Hi, I am trying to figure out if I can set up a desktop based SmartOS VM for testing purposes and am not sure if I have correctly understood all the basics. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction if I am not.
Here is my understanding of how one would use SmartOS in a VM environment: 1. Download the USB image and convert to a VMDK image and set this as the boot disk for the VirtualBox VM. 2. Create another VMDK image which will be used as the SmartOS Zpool where actual user data will be stored. 3. Booting the SmartOS boots into the Global Zone - one should not install anything in this zone! 4. Create a Zone for your application (e.g. nagios, mysql, etc..) 5. Log in to this Zone and install your applications 6. The VirtualBox VM is not the same as a Joyent Smart OS cloud environment (which I presume is actually a Zone) I think my mistake has been assuming I can install applications immediately in the VM thinking the VM would be the same as a SmartOS cloud environment. However I kept getting errors during installation of applications because configuration could not be changed. I would appreciate some feedback as to whether this understanding is in fact correct, and if not then what is. Also how do I create a Zone that has a nic that can see the outside world ? Seems that by default this is not the case. Thanks ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
