Karthik, It could very well be. It's not a live image like you've mentioned. Probably the best explanation is here: https://www.perkin.org. uk/posts/smartos-and-the-global-zone.html
I've been using my below average laptop (w.r.t. performance) for my web app project where SmartOS runs as a VM inside VirtualBox. Thought of running it in it's own real machine, that's why rejuvenated this thread. As for AMD, budget is the only reason! On 26-Jul-2017 17:13, "karthik" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ganapathy, > > Can SmartOS be used at all as a workstation for web app development,say > for java/php development with Eclipse? AFAIK we can use it as a live image > booted off CD/USB with everything in memory, except for /opt . This is akin > to a liveCD of linux like Knoppix. I do some of my personal web development > on illumos but I use XStreamOS which has a desktop version. So for > XStreamOS, apart from the native IPS package set, I have options of > Joyent's pkgsrc,OpenCSW or gentoo prefix as package sets. > > Thanks > Karthik > > From: "Heinz N. Gies" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:12:21 > To: SmartOs Discuss <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support > > My test cluster runs 4 nodes with dual AMD Opteron 6127 which work fine > with SmartOS zones but of cause no KVM. They’ve been with me for over a > year and I’ve never had any SmartOs related problems. > > On 25. Jul 2017, at 06:15, Ganapathy S A <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Roberto, > > I'm planning to buy a new PC for web app development in SmartOS platform > (only OS zones). Were you able to run SmartOS without any issues? Or any > other person? I still don't see AMD Ryzen (or any other AMD except one ☺️) > here https://wiki.smartos.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=755673 > <https://wiki.smartos.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=755673==> > > Any advice would be helpful. > > Thanx, > Ganapathy > > On 24-Mar-2017 23:59, "Roberto Rivera" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the video card insight Garrett. I swapped in an older Nvidia >> Geforce GTX 745 card to see the impact. Regardless, the same errors show up >> for both SmartOS and OmniOS. >> >> Would the bios setting have an impact? I have assumed that NX, SVM >> (virtual machine), and IOMMU settings should be enabled and maybe that's >> incorrect. Maybe other bios settings are impactful as well? >> >> Thanks again, >> Rob >> >> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> The RX470 card probably won’t work except in basic VGA mode; this >>> generation of AMD GPU requires a very new driver set from AMD (their >>> amdgpu-pro drivers) which I don’t believe have been ported to illumos yet?) >>> >>> (For various reasons, I’m acutely aware of current AMD GPU stuff, owing >>> to $dayjob.) >>> >>> - Garrett >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Dan McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> > On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:55 PM, Roberto Rivera < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Tried OmniOS as suggested... after hitting the enter at the boot menu >>>> got the following: >>>> > >>>> > loading /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive >>>> > No rootfs module provided, aborting >>>> > booting /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix >>>> > No rootfs module provided, aborting >>>> > >>>> > Then was dropped to an "OK" prompt. >>>> >>>> Weird. That normally would indicate a malformed ISO or USB stick, but >>>> I'm pretty sure these work on other HW and VMs. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the data. You can also try this one, just in case: >>>> >>>> http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/r151021-kayak.iso >>>> <http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/r151021-kayak.iso%20AGIBMVxnU2QHNg==> >>>> >>>> I spun it more recently than the 0314 ones. It'll likely fail the same >>>> way for you, but it's worth a check. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Dan >>>> >>> > > > > > http://www.listbox.com <http://www.listbox.com/ATZRYA==> > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26100054-3651fd5f> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
