On April 18, 2021 10:05:02 AM UTC, Carl Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and >64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it. Is an OI VM running on >top of OI viable for building and testing? In particular, how good is >VBox for that? it's become very Windows host oriented. I'm also aware >the Solaris USB support is not very good. I'll have Win 7 and Debian >available running native on a Z400 if USB proves an issue for working >with microcontrollers which is my primary use case for both of those. > >FWIW I use VBox on OI to host a bunch of GNU/Linux and NetBSD servers >on >a couple of basic Intel i5 consumer-grade PCs with 32GB of RAM. Runs >fine, I'm not doing anything that uses a GUI, it's all just a virtual >server that I get into using SSH. It depends on what you're trying to >get your guests to do and how much risk you're prepared to accept. For > >my use case (virtualised UNIX servers to run Moodle, BIND, postfix etc) > >it's a very capable solution, cheap and so far (more than 10 years) >bombproof. > >I knocked up some rudimentary start up scripts that use VNC to start >the >VBox GUI, but you can do it all just from the command line if you don't > >want the convenience of the VBox GUI. For me, ht VBox GUI is a >compelling thing! I don't have the time to waste learning a bunch of >PITA command line stuff when I can use the VBox GUI to make and manage >VMs. "easy" > >Carl > > >_______________________________________________ >openindiana-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
On that front, I "must" mention my vboxsvc project: * https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxsvc * nee https://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc Beside allowing to wrap each vbox into an SMF instance (dependencies, restarts by state monitoring and all), among other features it also has a way to get a GUI console (e.g. in a VNC session to host) to a headless VM, by save-state and resume. Also can praise phpVirtualbox as a decent and useful web-gui to a VBox host. Jim Klimov -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
