BrandZ has been discontinued. The recommended way to virtualize Linux is by
using VirtualBox.
BrandZ allows only Linux v2.4 and 32bit.
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Ok, solved it. First do
# svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam
# svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:default
Then use ipadm
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I tried the last instructions to create static IP. This is a fresh install of
S11E, but did not succeed. Do you know why?
root@Frasse:~# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.3/24 e1000g0/v4
ipadm: Could not create address: Persistent operation on temporary object
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Why dont you boot from the LiveCD and try?
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When you are connected to the console using zlogin -C, you are expected to
login with a user. Something like this, maybe
$ zlogin -C myNewZone
myNewZone: root
password:
logged in to myNewZone as root
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I have tried earlier versions (2-3 years old) and I got 2-3MB/sec read speed.
Totally unsuable. I dont know of any faster solutions, except connect the disk
drive to a Windows PC and transfer via network.
What read speeds do you get? Is it still 2-3MB/sec?
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Before you do anything at all, you should make a ZFS snapshot (called BE - Boot
Environment). With BE you can instantly roll back if something is messed up.
Just choose which snapshot you want to boot into, in GRUB.
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Regarding VLC, there is a "SPEC" file, which modifies the Linux make file to
suit OpenSolaris. That way you can install VLC on OpenSolaris. Please google
for "spec files"
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You can wait for ORacle Solaris 11 Express out before this years end.
Or use distros from the community. Illumos based distros. OpenIndiana is out
14th september (it is based on b147) but it is not illumos yet. Nexenta is
supported and actively developed.
Or try FreeBSD. It has native ZFS.
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For HDD info, you can use the "format" command. But you need root access to do
that.
Just type "format" as root, and it will show you all discs. Then you can just
quit the program.
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Who runs Dedup anyway? The dedup code was just recently integrated into b134.
b134 is just a checkout from the source repositories, every other week. Dedup
has not been released into an official Solaris distro. Until then, it is in
alfa stage (not even beta) and not to be trusted.
Lesson learne
Too bad to hear. But dedup is not really to be trusted, it has several bugs if
you look in the ZFS forum part. I suggest you post your story in the ZFS forum
part instead of here.
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When I tried the ntfs driver I got like 3MB/sec read speed. What speed do you
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NTFS mount is not supported. It is only a hack. And not a good working one. The
best solution is to attach the drive to another computer and copy via the
network, via CIFS.
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To find out all your drives, use "format" and then ctrl-c. For instance c7d0.
Then I just tried to mount c7d0p1, and if that didnt work, I tried to mount
c7d0p2. etc.
However, when I tried to mount ntfs I only got like 5MB/sec read speed. FAT32
is better, you get maybe 20-30MB/sec or so.
If yo
There are lots of blog posts on how to setup iSCSI. Have you tried them? Have
you tried the COMSTAR functionality to setup iSCSI? Is is a big difference
between EON and OpenSolaris? This is a OpenSolaris forum, I dont know if EON is
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Why is it important to run a NIC in 64bit mode? You can only reach 1GBit, no
matter what.
I have an intel NIC, deskpro 1000 or so. It works great.
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Install OpenSolaris to a separate disk.
For ZFS raid, dont use h-w raid controller card, because ZFS can not offer full
reliability. ZFS wants to get raw access to discs, with no disturbances such as
a controller card.
You must format your raid-5 raid and recreate a new ZFS raid. You should us
That is the reason there are lots of several different OS out there. :o) Some
OSes have the functionality you ask for, others have not. If Linux works fine
on your hardware, why change? "Dont fix what is not broken". Maybe later you
can check if OpenSolaris supports your hardware, then.
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If I change to AHCI in BIOS, and then try to boot my current OpenSolaris, it
will not work to boot. I need to do this trick with importing the current
rpool? Good!
But what happens if I reinstall OpenSolaris? Or use a new drive? Do I need to
change back to non AHCI?
1. Change back to non AHCI
Atom is slower than P4, so you get lower speeds. On my P4 with 1GB RAM, I got
20MB/sec on 4 Samsung 500GB discs in raidz1. If you have 64bit CPU, you get
faster speeds. P4 is 32 bit.
Also, ZFS buffers data, and then writes. Then buffers, then writes. etc.
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It is possible to upgrade directly from 2009.06 to a particular build. I have
done it. There are 10ish commands you have to type. I saw the instructions here
somewhere.
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On sun.com there are loots of manuals. And on "bigadmin" site. Also, on the
site www.c0t0d0s0.org there is a free book, on the top right.
You need not spend money.
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You better get rid of any raid functionality if you try ZFS. The reason is ZFS
can not really do it's magic if there are h/w raid functionality that
intervenes.
Info om home NAS
http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/
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>From 2009.06, you can install a chosen snv revision. I dont know if you can do
>it from 2008.11, but I suspect so. Search for the thread about "marvel
>msx1088x..." ZFS thread for instructions. I have written question how to do
>that, and someone posted the answer
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There is no 2009.12. There will be an 2010.02. It will be released in 2nd month
year 2010. You can download it from opensolaris.com.
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I think Comstar develops fast, and it will be developed on OpenSolaris. So
switch to OpenSolaris?
Regarding OpenSolaris install. It is a live CD. Just boot from it, and when it
has booted, you can click on an icon saying "Install OpenSolaris" and the
install will start. Then you can partition y
I believe you can only install rpool to a mirror as of now.
I would myself never install OpenSolaris onto the same zpool as I use for
storage. I would like to separate data and OS. Therefore, use a separate small
system disc for OS and those 4 discs as a zpool raid storage.
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I dont think L2 cache is important for ZFS. Because a file server will always
read new files and a L2 cache can never fit in a file server work load. You
would need a several GB large L2 cache to do that. With that said, it is
possible to later add/remove a SSD drive as a cache to your zpool. Wi
It is recommended that you use a separate disc for OS and your three 1TB discs
as raidz1 configuration. The separate disc can be a IDE disc, or a USB disc.
The thing is that ZFS likes to have whole discs and not partitions. To use ZFS
to it's full extent, use whole discs. With enough RAM (4GB o
You write:
In the "General" Tab, set it to:
"When the power button is pressed: Shutdown"
But I dont have any option "Shutdown". There is only one option, and it says
"Ask me". So how can I allow my girlfriend to shutdown the computer?
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If you use VMware, make sure that ZFS has direct raw access to the disks.
Pass-through or something?
If VMware installs NTFS/ext3/whatever and you install ZFS on top, you have
pretty much shot yourself in the foot.
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You can upgrade to latest build via command line. Then maybe your problems are
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You could try to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 from www.opensolaris.com
2009.06 means released 6th month in year 2009. The next version will be
2010.02, which means it will be released februar 2010.
Then you should use the "Update Manager" to update to the latest build. The
latest build is curren
I have a user who does not have right to turn off the OpenSolaris 2009.06 b125
computer. How can I allow her to be able to shutdown the computer? Ive looked
at "users" and try to give her a role which allows her to shutdown, but can not
find a role. I do not want to give her root access.
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Instead, you can create two zpools. One ordinary. And a new one, that you
migrate data to. Then you can destroy one zpool without affecting the other.
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You can never remove drives from a zpool. If you add 3 drives, then there must
be 3 drives.
If you have 12 drives in a zpool, you can only add drives. Never remove drives
so you have less than 12
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It is impossible to remove disks. You can however swap them to larger drives.
say you have 500GB drives, then you can swap them one at a time to 2TB.
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ZFS is not that heavy on parity calcs. But you need a 64bit CPU to get speed. I
had a 32bit CPU Pentium 2.4GHz and got 20-30MB/sec. With 64bit CPU I get over
100MB/sec.
You should also benchmark a three raidz2 with 8 drives in each vdev, versus two
raidz2 with 12 drives in each vdev.
raidz2 is
A zfs raid consists of groups of disks. Each group can be
raidz/raidz2/mirror/etc. You can add a whole new group to a zfs raid. But you
can not change an existing group, by adding or removing a disk. You can not
remove a group of disks from a zfs raid. A group is also called a vdev.
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I have installed gcc-4.3.2 via IPS package manager. There is also v3.4.3
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I dont understand your question.
You can migrate all your data from a zpool to another zpool. You can not have
the same discs in both zpools. The discs must be separated. If you want to copy
data to another zpool, use
# zfs snapshot tank/m...@now
# zfs send tank/m...@now | zfs receive newTank/m
And to the CIFS group.
PS. If you have that many drives in a raid, you should split them up into two
vdev. And preferably use raidz2 instead of raidz1. Because if the drives are
large, it takes very long time to resilver a zpool. With large 2-3TB drives it
might take several days. Resilvering
I also need SMART data for my discs. How to get them?
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Have you tried to install it via IPS? It is there. (maybe in the /dev
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How slow is pcfs for you? My pcfs is decent, more than 20MB/sec I think. But
ntfs-3g gives me 2MB/sec which is not usable.
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I want to know how to use UDF as a means of exchanging large files between
different OSes, too. There is no UDF driver?
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I get 100-150MB/sec or so with a similar setup. If you use raidz1, you will
loose one drive for performance, which means you will get 3discs bandwidth.
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When I do /usr/bin/ls --color
it prints bold font for directories and for files. But you mean it should print
colors, just as gnu/ls? How do I do that?
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Ok, there are at least two different ls. The gnu version is the default in
b125. But it can not output ZFS acl properties:
/usr/gnu/bin/ls -V
but is has color.
The SUN version of ls can output ZFS acl properties
/usr/bin/ls -V
but it has no color.
Question: How can I make gnu ls always show col
I think the "ls" command that displays colors, is the gnu variant? Or?
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If you read the bug report you see that the fix is in b125, which is out now.
You didnt have to delete all the snapshots. Instead you could have upgraded to
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That was a long post!
In my opinion, you should not care too much about what people say to you. You
can never get everyone to agree with you, that is impossible. There will always
be people that disagree with you, no matter what opinion you have. I dont think
you should care about what random
I have heard (confirm this!) that OpenSolaris only installs in the first 3-4
partitions. You should confirm this.
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Yes,
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/containers/
Could be a solution, as it allows you to install Solaris 8 inside a virtual
machine ontop Solaris 10.
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Try with VB and see if it solves your solution?
As for installing other OSes. GRUB can chainload into OSOL GRUB.
Linux GRUB shows all OSes. Linux can not boot ZFS. But Linux GRUB chainloads to
OSOL GRUB, which can boot ZFS.
Linux menu.1st contains:
.
title Opensolaris 2009.6
root (hd2,1)
c
How is the transfer speed with ext3? When I mount NTFS within OSOL, I get like
3MB/sec transfer speed.
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Have you checked out SUNs compiler? Sun Studio. But Ive heard Netbeans is good,
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b122 has a new sound architecture called Boomer which is based on OSS. It has
some bugs right now. I also experience sound problems. I think you have to wait
until Boomer is more bug free?
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I dont think you can. There is something called flash archive which allows you
to snapshot a Solaris 10 installation and distribute it to other computers. I
think you have to install from CD.
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If I do pkg image update, I will only get to b118 it seems. Must I issue that
command again to upgrade to b119, and then again to upgrade to b120, etc? Is
there any command to upgrade directly from b117 to b121? How can I upgrade from
b117 to b121?
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AFAK VMware is not available for Solaris. Check VMware webpage for "system
requirements"?
Regarding SSD, I dont know.
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There is some flashplayer on IPS. I have 64bit CPU intel 9450 and flash works
for me in FF.
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and try again. Try to move 10-20GB or so to another disc and see if the problem
disappears.
When ZFS reports you have some free space avaiable, that report is not entirely
accurate (as I understood it). This means that maybe you have only 10GB free
when ZFS says you have 30GB free.
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The suggestion is: all filesystems get slow when the disc is almost full.
Therefore, see that you have free space on your drive. Above 90% is not good.
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Look if you can install "webmin" via IPS? Or if you can download webmin via
opencsw.org
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You could install OpenSolaris inside the free VirtualBox. Maybe this would be
your best bet?
Install VirtualBox on top Windows XP. Install OpenSolaris on top VirtualBox.
Then it doesnt matter if you screw up your OpenSolaris install, nothing can
happen to Windows. And you dont have to partition
You use CIFS instead of Samba. Only OpenSolaris supports CIFS. You have to
download these two packages first, via IPS.
SUNWsmbskr and SUNWsmbs
Then you follow this guide.
http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn/entry/bondin
Remember to reboot if you see this error msg:
"failed to join WORKGROUP: INTERNAL
ZFS grabs all memory it can get, as a cache. But as soon memory is needed, it
will release memory. No worry, your apps get all memory they need.
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have you tried
#zpool import
and then
#zpool import -f nameOfYourZFSraid
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I have an old Azureus version somewhere that I used to run on Solaris SXCE. The
old Azureus version dont use SWT. You can download the old version from Solaris
guy "Trisk" homepage, I think. Now I use preinstalled Transmission instead with
OpenSolaris. It uses less resources than Azures.
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rc directories is the old way of managing starting services. The new way is SMF:
http://www.princeton.edu/~unix/Solaris/troubleshoot/smf.html
But rc directories still work, for backwards compatibility reasons. rc,
basically you create a boot script which is renamed with a number. That number
tel
You download the server software from SUN.com and try it for 90 days. If you
are happy, you can pay. It's not that expensive. You can buy a refurbished
SunRay for 40USD on ebay, download the server software and try. The SunRay
server software will be available as a download via IPS in a couple o
Actually, I am very ignorant about this stuff and dont know much. Ive only read
about this, and havent tried it myself. The things I write on this subject,
should not be regarded as accurate.
I believe:
iSCSI requires OpenSolaris to act as a server (initiator), this functionality
is included in
As I understand it, the server needs no special NIC to work with iSCSI. Here is
more reading:
http://blog.juhonkoti.net/2008/06/29/sharing-iscsi-volumes-from-solaris-to-windows-xp
And if you want to use fat diskless clients with iSCSI:
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/31/a-completely-l
Have you studied iSCSI? With iSCSI you can export a ZFS volume via LAN. The
client thinks that the ZFS volume is an internal SCSI hard disk. Therefore you
can format the ZFS volume and install WinXP or Linux on top. And boot from the
"internal SCSI disk" over LAN.
I think COMSTAR can also do t
It sounds like fiddling with GRUB within Linux, setting the active partition to
"OpenSolaris" partition will give control to OpenSolaris again. I dont know how
to do that, though. Read about GRUB.
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AMD64 means you have a 64bit CPU, x86 means 32bit. I think that the Core Duo
E6850 is 64bit? Hence, it is correct with AMD64 for you. Solaris/OpenSolaris
will automatically install the correct version for your CPU. I think VirtualBox
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Building VLC is difficult. You can try the SPEC files for VLC and see if you
succeed better. SPEC files (as I understand it) is Solaris make changes to
Linux make files. SPEC files takes the Linux make file and apply Solaris
changes. I think you have a better chance of succeeding with SPEC files
Here you have some info about hardware in the comments:
http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/
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I get the same error on a fresh install of build 105. What is going on?
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When I boot from install DVD, I have different options what kind of install I
want to do. I had to try different options, otherwise the keyboard would stop
work. And in one option, the installation hang at "..."
I have the same mobo as you have, but intel 9450. I can not really r
I have an old Dell D600 laptop that works with solaris.
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Ive installed from blastwave.org. Works perfect. And a small install too. Like
50KB or so.
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Maybe the forum at virtualbox site would give your question higher exposure to
VB knowledgable guys?
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Thanx a lot. You save my day, posting the work around here. :o)
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That is the error I get. But in english. 1.6.4 doesnt work. 1.6.2 should be
used until 1.6.6 comes out which will happen around ~23 august 2008.
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VB v1.6.4 doesnt even work on Solaris Express b95. I need 1.6.2 now. The Sun
download site is very messy. Someone knows how to find 1.6.2?
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If you use Solaris Express, then you can go to blastwave.org and install emacs
as a package. You use OpenSolaris, you should therefore post your question in
www.opensolaris.com instead to get better exposure. Maybe you can install all
packages from blastwave.org on OpenSolaris too? Maybe worth a
I start up Solaris first, and then start up the Windows machine and everything
works. I dont need to do anything.
If you want to share files, you can use CIFS. There is a CIFS sub forum here.
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I think it could be good for future reference if you posted your solution here
also, for others to read? I use this forum to document my problems and I always
post the solution too, for other people to read. Dont you think it could be a
good idea?
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If you have GRUB installed, you get the choice to boot into "fail safe Solaris
mode" or something similar. That is what you want.
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Lars,
do you have any clue regarding this eländiga RTL8111? I cut & copy the
information into this post from my original thread:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64893&tstart=0
ABSTRACT: This post is about PCI express RTL8111 issues
I took a lot risk by bying bleading
My progress this far with dual NIC on intel P45 chipset, GA-EP45-DS3P mobo:
scanpci
pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10ec device 0x8168
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
controller
pci bus 0x0004 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10
Dabble with BIOS?
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=63956&tstart=30
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I can not post and ask in "Announce". Therefore I ask here. Anyone knows? Is
there a web site showing the schedule?
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have you tried blastwave.org or building it with the Solaris makefile CBE?
Search for CBE and spec files here.
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http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/lksfbook/lksf_book_alpha.pdf
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