On 10/28/17 02:18 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for getting back to me. I actually had mentioned this to
someone that replied to me so as to give a little purpose for the
exploration and as to why I was interested in SmartOS specifically
over OpenIndiana which was suggested as well.
For this POC project there are 2 area that I am considering, but the
key to wanting to use SmartOS is that it has a very small cloud level
footprint and is geared toward just being a hypervisor which is
exactly what I need. I do not really want all of the extra fluff that
is included in other Illumos-based distributions that are geared
towards being more of a "general" OS. This is really more towards an
extreme minimalist hypervisor approach without the external clustering
at this step which may come up in a future discussion.
The 2 areas that I am seeking to explore with SmartOS are these:
1.) Possibly adding a GUI over the CLI for local administration.
(i.e. very simple and small XServer although there are a number of
possible options (MicroXWin, Y Window System, Wayland Display Server,
DirectFB, Xynth Window System, Fresco, Metisse, and KDrive "or
TinyX" which may/may not work with Ilumos-based systems)
2.) Ultimately, I would also really like to have a local XServer with
just a single VNC/Spice client either in the global zone or another
zone so that I can remote into the other local zones.
These are the current interests for this basic exploration. Of course,
Triton SDC and Danube have it covered for clustering in the much
larger data center approach and this was mainly just to play around
with local hypervisors on a single system.
You can use Triton for a single system "data centre" :)
--
Ian.
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