Re: [smartos-discuss] zvol image on image server

While creating an image is more efficient and should be the way to do it (specially if you plan to deploy it multiple times) you can also do this: Create a folder inside /zones to store the files. 1. Shutdown the VM and snapshot all hard drives zfs snap zones/uuid-disk0 zfs snap

Re: [smartos-discuss] zvol image on image server

The easiest way to create an image from an existing kvm instance is with: src_vm_uuid=FIXME name=my-first-image version=1 imgadm create -i $src_vm_uuid -s linux-prepare-image version=$version name=$name You can find linux-prepare-image at

[smartos-discuss] zvol image on image server

If I need to store our own kvm image on our server, what format of the image file should be? zfs send stream and compressed by gzip? where to put the file? together with the manifest file? The following image on joyent server does not say anything about the file location. I have no idea what it

Re: [smartos-discuss] Error in Smartos Build: Connection timed out

These are a bit out of date, but mostly still apply. https://docu.blackdot.be/snipets/solaris/smartos-nat (https://docu.blackdot.be/snipets/solaris/smartos-nat) https://docu.blackdot.be/snipets/solaris/smartos-ipv6 (https://docu.blackdot.be/snipets/solaris/smartos-ipv6) Regards Jorge June 27,

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS newbie.

On Wed, June 27, 2018 10:10 am, Jean Parpaillon wrote: > I want to use SmartOS on OVH dedicated servers. It is not documented > and I don't know if they use a particular dataset setup script. Consider the use of a Joyent SmartOS container: https://www.joyent.com/pricing/cloud/compute I don't

[smartos-discuss] Error in Smartos Build: Connection timed out

Hi I'm trying to build a smartos image following the Building instructions It starts fine but after a while it stops with an error of connection timeout: /home/paolo/smartos-live/proto/usr/bin/gcc -o build/ia32/mdb_v8_version.o

[smartos-discuss] SmartOS newbie...

Hi, I'm new to SmartOS, but doing sysadmin on Debian since 1999 I want to use SmartOS on OVH dedicated servers. It is not documented and I don't know if they use a particular dataset setup script. How can I now if dataset setup script is launched ? What are the kernel boot parameters ?