OpenSolaris
When Solaris Containers debuted with Solaris 10 many of us were blown away. At the time Zones became my primary passion because I was suffering from a massive shortage of test systems for everything from deployment testing to Enlightenment build and test install systems. I needed lots and lots of systems but they didn't need lots of CPU or memory, they just needed isolated Solaris installations and Zones filled that hole perfectly. But ...
We're very lucky in the OpenSolaris community to have a variety of ways to stay current. They include: Mercurial (SCM) Access: hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate Regular Full Code Drops: OpenSolaris Download Center, including BFU Archives (Binary) and Source Solaris Express, both Community Edition each new build and Developer Edition released quarterly. Thats a lot of choice which is a estimate to the hard ...
If your a voting member (check grant status here) of the OpenSolaris community please, please, please go vote now! I imagine some people are waiting for more interviews to be posted by Simon Phipps as he conducts canidate interview podcasts... but please, don't wait, go vote now! You have until March 26th (next Monday), but don't let it slip your mind and pass you by. This is an extremely important time for the community to show its engaged ...
OpenSolaris will hold its first major community wide election next week, with voting opening on March 12th. The voting system is currently open now for testing, please take this opportunity to familiarize yourself with the system and help test it now. The voting system is pretty simple but may be a bit odd at first. You simply create an SSH key pair (ssh-keygen) and add that public key to your OpenSolaris Profile page. You can add up ...
As everyone should know by now, Daylight Savings Time has been moved this year to the second Sunday of March: March 11th. (Can you believe its March already?) Naturally anyone on OpenSolaris will want to know whether or not to worry. The quick answer is: if your on Nevada Build 31 or newer your OK. The more verbose answer is that the original BugID's for our upcoming change are: 6348147: Changes to libc 6226357: Changes to the ...
There was good news for Solaris today and I think a great breakthrough in terms of acceptance thanks to an announcement from HP to formally support Solaris on HP X86 systems. The Register reported this today and rightly named the article: "HP smacks Sun with Solaris stick". Read the HP Press Release. Here are some choice lines: HP is making it easier for dissatisfied Sun Microsystems server customers to migrate to higher performing, ...
I just completed my talk at the 2007 Connectathon, the yearly NFS gathering for interop testing. I'm thankful to Tom Haynes for having me. It was a nerve racking exercise to prepare for it... what do I have to share with the guys that wrote NFS? I described it to my wife this way: "You use Post-It Notes right? - Yeah. -What if 3M asked you to give a presentation on them? - Your screwed." Jason Hoffman came to the rescue and helped me ...
Sun's Enterprise Class Replication solution for open storage systems is now part of OpenSolaris! OpenSolaris Project: Sun StorageTek Availability Suite is now OPEN! This brings into the open source realm a component we've been missing, a real serious replication solution for point-in-time image replication and continuous site-to-site replication. Pair this with OpenSolaris, Thumper, ZFS and...... can you see where we're headed here!?!...
Here are the slides from my Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group talk. Thanks to everyone who attended, listened in, or played along via Glynn Foster's excellent IRC log of the event. I'm sorry I didn't upload the slides prior or during the talk (like I said I would) but I couldn't access the net from my MacBook in the room. Questions or comments on the presentation are welcome. Because the crowd was so technical I chopped all ...
Doownload it now. Behold the power of Duckhorn: zonecfg:z00001AS> info zonename: z00001AS zonepath: /zones/z00001AS brand: native autoboot: true bootargs: pool: limitpriv: scheduling-class: FSS [max-lwps: 5000] [cpu-shares: 10] inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /lib inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /platform inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /sbin inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /usr net: address: x ...