Hi Karthik, Some years ago, I ran SmartOS in parallel with a desktop operating system. I had a large server with lots of unused RAM and CPU and wanted to harness that for my desktop.
The best solution I found was to run VMware ESXi as a hypervisor, as ESXi supports PCI passthrough. Then I installed SmartOS as one ESXi guest, and my desktop OS as the other. I passed my NICs and LSI HBAs through to SmartOS, and installed a desktop GPU and an additional NIC and passed them through to my desktop OS. It was a bit convoluted to set up, but worked perfectly, and I had extremely good performance on both SmartOS and the desktop OS. If you don’t need this kind of direct hardware access in SmartOS, it’s probably easier to run your preferred desktop OS bare-metal and run SmartOS inside VMware Workstation or similar. Best, Chris > Am 26.07.2017 um 13:42 schrieb karthik <[email protected]>: > > 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 >> >> 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 >> >> 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 > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
