I am currently running a provisioned Joyent SmartMachine base64 version 1.8.2 with some standard software (apache, php) installed. Is ist possible to make an upgrade to a newer version (for example to SmartMachine base64 1.9.1) without provisioning a new SmartMachine and then transferring all installed packages and data to that SmartMachine manually? I would be … Read more
I am trying to get back into the unix game for some storage projects we have got going. We would love to use joyents smartos (based on illumos) for that. Working with it is a real joy (setting up vms etc) but i can’t get iscsi to work. I would love to simply share a … Read more
As stated in subject. I have this script that works fine from command line: #!/sbin/sh GITCOMMAND=”git daemon –base-path=/my/git/repo –export-all –enable=receive-pack –reuseaddr” startcmd () { `$GITCOMMAND` } stopcmd () { pkill -f “git *” } case “$1” in ‘start’) startcmd ;; ‘stop’) stopcmd ;; ‘restart’) stopcmd sleep 1 startcmd ;; *) echo “Usage: $0 { start … Read more
I have a Linux server running libvirt + KVM which I am thinking of migrating to SmartOS. The server has a ZFS pool created with ZFS on Linux, where the KVM guests are stored (as ZVOLs). My question is, can this pool be usable by SmartOS? Answer Yes. ZFS zpools are pretty portable… In your … Read more
I’m using SmartOS on my servers and I’m really enthusiastic about it, especially since they launched their “LX-branded zones”. These enable us to run Linux applications in a SmartOS “zone” at bare metal performance without a hypervisor. When I create an LX-branded zone, I have to write a manifest file, which includes a kernel_version property. … Read more
So I have a Samsung 250GB 850 Evo SSD and a 500GB 860 EVO SSD. I’m looking at using Solaris for this server (so looking at whether doing this with ZFS is possible). Is it possible to mirror the 250GB SSD with a 250GB partition on the 500GB SSD, while leaving the other half of … Read more
Is it possible? (title of this question) Googling Virtualization with one public IP address yields nothing useful What I have: SmartOS on a dedicated server. Dedicated server has one public IP address. What I want to do: Host multiple guest OS from that server Problem: Access to the guest through the (server that virtualizes the … Read more
I’m running a server process under SMF (Server Management Facility) on Joyent’s Base64 1.8.1 SmartOS image. For those not aqauinted with SmartOS, it is a cloud-based distribution of IllumOS with KVM. But essentially it is like Solaris and inherits from OpenSolaris. So even if you’ve not used SmartOS, I’m hoping to tap into some Solaris … Read more
