On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, I found CloudSigma, Switzerland, seems a good option. > They opened a trial account for me, but I had problem booting the CD. > First time it worked, but I had no virtio support, so I had to stop and > restart with HD in ide mode. > No way to run it anymore, in any way, not even starting from scratch in > virtio mode. > > Is there any particular option I must let them know to allow kvm run > illumos guests? > I've only successfully installed in IDE mode, the virtio mode seems to upset the live boot. (I think it's having trouble in the device discovery phase when it's trying to find the device where solaris.zlib lives, I need to find time to go back and look at this in more detail.) But my experience with Bytemark is that apart from that it just worked. > Gabriele > > ------------------------------ > > > *Da:* Peter Tribble <[email protected]> > *A:* discuss <[email protected]> > *Data:* 22 settembre 2015 11.19.46 CEST > *Oggetto:* Re: [discuss] illumos hosting offerings > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> looks like impossible to find a hosting provider to run an illumos distro >> of my own on their virtualization infrastructure. >> Everybody wants you to run their windows or linux machines. >> I need some virtualized XStreamOS machines running around, but I can't >> find one allowing me to use my own iso install. >> >> Why? >> Do you have any durable solution to this (a part from housing your own >> hardware, something we already do...)? >> > > There are a few. I've run both OmniOS and Tribblix on Bytemark > > https://www.bytemark.co.uk/ > > Specifically the page > > https://www.bytemark.co.uk/hosting/bigv/ > > and their support is really good too. (They love people who run "unusual" > things. > When running Tribblix I found a bug in their DHCP implementation and they > just > got straight back to me and fixed it, and were delighted I had found it.) > > There are a number of other companies set up the same way, exposing raw > qemu/KVM, which I've heard good things about but haven't tried personally. > Eg. > > Vultr > > https://www.vultr.com/features/ > > If you could create an XStreamOS dataset for SmartOS, then you could > use presumably Joyent or another SDC provider such as vrocket.io > > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > *illumos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175722-010faa19> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
