YOU ARE MY HERO I wish you the best of luck and will do (what little) I can to help. I've wanted this for a while.
-brian > On Mar 7, 2016, at 21:47, Dan McDonald <dan...@omniti.com> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
