Lonnie, One distro that may work for you is OmniOS CE: https://www.omniosce.org/
Like SmartOS, it can run LX (Linux) zones and uses pkgsrc which provides basic x-windows support from that. (I've run apps like xterm etc. from a remote desktop). Unlike OpenIndiana, native desktop functionality is limited. Gary On 10/23/2017 12:35 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
