Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Stephan Budach
Hi Dan, would that allow me to run OmniOS on a Xen-based Oracle VM? Frankly, I didn't manage to get that one up due to restrained resources on my end - and it since hasn't been pressing enough… ;) Cheers, Stephan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature _

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Doug Hughes
I could try it on libvirt/qemu. On Feb 28, 2017 3:14 AM, "Stephan Budach" wrote: > Hi Dan, > > would that allow me to run OmniOS on a Xen-based Oracle VM? Frankly, I > didn't manage to get that one up due to restrained resources on my end - > and it since hasn't been pressing enough… ;) > > Chee

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 3:00 AM, Stephan Budach wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > would that allow me to run OmniOS on a Xen-based Oracle VM? Frankly, I didn't > manage to get that one up due to restrained resources on my end - and it > since hasn't been pressing enough… ;) It MIGHT, and you're the sort

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:10:30 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > > NOTE 2: I'm ESPECIALLY interested in people on qemu or other virtualization > technologies, as this installer should not have the hangups about blkdev > devices that the old installer did. If diskinfo(1M) in the shell sees it, > you

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 27, 2017, at 5:10 PM, Dan McDonald wrote: > > If there are brave people who wish to try various stages of the new ISO > installer for OmniOS (it will also be the USB one... BSD Loader makes USB > construction simple once you have an ISO created), please let me know. Please download t

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:22:37 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > diskinfo(1M) or format(1M) No found on the iso?? -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael rasmussen cc http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD3C9A00E mir datanom net http://pgp.mit.edu:11371

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:22:37 -0500 > Dan McDonald wrote: > >> diskinfo(1M) or format(1M) > No found on the iso?? Shoot. I messed something up in this ISO's construction. Please wait, folks, Dan __

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 1:02 PM, Dan McDonald wrote: > > I messed something up in this ISO's construction. Please wait, folks, Okay... 1.) I've reconstructed the ISO, and diskinfo is available in the shell. 2.) format is available, but not functional because of the horrid hacks I made to get

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:23:24 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2017, at 1:02 PM, Dan McDonald wrote: > > > > I messed something up in this ISO's construction. Please wait, folks, > > Okay... > > 1.) I've reconstructed the ISO, and diskinfo is available in the shell. > How should di

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
I meant on the installer, not on LOADER. Press return on loader (that's the GRUB repoacment) to boot illumos and then the installer. You should see the SunOS banner THEN look for the OmniOS installation menu. Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all) > On Feb 28, 2017, at 1:58 PM

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:43:50 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > I meant on the installer, not on LOADER. Press return on loader (that's the > GRUB repoacment) to boot illumos and then the installer. You should see the > SunOS banner THEN look for the OmniOS installation menu. > Installer never star

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
I saw that error when I disconnected my virtual cd drive mid installer boot. Please check the integrity of your downloaded ISO. Thanks, Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all) > On Feb 28, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:43:50 -0500 > Dan

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:46:54 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > I saw that error when I disconnected my virtual cd drive mid installer boot. > Please check the integrity of your downloaded ISO. > Solved it. Initially using 512MB memory which was not enough to contain the rootfs. Increasing memory to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:00:18 +0100 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:46:54 -0500 > Dan McDonald wrote: > > > I saw that error when I disconnected my virtual cd drive mid installer > > boot. Please check the integrity of your downloaded ISO. > > > Solved it. > Initially usi

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > Is an initial requirement of 1GB memory not a bit to high? I shoved EVERYTHING into the ramdisk image, so it's more than 512. I think 768 is doable, TBH. I haven't yet tried optimizing for lower-memory deployments (I can do this ev

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:15:43 +0100 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > A new issue: > Assigned to virtio disks to the VM but diskinfo only finds one? > First disk: > /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 > /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0 > both mapped to pci device > No /dev/{r,}dsk/c4t0d0 > > but diskinfo clams a disk in c4t0d0 > > Tes

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:46:37 +0100 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:15:43 +0100 > Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > Testing visibility of disks to the installer: > No disks/interface idesata virtioscsi > 1 1 1 1 1 > n+1

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:46:37 +0100 > Michael Rasmussen wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:15:43 +0100 >> Michael Rasmussen wrote: >> >> Testing visibility of disks to the installer: >> No disks/interface idesata virtiosc

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Peter Tribble
Dan, On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Dan McDonald wrote: > I'm in the middle of rewhacking our PXE installer, Kayak, to ALSO provide > support for an ISO-based mildly-interactive installer. Here's the new > install menu: > > > Welcome to the OmniOS installation menu > > > 1 Find disk

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:16:56 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > > Are you seeing this? > > https://github.com/omniti-labs/illumos-omnios/pull/10 > Yes, exactly. Which also have that odd side effect that a single disk rpool is created on the second disk (layered after the ide device) is chosen f

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > > Dan, > Ok, some comments (I'm wearing 2 hats here, one as an omnios > customer, the other as someone who's actually written an installer): > > Overall, I think I prefer it to Caiman. But then I was never a > fan of Caiman, it was all so

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:36:09 +0100 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:16:56 -0500 > Dan McDonald wrote: > > > > > Are you seeing this? > > > > https://github.com/omniti-labs/illumos-omnios/pull/10 > > > Yes, exactly. Which also have that odd side effect that a single dis

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:12:20 +0100 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > PS. Above only concerns the installer kernel. The kernel installed has > no such issues so you can use the prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c. | fmthard > -s - /dev/rdsk/c... and zpool attach -f rpool c. c. after initial > boot. >

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:33 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: > > I get an endless boot loop. > > libvirt/kvm on Centos7 > > It took me a while, but I managed to get a screenshot, which was very > difficult and took about 15 tries. > You can use the BSD Loader menu to enable kmdb. Then you will die an

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

2017-02-28 Thread Doug Hughes
On 2/28/2017 10:27 PM, Dan McDonald wrote: On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:33 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: I get an endless boot loop. libvirt/kvm on Centos7 It took me a while, but I managed to get a screenshot, which was very difficult and took about 15 tries. You can use the BSD Loader menu to enable