When I still had most of my zones on OmniOS and heard the LX news I was
thinking about how that would work on non-smartos stuff given the lack
of vmadm.
In my head I seemed to end up on traditional tools + a script that would
use debbootstrap to setup debian/ubuntu zones on the spot, just point it
to the dataset.
In theory that 'should' work. In practice? I have no idea. I have many
ideas but all seem a bit painful. But feel free to pluk my brain about
it on IRC if you want.
Regards
Jorge
On 2016-03-08 03:47, Dan McDonald wrote:
Hello!
700+ cherrypicked commits later, and at least I haven't obviously
regressed lipkg/ipkg zones. :)
This github repo:
https://github.com/danmcd/io-lx-public/
is the beginning of my attempt to port LX zones over to OmniOS. I
KNOW there's a lot more work to be done, but I wanted to make sure
this repo is viewable by the public so:
1. ) People know about it.
2. ) People who are interested in helping can do so.
3. ) People can laugh at all of the mismerges and other flub-ups I'm
sure I haven't caught yet. :)
4. ) I will be context-switching to OmniOS r151018 ramp-up very soon,
and want to checkpoint state.
I've Bcc:ed the SmartOS (home of LX zones) and the illumos (where I
hope this work can be upstreamed at some point) lists. Discussion on
io-lx (Illumos-OmniOS-LX) should take place either on github or on the
OmniOS mailing list.
So far:
- I've sidepulled 700+ commits, ending with illumos-joyent's
8443e038ef8eb3ca6a95818d6e90b2a1eb4e9cb6. There are some more
illumos-joyent commits I'll need to bring over, but my cherrypicking
script and setups are primed & tested, so I *should* be able to make
short work of it.
- I've smoke-tested a global-only OmniOS boot, and a single-lipkg zone
OmniOS boot. After some mismerge-related consternation, I booted the
lipkg zone as well. A rudimentary ppriv(1) comparison between root
shells in global and lipkg zones was part of the smoke test.
- Any files I didn't know where they went I put into the "brand/lx"
package. The inotify feature, for example, is in there, and perhaps
it shouldn't be.
- If you ONU to io-lx, note that to install brand/lx, you will need to
UNINSTALL the "illumos-gate" consolidation package first. I don't
have changes in omnios-build or any of the other repos (like pkg5)
yet. I hope to avoid outside-illumos changes until it's time to
figure out the admin model.
After I'm comfortable with no ipkg/lipkg regressions, I will need to
spend some design time figuring out how LX zones will look on OmniOS.
I will not be porting vmadm(1M) over from SmartOS, so I need to think
about how LX will fit in with traditional zone tools. I may discover
other problems, but until I start the '018 process, and immediately
after '018 ships, I will need to ensure no ipkg/lipkg regressions
first and foremost.
It's not much, but it's a start.
Thanks for your time & patience,
Dan
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