On 9/10/16 4:41 PM, Nick Hall wrote:
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Ian Collins <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 10/ 9/16 04:08 PM, Nick Hall wrote:
I read a recent discussion on the mailing list about a NUC where
the keyboard wasn't working, but that was a machine that had all
USB 3.0 ports.
The eventual score on that one was that Robert (?) actually is working
on the xhci stuff (this being the actual problem) but it wasn't ready
for prime time yet.
As a result I have a bodge in place:
* Get an 8GB+ thumb drive.
* Burn the debian installer on and boot off it.
* Install by creating a second partition on the thumb drive itself and
install onto there.
* Fetch
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso
* Install SmartOS onto KVM a la
https://wiki.debian.org/KVM#Creating_a_new_guest .... but
* You can install SmartOS directly onto the "primary storage" drive on
the machine.
The magic line for me was:
virt-install --connect qemu:///system --virt-type kvm --name SmartOS
--ram 31744 --vcpus 8 --cdrom /var/lib/libvirt/images/smartos-latest.iso
--livecd --disk /dev/nvme0n1 --network bridge=br0
I was hoping that I would then be able to switch the debian usb key with
a SmartOS one and have it magically work. This appears to not be the
case, but I do have it running and can wait for the xhci stuff to come
together in it's own time. I didn't *mean* to get an nvme drive, I just
did and it seems fine so far (although I guess it's still going through
debian).
I know this defeats the point of having a bare metal hypervisor but it's
better than nothing.
-Dave
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