Hi Irish, thanks for that.
I'm not so concerned with supporting a local display, more with accessing gfx memory. If I can read frames from the card I can put them on a network interface. I take your point tho, and it's probably a hair brained scheme. I'll spend some time reading the archives. Cheers, Jono On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > This topic has been discussed quite a bit on this mailing list. > > Long story short, SmartOS is not a workstation OS and there is no > infrastructure to support a local non-text display off the video card in > the host you're running SmartOS. It's simply the wrong tool for the job. > > On Thursday, September 24, 2015, Jonathan Poff < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi, this is my first post here. >> >> I recently bought an i7 desktop for personal use and I'm thinking of >> booting with SmartOS instead of a traditional OS. >> >> Platform wise, I intend to use Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS/Slackware ...) >> alongside Windows 7. >> >> The box has 16GB RAM, 256GB(?) SSD and nVidia Quadro K2200 gfx card. >> >> I'm planning to use OpenGL and CUDA for AI and video projects and hoping >> to avoid platform specific code as far as possible. >> >> I have 2 or 3 years experience developing on Solaris 10 and am a big fan >> of dtrace. >> >> I'd be interested to hear any opinion on whether this is a) a brilliant >> idea or b) a fool's errand. In particular I'm wondering how SmartOS >> virtualization (and VMs in general) might cope with the OpenGL/CUDA API's >> and direct access to texture memory etc. I have zero experience of using >> VM's to access specialized hardware. >> >> Cheers, >> Jono >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended >> recipient. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the >> subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by >> reason of this transmission. >> If you are not an intended recipient, you may not use, disseminate, >> distribute or reproduce such email, any attachments, or any part thereof. >> If you have received a message in error, please notify the sender >> immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. >> Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or >> corrupted during transmission nor can we guarantee that any email or any >> attachments are free from computer viruses or other conditions which may >> damage or interfere with recipient data, hardware or software. The >> recipient relies upon its own procedures and assumes all risk of use and of >> opening any attachments. >> ------------------------------ >> > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27688876-7113b843> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- *Jonathan Poff* *Senior Design Engineer* Tait Communications DDI: +64 3 3579816 Email: [email protected] www.taitradio.com -- ------------------------------ This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended recipient. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not use, disseminate, distribute or reproduce such email, any attachments, or any part thereof. If you have received a message in error, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission nor can we guarantee that any email or any attachments are free from computer viruses or other conditions which may damage or interfere with recipient data, hardware or software. The recipient relies upon its own procedures and assumes all risk of use and of opening any attachments. ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
