Re: [smartos-discuss] HYPER-V

Do you mean running a Hyper-V server under KVM as a guest OS? I don't believe there's really any support, and any Hyper-V guests will be under two layers of virtualization and will be very slow. At the very least you'll want to switch your NIC (and probably drive controller) to VirtIO. (Make sure

Re: [smartos-discuss] Need help on crashed system

It sounds like you may be new to ZFS, so apologies if some of what follows seems elementary. (In which case you omitted some key details.) However your first priority before anything else (and not SmartOS specific) is to get a copy (or two!) of your original /zones pool. Take that other mirrored

Re: [smartos-discuss] HA compute node question

I wouldn't call your thinking "incorrect", but it is a different paradigm from VMWare/Hyper-V and similar. SDC/Triton is "opinionated" that HA/Redundancy/etc should be at the application layer, which aligns well with the increasingly prevailing "modern" design pattern of so-called

Re: [smartos-discuss] Poor network performance on 10GbE over VLAN

On Nov 9, 2017 8:33 PM, "Denis Cheong" wrote: Thanks Robert, that explains it - frustrating to have spent the last few days trying to isolate the issue, but at least it has a good explanation that is fixable. I wonder if there is something Joyent and/or the community

Re: [smartos-discuss] vmadm send -> receive not working

(Obligatory reminder that vmadm send/receive are not supported, considered experimental, etc, and to use your judgement depending on what and how badly is failing.) Looking at the error, first thing I'd do is check who actually owns /zones/a701146d-3790-4150-92b8-3e30731b7b34/root ? (And I assume

Re: [smartos-discuss] Reminder & update: Oct 12 SmartOS/OmniOS/OI/illumos user meeting at Erlangen, Germany

Excellent news. Any chance the presentations will be recorded and posted online? > On Oct 3, 2017, at 2:43 AM, Peter Kelm wrote: > > All, > > Some momentum has built over the past weeks around the > SmartOS/OmniOS/OI/illumos meetup. Erigones, a software company from

Re: [smartos-discuss] Not understanding

For initial setup, I'd ditch the second NIC. For the zone definition, make sure the nic_tag is same as the GZ. (Should be "admin") Also, this might be obvious, but you're showing IP's of 192.168.x.x, but subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, so... double check the basics? On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:21

Re: [smartos-discuss] About maxbw setttings in vm JSON

(My answer is basic and likely incomplete, others may have better details, but since nobody has answered yet...) If I understand your question correctly, you're asking if you configure the networking bandwidth during zone creation with vmadm? I can 99.8% say that no, you cannot. VMadm

Re: [smartos-discuss] can't boot SmartOS on H170/B150/B250 chipset with latest BIOS on Giga motherboard

If you compare the release notes of the intermediate bios updates, what's changed between the old and current bios versions? Did you try resetting bios settings to default, and/or looking at what might have been reset? (Many updates reset to default) Also, which SmartOS release are you using? On

Re: [smartos-discuss] Triton hardware in a distributed system

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > One of the problems that I have just learned about from another message > that I had posted to community was that Triton and CoaL will need a USB-Key > to install as there may be some write-back data that will need

Re: [smartos-discuss] Etherstub and vnics for KVM machines

I could be missing something, but "vmadm update UUID -f /path/to/update.json" should work. It's not immediately obvious, but the info is in the vmadm manpage. In the case of nics and disks, there are 3 special objects: add_disks || add_nics remove_disks || remove_nics update_disks || update_nics

[smartos-discuss] Re: Ansible zone provision example?

(I suppose a bit of missing context: modules for vmadm and imgadm are now in Ansible stable (2.3): https://blog.jasper.la/ansible-modules-for-smartos-imgadm-and-vmadm/ On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > Anyone have a working (full

Re: Proposal: SmartOS/OmniOS/OI/illumos user group meeting in Germany - interested? / Re: [smartos-discuss] To the OmniOS, OI and SmartOS community

If you're not familiar with it, meetup.com is a service/site that's worked well for me. https://www.meetup.com/cities/de/ should get you started. On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:10 AM, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter < j...@internetx.com> wrote: > Definitely interested > > Juergen (located in

Re: [smartos-discuss] (Possibly OT) Joyent pkgsrc

.) For instance, if I have a question and I'm not sure if it's an upstream-specific issue or Joyent-specific, where would I start? Etc. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Robert Mustacchi <r...@joyent.com> wrote: > On 5/17/17 23:01 , Matthew Parsons wrote: > > (Usual disclaimers, b

Re: [smartos-discuss] zone stuck in "down" state after shutdown: unable to unmount lofs filesystem

Yes, mounted and actively reading. Should I try just forcing it to unmount zone/UUID/mnt... ? On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Robert Mustacchi <r...@joyent.com> wrote: > On 5/18/17 0:36 , Matthew Parsons wrote: > > zone1 is a simple (native) fileserver, serving up a zfs fi

[smartos-discuss] zone stuck in "down" state after shutdown: unable to unmount lofs filesystem

zone1 is a simple (native) fileserver, serving up a zfs filesystem (let's call it "TheFiles") mounted via lofs. zone2 is an LX container for running backup software, accessing the same filesystem via lofs in read-only mode. (It's quite possible that last part is very inadvisable, known to be a

[smartos-discuss] (Possibly OT) Joyent pkgsrc

(Usual disclaimers, but I've scoured pkgsrc.joyent.com for info, so possibly could use some fixing) Is this the best place to report issues/requests with your packages? I was looking for "fio" that is listed at http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/benchmarks/fio/, and in the joyent

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating KVMs

I've not used it for pulling from SmartOS/KVM, but I've had great success w/ the VMWare converter in the past doing P2V, both linux and windows. This was in the RHEL/CentOS 5-ish/ Server 2003/2008 era, with a VMWare support contract, mind you, so I don't know what your situation is, but if

Re: [smartos-discuss] Problem updating Debian 8.7 (jessie) zone

, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > What happens if you use "apt dist-upgrade" instead? > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Jesus Cea <j...@jcea.es> wrote: > >> On 10/05/17 13:54, Jesus Cea wrote: >> > On 09/05/17

Re: [smartos-discuss] Problem updating Debian 8.7 (jessie) zone

What happens if you use "apt dist-upgrade" instead? On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: > On 10/05/17 13:54, Jesus Cea wrote: > > On 09/05/17 16:37, Christopher Horrell wrote: > >> Hi Jesús, > >> > >> On a new debian-8 20170214 (e74a9cd0-f2d0-11e6-8b69-b3acf2ef87f7)

Re: [smartos-discuss] WARNING: 2016Q4 / 16.4.0 upgrade failures

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > To those of you running 16.4.0 images, there is an issue introduced > with the recent OpenSSL 1.0.2k update where a 'pkgin upgrade' will > render the pkg_install tools unusable, due to removing the previous > openssl

Re: [smartos-discuss] Re: New to SmartOS - Creating an Ansible-managed setup, networking

I'm not super-solid on Solaris(h) networking, but: You're using a KVM (Linux? Windows?) guest to host your DHCP? (I'll assume you have a good reason ;) Are you just wanting an internal only, let the guests talk to each other, try ansible out test setup? (Sounds like LX zones for the DHCP clients,

[smartos-discuss] Available images status and upkeep

What is the driving factor(s) for if an image line is kept up or abandoned? The couple time I've tried anything besides a basic image, it either outright was broken (percona) or been woefully outdated (wordpress). I expect it's mostly a manpower vs. interest/usage issue, just would like to know

Re: [smartos-discuss] A quick SmartOS wishlist, FWIW

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: > The way we presently support this is by first creating an image from > an existing instance, and then creating a new instance from the image. > Thank you! That's the most succinct and clear explanation I've found. >

[smartos-discuss] Partly OT: Can someone better explain multiarch to me?

I expect this is more of a beginner pkgsrc question, but the documentation I can find on the multi-arch images is minimal. ( https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/multiarch-package-support-in-smartos.html ) I understand the general high-level concept but not the practical realities from an admin

[smartos-discuss] A quick SmartOS wishlist, FWIW

(Usual caveats in case there's a command or approach I'm missing) I expect has been discussed to death, and I understand the reasoning / targeting use case for smartos, but still I would like vmadm and related to honor fully or first-matching aliases. That being said: vmadm UUID/alias

Re: [smartos-discuss] LX zones slow logins

n <https://docs.project-fifo.net/en/latest/index.html> > Tickets: > GPG: Ticket Tracker <https://project-fifo.atlassian.net/> > 452B6F98 <https://project-fifo.net/heinz.gpg> > > On 3 Jan 2017, at 02:44, Matthew Parsons <matt...@aspergerexperts.com> > wrote: > >

[smartos-discuss] LX zones slow logins

So now we need LX zones. (Hooray for changing requirements!) Anyone else seen really long logins for zlogin? On Debian/Ubuntu LX images, zlogin will immediately display the "[Connected to zone 'UUID']" message, then take about 11 seconds before displaying "last login" and the Joyent Logo banner,

Re: [smartos-discuss] Bhyve Hyper

I'm pretty sure I gave SmartOS a quick spin under Veertu ( https://veertu.com/) on OSX, which uses the native hypervisor.framework. Never quite figured out if that is just using bhyve or xhyve ( https://github.com/mist64/xhyve) or not. I know it works well enough under Virtualbox, at least just

Re: [smartos-discuss] percona-server-5.7.14 DB wrong DB initialisation

Thank you for logging that, I ran into the same issue. (And this was after abandoning the pre-built percona image - may or may not have been related, mind). SSH'd on the host, I had to zlogin with the -C(onsole) option, then was able to GRANT to 'root'@'127.0.0.1', etc. On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at

Re: [smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing - NEC/Renesas 1094

Also, along the same lines, what's the status/roadmap for USB 3.1/Thunderbolt support? On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > Thanks - sorry for the delay, I was mostly off work mode for the holiday, > plus testing requires rebooting

Re: [smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing - NEC/Renesas 1094

you (are planning to) support? (I assume there's a github section or somesuch to peruse, but my ability to parse that is uncertain.) On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Robert Mustacchi <r...@joyent.com> wrote: > On 11/21/16 18:24 , Matthew Parsons wrote: > > I took a whack at it w/

[smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing - NEC/Renesas 1094

I took a whack at it w/ home desktop w/ a fairly old NEC/Renesas: https://gist.github.com/Scandalon/bfa285e4e8379a387c09cc8089653323 Surprisingly it booted off the USB3 port, but after that, no dice. Results were the same booted off USB2 port, as well - plugging in any spec device to the USB3

Re: [smartos-discuss] SMB mount failures if resource is on a lofs mount

Have you checked for differences between what the zone sees for ownership/permissions between the local/delegated and what's presented by lofs? On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Chris Ridd wrote: > Hi, > > I’m migrating from samba to the SMB service in a zone, and have >

Re: [smartos-discuss] About install pkgin in global zone

FWIW, I just worked through all those issues myself a couple weeks ago. :P You're correct about the path variabls, AFAIK. Per Mr. Perkin's informative post, there's a post at

Re: [smartos-discuss] Windows image in https://images.joyent.com

I expect that's only partially true - while I'm sure someone at AWS and GCE has spent way too much time negotiating terms with Microsoft, anyone can download the RTM bits, and either run it as trial for a limited time or punch in their code, after all. Note that Triton has one, (but only one)

Re: [smartos-discuss] "vmadm delete" not deleting zfs mountpoints?

/me smacks forehead That was it of course. Sorry/thanks. On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Paul Sture <smar...@techchat.ch> wrote: > On 31 Oct 2016, at 20:30, Matthew Parsons wrote: > > > (I hope I got the terminology right.) > > > > vmadm delete should

[smartos-discuss] "vmadm delete" not deleting zfs mountpoints?

(I hope I got the terminology right.) vmadm delete should remove most everything correct? On one host I currently have 2 (native) zones, but I've got multiple /zones/UUID mountpoints that look like old zones/vms from previous testing. (A couple UUIDs I recognize, most were fairly transitory so

Re: [smartos-discuss] attempting to install "mosh" package to GZ

That worked, and now I can resume ssh sessions seamlessly. Thanks again. (Now to figure out how to submit that joyent-specific pkgsrc bug... :) On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > Wow, that's...great! Thank you. (Transitions while

Re: [smartos-discuss] attempting to install "mosh" package to GZ

Wow, that's...great! Thank you. (Transitions while commuting / remote work waste a lot of time.) On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Jonathan Perkin <jper...@joyent.com> wrote: > * On 2016-10-29 at 02:19 BST, Matthew Parsons wrote: > > > I'm trying to install mosh (m

[smartos-discuss] attempting to install "mosh" package to GZ

I'm trying to install mosh (mosh.org) in the GZ. I installed pkgsrc according to the SO-GZ instructions at https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/, worked well enough, but no mosh package. I realize it's a stripped down subset pulling from "tools", so tried pointing pkg_add at the package

[smartos-discuss] Preferred admin pattern: GZ or "admin" zone?

What's the accepted/preferred method for one-off admin customizations - do we manually install pkgsrc in the global zone (seems ugly and a bit less secure), or create a "let me do stuff" base image and delegate the /zones pool to it? (For starters I just want to install tmux and a few utilities

Re: [smartos-discuss] High level (philosophical) overview

Bennett <brian.benn...@joyent.com> wrote: > I'll try to answer these inline. > > -- > Brian Bennett > Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations > Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com > > On Oct 10, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Matthew Parsons <matt...@aspergerexperts.com> > wrote:

Re: [smartos-discuss] inject username and password in LX zone failed

Correct, that's an LX branded zone. ( https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones) It does appear that https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/vmadm%281m%29 is out of sync with https://smartos.org/man/1m/vmadm On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <

[smartos-discuss] High level (philosophical) overview

Everyone has been helpful as I've been investigating SmartOS*, thank you. Now it's time for me (and a couple others at the company) to decide if it's a good fit for our needs, and I hope you can help fill in some info so I can clarify my thinking: -- At the high-level it was designed for

Re: [smartos-discuss] Windows KVM with many cores showing high load average

- for more info) On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Ian Collins <ian.iansh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/ 6/16 10:03 AM, Matthew Parsons wrote: > >> Have you installed the VirtIO drivers in windows? (And what version?) For >> testing I'd try disabling/removing the guest NICs and just

Re: [smartos-discuss] Windows KVM with many cores showing high load average

Have you installed the VirtIO drivers in windows? (And what version?) For testing I'd try disabling/removing the guest NICs and just see if interrupts die down. Also (again for testing) perhaps reduce cores to the amount on a physical CPU socket and assign/restrict to avoid crossing NUMA

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

ch time. Looks like I'll stick w/ Bonnie++ and IOZone via PkgSrc. (Which means I'll have to start over w/ CentOS) On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ian Collins <ian.iansh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27/09/16 12:57 pm, Matthew Parsons wrote: > >> Is there a suite/script/configs for benc

[smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

Is there a suite/script/configs for benchmarks that have emerged as standardized in the smartos community? I'm most interested in disk I/O, and would like to compare native linux hardware RAID vs MD RAID, and Native zone hardware RAID vs. ZFS (without and with SLOG). Ideally (time permitting)

Re: [smartos-discuss] Power Management on Modern CPUs

To the OP: Since it wasn't mentioned, have you tried w/ another OS - even just Ubuntu booted off USB On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Adam Richmond-Gordon < soc...@themisanthrope.co.uk> wrote: > Hello all, > > I (seem to) remember some time ago that the general advice was to disable > power

Re: [smartos-discuss] Power Management on Modern CPUs

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Robert Mustacchi wrote: > >In general, our recommendation is to disable the deep C-States. So we > leave T- and P- states enabled, but not C3 and C6, etc. > > That help? > Robert This is helpful, thanks. Is it on the wiki somewhere? Is there

Re: [smartos-discuss] Troubleshooting "Invalid JSON payload: Unexpected string" (LX Zone)

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Seth Tunstall wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > I've also found that copy-pasting from the Joyent wiki introduces > 'something' which the json parser doesn't like, maybe nulls or tabs or > unicode whitespace chars or whatever. > I figured, so that's

Re: [smartos-discuss] Troubleshooting "Invalid JSON payload: Unexpected string" (LX Zone)

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Johan Claesson wrote: > >> I'm attempting to create a pretty bog-standard LX zone, copying and >> barely modifying the example from https://wiki.smartos.org/displ >> ay/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones [1] like so: >> >> >>> > The problem is you're

[smartos-discuss] Troubleshooting "Invalid JSON payload: Unexpected string" (LX Zone)

(I’m not sure if it’s traditional to introduce oneself here, I’ll include the standard “I’m new here, feel free to point to me existing posts/documentation” disclaimer.) I’m attempting to create a pretty bog-standard LX zone, copying and barely modifying the example from