Heh, don't let Bryan (Cantrill) see this. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFIEH3vXPw
(Yes, there are still times it makes sense to do so, just know what tradeoffs you are making. And that you're killing kittens and making god angry. :) On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 6:37 AM, karthik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris > > Thanks for the info. Yes I agree with you. Its good to use SmartOS on a VM. > > Regards > Kartic K > > > From: "Chris Ferebee" <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:10:39 > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support > > 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 > <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==> > >> > >> 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==> > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > http://www.listbox.com <http://www.listbox.com==> > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/29048856-acd40977> | > 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
