On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Lonnie <lon...@biofuelstechnologyinc.com> wrote:
> Greetings All, > > I have just recently come across OSv and although I do realize that it is > mainly designed as a minimalist container OS > Hi, "container" is probably the wrong word to use here, because it has other established meanings in this field. It's an OS for VMs, not containers :-) > , I was wondering about the possibility of having a bootable ISO just to > play with in some VM's? > I guess it should indeed be possible to convert an OSv image (one compiled with fs=ramfs, i.e., no read-write ZFS partition) to the ISO format, I just never tried. You are welcome to try :-) > > I also do know about the download section that has OSv for virtualbox, > etc.. > Yes, we can build images in various formats, including the native formats accepted by virtualbox, kvm, xen, vmware. The actual content of the image is the same (OSv can run on any of these hypervisors) just the format is different. > but I wondered if anyone has built an ISO that can boot in commodity PC's. > If you want to literally boot OSv on an actual PC, not a VM, you probably can't - OSv will not have drivers to read your disk, use the network card, etc. It only has drivers for those which are found in the hypervisors I mentioned. > > Also, I am wondering about the footprint size as I have ideas about > possibly using it to make VirtualBox into a bootable self contained > Hypervisor, > If you want to run VirtualBox inside OSv, that would be an interesting idea, but we never tried it and it's likely not to work out of the box. And since you can't run OSv on the bare metal anyway (without adding more drivers to OSv), I guess you won't want to do this anyway. Or maybe I didn't understand what you're trying to do.... > which might be akin to making a the Type-2 hypervisor into a Type-1 > hypervisor just to play around with a bit. Or possible a bootable Docker > engine that can load up and run containers. There are a number of > possibilities on how one might be able to possibly use OSv as a host in > addition to a guest OS. > > Any information would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lonnie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OSv Development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to osv-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSv Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osv-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
