Am 23.10.17 um 17:21 schrieb Lonnie Cumberland:
Greetings All,
Welcome to OpenIndiana!
I have recently been playing around a little with SmartOS for running
containers and hypervizing VM's for which it seems to work pretty well, and
wanted to also investigate the desktop side of things as well so I hope
that someone on the list will answer a few rudimentary questions to get me
going with my OI explorations.
I know that SmartOS can be a hypervisor to run the Linux, and Windows OS's
as VM's in zones, but I was wondering if OpenIndiana was able to hypervize
these OS's as well?
Yes, Joyent ported Linux KVM to SmartOS and integrated it into illumos.
OpenIndiana uses
almost plain illumos for its base. Alas there is no nice frontend to it
(like vmadm et al.) on OpenIndiana.
You can find some information about virtualisation on OpenIndiana on the
wiki:
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.+Virtualization
Basically, I am trying to find out if, beyond the desktop targeting of OI,
and the server targeting of SmartOS, are there any other major differences
in these distributions?
While OpenIndiana is a straight successor of OpenSolaris, SmartOS is
stripped down to what
Joyent thinks they need for their Cloud systems. It's more like VMWare's
ESXi plus ZFS.
Also, in some basic reading and browsing, it seems that Illumos has the
ability to do some GPU passthrough, if I remember what I ready albeit not
too widespread, and I wanted to know if OpenIndiana had the same, or
similar capabilities?
OpenIndiana has everything that illumos has. I am not aware of
GPU-passthrough for illumos.
As soon as Joyent (or their customers) need it, I am sure the folks will
create a solution.
Regards
Andreas
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