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Dan McDonald<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.retroedge.tech/users/matthew" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>matthew</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stratacast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stratacast</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@subnetspider" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>subnetspider</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/OpenIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenIndiana</span></a> is desktop focussed.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a> is single-server-or-VM-guest focussed.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/SmartOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartOS</span></a> is hypervisor-focussed.</p><p>All are <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> distributions. I know SmartOS has paid-support options (though usually we support <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Triton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Triton</span></a> Data Center deployments).</p><p>Also <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> distros include dedicated appliance/device user like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@oxidecomputer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>oxidecomputer</span></a></span> 's Helios or RackTop's BrickStore.</p><p>That help?</p>
matthew - retroedge.techFrom what I understand, OmniOS is the actively used descendant of Sun Solaris. <br><br><a href="https://omnios.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://omnios.org/</a><br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://social.retroedge.tech/tag/unix" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.retroedge.tech/tag/solaris" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solaris</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.retroedge.tech/tag/omnios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#omniOS</a>
joany<p>No joy yet, the documentation is not understandable for me, how to setup a ppt device in a zone</p><p>set device <br>match=/dev/ppt2</p><p>and then on?<br><a href="https://illumos.org/man/8/bhyve" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">illumos.org/man/8/bhyve</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://man.omnios.org/7/bhyve#ppt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">man.omnios.org/7/bhyve#ppt</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A blogger using <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a> passing bhyve zone commands <br>in a attr<br><a href="https://www.cyber-tec.org/2019/05/29/using-bhyve-pci-passthrough-on-omnios/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cyber-tec.org/2019/05/29/using</span><span class="invisible">-bhyve-pci-passthrough-on-omnios/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/tribblix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribblix</span></a> did not like that at all 😂</p>
joany<p><a href="https://blackdot.be/2023/11/illumos-bhyve-intel-arc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blackdot.be/2023/11/illumos-bh</span><span class="invisible">yve-intel-arc/</span></a></p><p>Best one yet, managed to get USB dev as a ppt dev.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SmartOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartOS</span></a> and i did not agree with ppt_aliases or ppt_matches.<br><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OmniOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOs</span></a> and pcieadm utility made it understandable on my level <br>prtconf -dD is ALOT 😂<br>But after i have seen output of pcieadm it makes more sense.</p><p>So tomorrow i will try my favorite <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/tribblix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribblix</span></a> to see if we can get passthrough going</p>
Stefano Marinelli<p>People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for? <br>I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk</p><p>Please boost</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SmartOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a></p>
Ríni Fogol<p>Congratulation to the <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illumos</span></a> team for the new release!</p>
Ríni Fogol<p>Get ready for the new <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a> release...</p>
Jan Schaumann<p>System Administration</p><p>Week 10, Time Travel and Snapshots</p><p>Get in, we have to go back... to the snaphots!</p><p>In this video, we demonstrate filesystem snapshots using fss(4) on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a>, ZFS on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a>, and how NetApp's WAFL and macOS's Time Machine work.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/zIEBnZAd5dE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/zIEBnZAd5dE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SRE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a></p>
Stefano Marinelli<p>Plans for tomorrow: among other things, test the refactored <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSSG</span></a> on illumos-based OS.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SmartOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a></p>
joany<p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zadm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zadm</span></a> has a built-in web vnc.</p><p>Oh the irony</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/runzones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>runzones</span></a></p>
Thomas Munro<p>Not sure if I can reach any <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openindiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openindiana</span></a> people here, but here goes: does anyone know if there is a well maintained GCP image that could be used to run some flavour of illumos? PostgreSQL uses Cirrus CI with Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, Windows, macOS images. illumos is a missing target!</p>
Michael Dexter<p>Related, to whom it may concern…</p><p>The <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a> boo loader does not appear to support ‘unset pptdevs’ and I sure could have used that tonight.</p><p>Ping <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@Toasterson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Toasterson</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://techhub.social/@SolarisDiaspora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SolarisDiaspora</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ptribble" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ptribble</span></a></span> et. al.</p>
Volker A. Brandt :meckenheim:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsd.network/@dexter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dexter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefano</span></a></span> Nice! Wonder if this could be reproduced using <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/bhyve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bhyve</span></a> on <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a>, specifically <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a>...</p>
Jan Schaumann<p>System Administration</p><p>Week 2, Partitions</p><p>In this video, we'll talk about how to divide a single disk -- physical or virtual -- and how the partitions relate to the physical structure of the disk. We show examples partitioning disks on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a>, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> using the disklabel, fdisk, and format tools.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/vmL9ZUh_j2U" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/vmL9ZUh_j2U</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SRE</span></a></p>
Jan Schaumann<p>System Administration</p><p>Week 2, Storage Virtualization</p><p>In this video, we cover the concept of storage virtualization -- combining individual disks into larger storage pools and utilizing resources from such a pool. This includes a discussion of RAID and some of the different supported levels as well as Logical Volume Management (by example on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>). We also illustrate some of these properties by example of ZFS (on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a>).</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/tw-QTAoYU9w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/tw-QTAoYU9w</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SRE</span></a></p>
joany<p>So any good courses to learn OmniOS and/or SmartOS?</p><p>TIL that SmartOS have ready Debian VMs so if i can't run it in a LX zone, i can just grab a ready made zvol and run it in a bhyve zone.<br><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/pihole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pihole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/smartos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a></p>
joany<p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> ? What is your BSD take on this?</p><p>I was trying to get pihole running on a LX container in <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a> no luck</p><p>i have used <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/unbound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unbound</span></a> and a joany-custom blocklist</p>
Pete Orrall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefano</span></a></span> I hadn't heard of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a> until I started following your account. While I have not yet used it, I did read a fair amount about it. Wow! This is one capable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a> OS! 🤯</p>
Stefano Marinelli<p>Lately, I've been very busy, both with work and personal matters. However, I did manage to do a series of experiments and tests with OmniOS, and I admit that for some workloads, it has definitely convinced me. Not to replace FreeBSD, but to complement it. Some advantages:</p><p>- The ability to run both KVM and bhyve VMs is a big advantage because, in some cases, I need to run VMs on KVM (some technicians know it and prefer it).<br>- By giving dedicated zones, I can assign one to each user who needs to manage their VM. This can also be done on FreeBSD by using bhyve in jails. I’ve tried it, and it works well.<br>- The LX zones (Linux) are more compatible compared to FreeBSD zones with the Linuxulator. Systemd works, and the zone limits are correctly reported by Linux commands such as free, etc. Sometimes, I need to give users Linux VMs, and I must use bhyve because the non-functioning systemd and incorrectly displayed limits (it always reports total RAM, not the one limited to the jail) are blocking. In this way, I can avoid double-caching, double kernel, etc.<br>- Some people, when they hear Illumos, think I’m talking about a new type of lamps. When I talk about *BSD, they think I’m talking about "nerdy" stuff. But as soon as I mention Solaris, their eyes widen because, in their imagination, it represents stability and security par excellence. So welcome OmniOS!</p><p>However, I have a series of issues that are limiting my testing/deployment:<br>1) No problem on Hetzner physical hosts – both in ipv4 and ipv6. I just need to configure the global zone with a /72 IP (instead of /64) and assign another /72 to the interface that will be assigned to the zones, enabling routing. It works; Hetzner accepts this routed setup, a dynamic I have already encountered and tested successfully on FreeBSD.<br>2) Hetzner VPS "cloud" servers: The Virtio-SCSI supported by Illumos is 1af4:1004, while the Virtio SCSI controller at Hetzner is: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio 1.0 SCSI [1af4:1048] (rev 01). This means that OmniOS VMs cannot boot. I reported this in the OmniOS IRC channel, and they confirmed the incompatibility. It shouldn’t be hard to adapt/create the driver, but personally, I am not able to, so I’m stuck.<br>3) It runs well on Netcup, and everything works fine in ipv4, but I am encountering issues (the same ones I had with FreeBSD) with ipv6. It seems that Netcup doesn’t like that type of routing, so I have to assign ipv6 to the main interface, using shared routing. It doesn’t make me jump for joy. Also, in this case, there seem to be problems (no issues from the global zone, but from other zones, I can ping Google, but there are reachability issues with other hosts. I am investigating; I remember having the same issue on FreeBSD, but I don’t remember if/how I solved it).</p><p>The experiments will continue in the coming days.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illumos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OmniOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OmniOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Hetzner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hetzner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Netcup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netcup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ipv6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ipv6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Networking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a></p>
Toasterson<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@bexcran" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bexcran</span></a></span> cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsd.network/@dexter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dexter</span></a></span> We currently have a PR in review for OpenIndiana <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/bHyve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bHyve</span></a> where it looks like for at least one contributor that CSM has been completely dropped upstream in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> can somebody you know confirm this? Or should we get different sources? <a href="https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/20086" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-user</span><span class="invisible">land/pull/20086</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/omnios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>omnios</span></a></p>