Re: [smartos-discuss] fifo and fifo-fog

2014-04-03 Thread Steven McDowall
Hey Robin! I use Fifo quite a bit in a test lab I set up for my company (4 physical machines, 300GB RAM, 5TB Disk) running off and on 12+ VM's. Fifo works very well for remote access/control of the system including new VM's etc. The ONLY caveat is that VM creation is very easy if you have the

Re: [smartos-discuss] fifo and fifo-fog

2014-04-03 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi Steven, I installed Fifo last night, and it seemed to install OK. I was rather sad to see that stopped VMs count towards the memory usage of the cluster. I was hoping to be able to fire up a load of VMs then stop them and fire up another group. ie. have more VMs defined than I have memory, but

Re: [smartos-discuss] imgadm image vs custom install for CentOS KVM guests

2014-04-03 Thread Micky
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Elijah Wright eli...@joyent.com wrote: AFAIK the linux.joyent.com kernel images should all be deprecated and more or less unnecessary at this point. There *was* a point in time where several of the distros did not boot out of the box under KVM, or include

RE: [smartos-discuss] imgadm image vs custom install for CentOS KVM guests

2014-04-03 Thread a b
Wrong. It makes a lot of sense, to use a separate ZFS for /var and as Solaris 11.1 now does /var/share/ (they got it halfway baked), where per default data get stored, which need to survive booting into different BEs (like mail, cores, crash,nfs,statmon,audit - don't ask me, why not db, etc

Re: [smartos-discuss] n00b question

2014-04-03 Thread Joseph Greenawalt
Thanks for info. I am running it in virtualbox.  I put the adapter in promiscuous mode. I made some changes to my json file and made a new zone web01 I can ping web01, from another device. I can ping my global zone from web01.  web01 however can not ping anything else in my network or anything

[smartos-discuss] zpool import hangs

2014-04-03 Thread Youzhong Yang
We have 3 test servers running SmartOS, host B and C have zpools zp01 and zp02 respectively, host A can see disks of zp01 and zp02 (disks of zp01 are connected to HBA ports of A and B; disks of zp02 are connected to HBA ports of A and C). And I have a loop to test zpool import/export: for i in