Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hot plugging sata drives?

2011-06-16 Thread Blake Irvin
I wish I had known about this 3 years ago :) On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:45 PM, Cyril Plisko wrote: If you want the cfgadm configure magic to be automatic add this to your /etc/system: set sata:sata_auto_online=1 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hot plugging sata drives?

2011-06-16 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Ah thanks! -Original Message- From: Cyril Plisko [mailto:cyril.pli...@mountall.com] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:46 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hot plugging sata drives? On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Dan Swartzendruber

[OpenIndiana-discuss] can't run updates, says live image

2011-06-16 Thread Michelle O'Brien
Hi, I recently installed VirtualBox 4.0.8 onto my laptop running Ubuntu 11.04 so I could run some legacy Windows stuff in Windows XP 7. I used to administer a couple of Sparc+Solaris servers many years ago, so decided tolook at what OpenSolaris was like on a VM, and as that seemed to work,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't run updates, says live image

2011-06-16 Thread Magnus
On 6/16/11 8:25 AM, Michelle O'Brien wrote: OpenIndiana installs, works with the OpenSolaris guest additions, but I cannot run any updates from the package manager - says it cannot update live image. Sounds like you're still booting from the Live DVD ISO, not from the installed instance on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] LibreOffice in OpenIndiana

2011-06-16 Thread Magnus
On 6/16/11 8:25 AM, Michelle O'Brien wrote: Also, is there some way of selecting to install LibreOffice, rather than OpenOffice? Sorry, Mish; I should have included this in my original response to you: https://www.illumos.org/issues/684 There's a feature request for this right now but it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA Optimus compatibility?

2011-06-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Since these laptop have not an hardware switch/bios option and Nvidia plan is to not support this technology, on linux the nvidia card is left completely untouched and you can use it only with some 'unstable' workarounds to apply on the kernel and on userspace software.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow zfs list on oi_148 compared to snv_111b

2011-06-16 Thread Shawn Moore
I have several(5) ZFS machines that have been built to serve out over NFS. Most are OpenSolaris snv_111b, but we have two that are oi_148. Between these we have ~ 200 volumes and 221000 snapshots (as of this writing). On all of the oi_148's it takes a really really long time to list the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 03:54 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox 3.x, then I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth Windows Server guests. With a lot of sadness I had to rely on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-16 Thread Gary Driggs
The first revs of 4 crashed a lot with APCI or sleep mode on a Windows 7 guest but that seems to have cleared up. The Windows Thin PC release candidate had some memory leak problem, however, but I don't know if it'll be fixed in the RTM version or not. -Gary

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos panel discussion videos

2011-06-16 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
From the discussion on the 15th for those interested, onDeirdré Straughan's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/deirdres#p/u/5/NArlja-RXVA -- Dave Koelmeyer http://davekoelmeyer.wordpress.com/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 11, Issue 30

2011-06-16 Thread Michelle O'Brien
Thanks Magnus, I note your second response - I detached the ISO, and moved it to a removable disk just to be sure. But, as long as I know there is nothing I can do about this, then I won't worry about it, Mish. Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:27:13 -0400 From: Magnusmag...@yonderway.com To: