On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 9:43 AM Judah Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 7:51 AM Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanx for all your help, guys. I have read all your answers, but need to >> check a few things up before finally migrating to OI. >> Question 1) I have messed up my email settings to this group. But as I >> understood it: when someone replies to my question, I will get an email and >> I just "reply to all", and my answer will show up in the OI mail list for >> everyone to see? Is this correctly understood? (I am not used to mail >> lists). >> > Yes, hitting Reply All works for me in Gmail. > > Question 2) Just to double check: Does OI support UEFI installations? In >> the manual it says OI only supports BIOS installations. > > You should believe the manual. And my own experience when I last tried it > this year. The *installer* supports (requires?) UEFI, but the actual OS > requires legacy boot. > > Can someone confirm? This might be useful to record, for futures questions >> from users. >> Question 3) It is still unclear to me if I could install OI as BIOS by >> removing all disks except one. After the OI installation, I remove all >> disks except one and install Win10 as UEFI. Then I insert all disks and >> choose via boot menu (F11) to boot Win10 UEFI, or OI BIOS. Has anyone >> tested this? If not, I totally understand! :) >> > Based on our discussion so far, at this point you're best off trying that > yourself if you want to find out if it works. > > Question 4) It seems that it is problematic to dual boot OI BIOS, and >> Win10 UEFI, even on different disks on the same PC. It should be avoided if >> possible. >> > Correct. > > Therefore I came up with an alternative solution instead. The main thing >> is, I want to use OI as a backend (because Solaris is more stable than any >> other OS I tried), and then use Win10 for gaming. Instead of dual bootingh >> as in Q3), maybe this setup is possible instead: >> I install OI on bare metal. Then I use KVM and Qemu to install Win10 as a >> Virtual Machine, and I do passthrough of my Geforce GTX 1070 Ti. I have a >> Xeon E3-1245v3 cpu which has integrated graphics, namely HD P4600. This >> way, OI gets the IGP running VESA driver - which is totally fine as I only >> work in OI. Win10 VM will get the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti when I want to game. >> This setup might be less problematic than Q3? >> > I don't know. As far as home virtualization is concerned, r/homelab is the > best place to ask that question IMO. > Forgot to add: you can also use Proxmox to run both Windows 10 and OI in separate VMs with GPU passthrough for Windows 10. I do believe that's possible, but I don't know exactly how to do it because I have no firsthand Proxmox experience. You can ask at r/homelab or r/Proxmox on Reddit. > > Is this setup possible? Are there limitations specific to OI that I should >> know, for instance, maybe OI KVM does not allow passthrough of GPUs? >> > See above. > > Question 5) @Peter Tribble, so you are saying that this will also fail?- >> Create a zpool in Solaris 11.3 (zpool version 28, ZFS version 5)- Import >> the zpool into OI 2020.10- Copy data to the zpool using zfs send recv- >> Import zpool into Solaris 11.3. Will this last step also fail? >> > You can try this in the OI live USB and see how it goes. > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
