Lonnie, The suspension was for OmniOS support and development from OmniTI. The project is active as a community supported product called OmniOS CE. I've never tried to run X-windows in a zone but you can ask on the omnios mailing list:
[email protected] Gary On 10/23/2017 01:20 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Thanks for the information on OmniOS, Gary. > > Just looked at it and it seems that operations were suspended on April 21, > 2017. > > In the past, I can already use something like Hyper-V, Proxmox, and others > to run a GUI application in a container and then remote into it with RDP > and VNC, for example from another machine. My twist on the project is that > I would like to use one of the IllumOS dialects such that I could have one > of the zones/containers have an X-Server that would passthrough to the > actual video hardware so that I could use a VNC viewer, for example, on the > same system as the other containers that are running so that I could remote > into them as needed all from a single system. I did not want to have one > system for the running containers/zones and another for the remote viewer, > if at all possible. > > Just some thoughts, though. > Cheers, > Lonnie > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Gary Gendel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
