff Nordli
I need to compile apcupsd. It seems like a pretty easy process using this guide. http://barbz.com.au/blog/?p=194 The part I am not sure about is getting the proper compiler setup. When I run the configure script: ./configure checking for true... /usr/gnu/bin/true checking for false...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] need compiler for apcupsd

2013-10-03 Thread Geoff Nordli
awesome, that was easy. thanks!!! On 13-10-03 11:15 AM, Italo Santos wrote: You can install gcc-dev package: # pkg install gcc-dev At. Italo Santos http://italosantos.com.br/ On Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: I need to compile apcupsd. It seems like a pretty

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] need compiler for apcupsd

2013-10-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-10-04 10:06 AM, Laurent Blume wrote: Hello, If it can help, there's a package that I use on S10 and has been tested on S11: http://www.opencsw.org/packages/CSWapcupsd/ Laurent On 03/10/2013 20:05, Geoff Nordli wrote: I need to compile apcupsd. It seems like a pretty easy process using

[OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

2013-10-09 Thread Geoff Nordli
I was doing an upgrade of vboxsvc on one of my machines and I noticed the zvolrights smf: http://sourceforge.net/p/vboxsvc/code/HEAD/tree/usr/share/doc/vboxsvc/README-zvolrights.txt Are people using that successfully to be able to run VirtualBox VMs under a non-root level user? Right now

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

2013-10-17 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-10-09 06:48 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-10-09 08:18, Geoff Nordli wrote: I was doing an upgrade of vboxsvc on one of my machines and I noticed the zvolrights smf: http://sourceforge.net/p/vboxsvc/code/HEAD/tree/usr/share/doc/vboxsvc/README-zvolrights.txt Are people using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

2013-10-17 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-10-17 12:46 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-10-17 21:11, Geoff Nordli wrote: I decided to just go with the iscsi targets for now. I wonder if they too have implications of access rights (to device nodes). BTW, what do you use as initiator - the VirtualBox itself, or the OS it runs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

2013-10-18 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-10-17 09:42 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-10-17 23:35, Geoff Nordli wrote: I use the built in vbox initiator. Not the highest performing setup, but these are small business services and disk IO isn't the biggest issue we have. I am using it for automated backup system. I virtualize

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: zpool really slow

2013-10-29 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-10-29 12:54 PM, Clement BRIZARD wrote: Hello everybody, my zpool lately is really slow, I had a problem last week, it said that some disks failed, after a resilver everything was fine. I currently have that pool: nas state: ONLINE scan: resilvered 1.45G in 5h34m with 0 errors on

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

2013-11-15 Thread Geoff Nordli
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using 151a8 in production

2013-11-27 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-11-24 11:12 PM, David Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello folks I am a newbie to openindiana. I am considering using the 151a8 version as a production server, the server will perform the following 1) Server files via samba and NFS 2) Run around 10 virtual machines using

[OpenIndiana-discuss] add recent igb driver to 151a8

2013-11-29 Thread Geoff Nordli
I have an intel 210 network card on a new server. Can someone point me to some steps on how to add the more recent igb driver to OI 151a8 during the install phase? thanks, Geoff ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs send-receive on same machine breaks cifs sharing

2013-12-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
Garbiele, how did you end up handling this. I came across the same issue. How I fixed it, is I created the backup data set first, then I set the sharesmb property to off. Now when I send snapshots, it doesn't enable the sharing. Geoff On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Gabriele Bulfon

[OpenIndiana-discuss] updating igb driver on 151a8

2013-12-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
I have an I210 intel nic I would like to use with OI. Can someone point me to some instructions on how to get the latest igb driver and configure it on OI to use the i210? thanks, Geoff ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] updating igb driver on 151a8

2013-12-09 Thread Geoff Nordli
Samsung Mobile Исходное сообщение От: Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net Дата: 2013.12.07 1:45 (GMT+01:00) Кому: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Тема: [OpenIndiana-discuss] updating igb driver on 151a8 I have an I210 intel nic I would like

[OpenIndiana-discuss] real-time syncing two directories across servers (unison ?)

2013-12-11 Thread Geoff Nordli
Any ideas on real-time (or near real-time) syncing a folder structure between two servers at different sites. I am thinking multi-master so people can write to both servers. Folders on both servers are going to be shared out via CIFS. I am not too concerned about conflict or conflict

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] real-time syncing two directories across servers (unison ?)

2013-12-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-12-11 06:29 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: On 12/11/2013 8:13 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Gregory Youngblood [mailto:greg...@youngblood.me] Check out owncloud. The open source components might be useful. I personally, and two other IT guys that I've spoken with from

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

2013-12-19 Thread Geoff Nordli
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos-watch - Dec 2013/Jan 2014

2014-02-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-02-07 02:30 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hey All, illumos-watch is out, covering December and January: http://everycity.co.uk/blog/2014/02/illumos-watch-january-2014/ Enjoy! Thanks for the heads up on this. Lots of great enhancements. In your search did you see anything with SMB2.1

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

2014-02-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
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

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

2014-02-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
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

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

2014-02-13 Thread Geoff Nordli
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 :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive update -- possible big mess?

2014-03-28 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-03-28 04:12 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: oi -b 151_a8 running in A vbox vm on win7 64bit host. The OS was installed into the vbox vm some 6-8 mnths ago. I let it set from Dec 2013 until a week or so ago. uname: SunOS oi 5.11 oi_151a8 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris I ran the pkg manager

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] kernel panic in nsmb module

2014-04-17 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-04-17 01:20 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: I am running OI 151a8. I had a kernel panic today. I have the dump file so I can provide more detail if needed. Should I send this over to the illumos list or can someone help me here? thanks, Geoff TIME UUID SUNW-MSG

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] kernel panic in nsmb module

2014-04-21 Thread Geoff Nordli
Thanks Gordon. Any idea if that has been merged into illumos gate yet? On 14-04-21 06:04 PM, Gordon Ross wrote: You need this fix: https://github.com/Nexenta/illumos-nexenta/commit/9a60a9d168313d9c350f813abccc6320879ad9b5 On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is this project still active

2014-10-10 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-10-10 01:22 PM, Mark Stephens wrote: I am trying to decide if I should go with Omnios or OpenIndiana for my storage needs. So I would like to ask is this project still under active development? I do not see much activity on the website or any other medium such a twitter. If you were

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] retrieve individual files from snapshot of vbox virtual disc

2014-12-24 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 14-12-24 01:36 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Build 151_a9 I have the time slider running on a zfs-fs that covers the area where my virtual box guests live. I need some files from a gentoo linux guest. I have snaps of the vms OS v-discs. How to get an individual file out of there? Is there any

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Arc and L2arc hit rate

2015-03-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 15-03-12 07:37 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: Hi, I have 12 GB RAM, 20 GB total pool size machine. L2ARC for one pool is 107G SSD. I am wondering a bit about: - why not more of the RAM is used by ARC (I have run the ARC optimisation script from the evil tuning guide, there machine is file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on hipster

2015-07-24 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 15-07-23 01:17 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 23 июля 2015 г. 21:31:07 CEST, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net пишет: On 15-07-22 11:14 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 23 июля 2015 г. 1:31:23 CEST, Carl Brewer c...@bl.echidna.id.au пишет: On 22/07/2015 3:24 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: Essentially, the changes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on hipster

2015-07-23 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 15-07-22 11:14 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 23 июля 2015 г. 1:31:23 CEST, Carl Brewer c...@bl.echidna.id.au пишет: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on hipster

2015-07-24 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 15-07-24 06:28 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: In message 55b1da86.3060...@gnaa.net, Geoff Nordli writes: OK, I guess it was just wishful thinking on the crossbow side of things. What happens under OI when you assign a Crossbox VNIC as a VBox bridged adapter? John, it works fine, you just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to manage a send over ssh

2017-03-23 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-03-23 05:35 PM, jason matthews wrote: On 3/23/17 4:49 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: When you are done, your hash should look something like this: jason:$2a$16$2ynmKaAAnKZYWLF8umslZeHjkVIX6iDLsx345k59rVkBF/ 8zWdCqO:17248:: If someone can crack this hash I will buy you a beer.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to manage a send over ssh

2017-03-23 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-03-23 11:11 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: This is my first actual usage of send/receive. I see the examples given here: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/gbchx.html#gbinw host1# zfs send tank/dana@snap1 | ssh host2 zfs recv newtank/dana Note the `#' sign .. so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

2017-03-27 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-03-25 05:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Cleaning out a machine I'm about to bring down and reinstall hipster in place of 151_9 that has been running there. I found one stubborn snapshot that zfs destroy just will not remove. Tried -f flag -r and -R flags The zfs message says the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-27 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-03-27 01:40 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Trying to learn how to use mbuffer and tamp to do zfs send/receive rather than ssh which is pretty slow even on my home gigabit lan at home where there is very little traffic. So far using ready made examples from posters on this group or a few I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-28 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-03-27 09:33 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> writes: [...] Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give arcfour a try and see if that is fast en

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-27 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-03-27 07:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> writes: [...] Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give arcfour a try and see if that is fast enough for you. Can that be done on ssh command line or must be done in ssh_

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

2017-04-12 Thread Geoff Nordli
Yes, look at omnios discuss, I ran into the same issue. https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com/msg08090.html basically the answer is this: build# pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.1.18-SunOS-amd64-r114002.pkg . all Transferring package instance build# rm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

2017-04-14 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-04-13 10:06 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 14.04.2017 05:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> writes: basically the answer is this: build# pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.1.18-SunOS-amd64-r114002.pkg . all Transferring package instance bui

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based network monitoring that runs on OI? What's your favourite?

2017-05-10 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-05-10 11:45 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based network...: What NMSes are you using, any that will run in OI? OI has packages for Zabbix, which is what I would call a traditional monitoring solution. It can do both

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.2.14 crashing when attempting to start VM

2018-07-24 Thread Geoff Nordli
What is the last successful version of Vbox you have used on OI. I use VBox 5.0.x on OmniOS. The last time I tried anything newer there were issues. Geoff On 2018-07-24 11:15 AM, russell wrote: Hi, After upgrading to the latest hipster on the 22nd July I did not attempt to start any VMs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to boot from BE created today

2018-11-02 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2018-11-02 1:59 p.m., Till Wegmüller wrote: Ah yeah that is a quite old one :) You need to use the bootadm from the new BE. Greetings Till On 11/02/18 09:36 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: On 2018-11-02 12:38 p.m., Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi Russel Did /var/adm/messages Say anything about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to boot from BE created today

2018-11-02 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2018-11-02 12:38 p.m., Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi Russel Did /var/adm/messages Say anything about the rebooting? Like a Panic? Greetings Till On 11/02/18 07:47 PM, russell wrote: Hi, Today I performed a pkg refresh and update to create a new BE, I did however make my previous BE the active

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox

2018-11-13 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2018-11-13 12:15 p.m., Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:30 PM Stephan Althaus < stephan.alth...@duedinghausen.eu> wrote: Hello! First many thanks to Aurélien Larcherfor the immense work. If someone could provide a installable pkg i would like to test as well. In the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox

2018-11-14 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2018-11-13 8:42 p.m., Stephan Althaus wrote: Hi! If you are on OmniOs / Omniosce, you have Bhyve. You can use that instead of virtualbox. With Openindiana, you could use QEMU-KVM as well.. What are your personal reasons not to do so? Greetings, Stephan On 14.11.18 02:03, Geoff Nordli

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox

2018-12-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
I was just told there is now a vbox package for omnios. That is awesome news and kudos to the Omnios and OI community for getting vbox to work on illumos. On 2018-12-07 9:31 a.m., Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi. Any ideas on how I could convert the OI package to install on Omnios?   I know

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox

2018-12-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
Hi. Any ideas on how I could convert the OI package to install on Omnios?   I know the GUI part won't work.  I am just looking for the command line part. thanks, Geoff On 2018-12-06 10:11 a.m., Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss wrote: Hello. VirtualBox 5.2.22 is available from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hypervisor support

2019-03-13 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-03-13 6:17 a.m., Jim Klimov wrote: Also FWIW I've just recently cut a long-overdue release 0.18 of http://vboxsvc.sf.net/ aka https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxsvc/ now. It is a package for wrapping individual virtual boxes as SMF instances and optionally adding regular health checks

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox is core dumping

2019-09-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
thing I can think of here is that this machine has a "newer" Intel Xeon Silver 4110 Processor. Any other thoughts? thanks, Geoff Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Re: Virtualbox is core dumping Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 12:43:08 -0700 From: Ge

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox is core dumping

2019-09-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-09-04 10:53 a.m., Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi. I posted this a couple of days on the omnios list, but haven't gotten much feedback. I am hoping someone here might have some clues as OI and Omnios share the same vbox code.  Posted below is some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] upgrade from hipster 2015 to 2019 failing

2019-07-16 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-07-15 10:15 p.m., support staff wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my hipster-2015, I've changed the publisher and tried the following root@openindiana:/# pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION openindiana.org origin online F

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] upgrade from hipster 2015 to 2019 failing

2019-07-16 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-07-15 11:15 p.m., Geoff Nordli wrote: On 2019-07-15 10:15 p.m., support staff wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my hipster-2015, I've changed the publisher and tried the following root@openindiana:/# pkg publisher PUBLISHER   TYPE STATUS P LOCATION openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] upgrade from hipster 2015 to 2019 failing

2019-07-16 Thread Geoff Nordli
BE. ($BE_MNT/sbin/bootadm update-archive -R $BE_MNT) 4. Reboot to new BE Greetings Till On 2019-07-16 08:15, Geoff Nordli wrote: On 2019-07-15 10:15 p.m., support staff wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my hipster-2015, I've changed the publisher and tried the following root@openindiana:/# pkg publisher

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox is core dumping

2019-10-01 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-09-06 10:38 a.m., Michal Nowak wrote: On 09/04/19 08:06 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: On 2019-09-04 10:40 a.m., Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 9/4/19 10:20 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi. I posted this a couple of days on the omnios list, but haven't gotten much feedback. I am hoping someone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated Intel network driver

2019-10-01 Thread Geoff Nordli
I can confirm the new text images properly detect and configure the i40e card. thanks, Geoff On 2019-09-25 1:48 p.m., Michal Nowak wrote: I rebuild Text images at ftp://openqa.oi.mnowak.cz, now they should have the driver. Michal On 09/25/19 09:39 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi. I got

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox is core dumping

2019-10-01 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-10-01 10:31 a.m., Michal Nowak wrote: On 10/01/19 05:03 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: Hi. I have a core dump if someone is able to look at it and give me some clues. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cq99x55uj7gspka/vmdump.0.OI.20190925?dl=1 All am doing is default install (text installer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox kernel module not loading - mixed version?

2019-10-17 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-10-17 4:33 p.m., Carl Brewer wrote: G'day, Trying to get a VM running on a test server, OI pkg updated from about a month ago, I see this : "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting" I suspect I have a version of the kernel that's been updated, but VB is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and smap

2019-10-16 Thread Geoff Nordli
Hi. Sending to both lists as the vbox code is shared. Does smap need to be disabled if using the Virtualbox shipped with OI and Omnios? On Omnios I needed to disable smap otherwise the system would kernel dump. thanks, Geoff ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox kernel module not loading - mixed version?

2019-10-25 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2019-10-23 10:31 p.m., Michal Nowak wrote: Please, run the long mdb command on the dump file from the https://illumos.org/docs/user-guide/debug-systems/#gathering-information-from-a-crash-dump document echo '::panicinfo\n::cpuinfo -v\n::threadlist -v

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