Hello!
700+ cherrypicked commits later, and at least I haven't obviously regressed
lipkg/ipkg zones. :)
This github repo:
https://github.com/danmcd/io-lx-public/
is the beginning of my attempt to port LX zones over to OmniOS. I KNOW there's
a lot more work to be done, but I wanted to make sure this repo is viewable by
the public so:
1.) People know about it.
2.) People who are interested in helping can do so.
3.) People can laugh at all of the mismerges and other flub-ups I'm sure I
haven't caught yet. :)
4.) I will be context-switching to OmniOS r151018 ramp-up very soon, and want
to checkpoint state.
I've Bcc:ed the SmartOS (home of LX zones) and the illumos (where I hope this
work can be upstreamed at some point) lists. Discussion on io-lx
(Illumos-OmniOS-LX) should take place either on github or on the OmniOS mailing
list.
So far:
- I've sidepulled 700+ commits, ending with illumos-joyent's
8443e038ef8eb3ca6a95818d6e90b2a1eb4e9cb6. There are some more illumos-joyent
commits I'll need to bring over, but my cherrypicking script and setups are
primed & tested, so I *should* be able to make short work of it.
- I've smoke-tested a global-only OmniOS boot, and a single-lipkg zone OmniOS
boot. After some mismerge-related consternation, I booted the lipkg zone as
well. A rudimentary ppriv(1) comparison between root shells in global and
lipkg zones was part of the smoke test.
- Any files I didn't know where they went I put into the "brand/lx" package.
The inotify feature, for example, is in there, and perhaps it shouldn't be.
- If you ONU to io-lx, note that to install brand/lx, you will need to
UNINSTALL the "illumos-gate" consolidation package first. I don't have changes
in omnios-build or any of the other repos (like pkg5) yet. I hope to avoid
outside-illumos changes until it's time to figure out the admin model.
After I'm comfortable with no ipkg/lipkg regressions, I will need to spend some
design time figuring out how LX zones will look on OmniOS. I will not be
porting vmadm(1M) over from SmartOS, so I need to think about how LX will fit
in with traditional zone tools. I may discover other problems, but until I
start the '018 process, and immediately after '018 ships, I will need to ensure
no ipkg/lipkg regressions first and foremost.
It's not much, but it's a start.
Thanks for your time & patience,
Dan
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