Thanks for responding to my inquiry about OpenIndiana. Basically, I really like the small footprint of SmartOS and its ability to be a good hypervisor (Linux and Windows) but for a desktop project, I wanted to be able to have a minimal OS that basically just run the containers/zones and then have one of the containers have a X-Server such that the base OS does not have applications installed in it. Then the GUI zone could be passed through to the video driver thus all of the X-Server stuff is also in a container.
This was an idea that I have been playing around with for some time as was going to look into possibly using SmartOS, but it is really not set up for this and which is where I started digging into Illumos and subsequently OpenIndiana to see if something like this might make a good starting point for this work. Thanks again, Lonnie On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Alexander Pyhalov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/23/17 06:21 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > >> Greetings All, >> >> 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, it can. illumos-kvm is not a part of illumos-gate, but is a separate > codebase, developed mainly by Joyent. We compile and deliver it, but KVM > benefits from several system features (the one which comes to my mind is > VND), which are available in SmartOS, but not in other distributions > (AFAIK). OI can run KVM guests on modern Intel hardware, but SmartOS can be > more efficient, for example, in network virtualization. > -- > Best regards, > Alexander Pyhalov, > system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
