I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction... I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and has 2 single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks... But, I dont know what to install on it... I was thinking of SmartOS, but the site mentions Intel support for VT, but nothing for AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont be using XEN, but the Zones may be useful... Any advice? Thanks! -- Tiernan O''Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.geekphotographer.com www.tiernanotoole.ie _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Tiernan OToole wrote:> I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction... > I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and has 2 single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks... > But, I dont know what to install on it... I was thinking of SmartOS, but the site mentions Intel support for VT, but nothing for > AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont be using XEN, but the Zones may be useful...OpenIndiana or OmniOS seem like the most likely candidates. You can run VirtualBox on OpenIndiana and it should be able to work without VT extensions. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
to tell you the truth, i dont really need the virtualization stuff... Zones sounds interesting, since it seems to be ligher weight than Xen or anything like that... On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Tiernan OToole wrote: > > I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can >> point me in the right direction... >> I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and has >> 2 single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks... >> But, I dont know what to install on it... I was thinking of SmartOS, but >> the site mentions Intel support for VT, but nothing for >> AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont be using XEN, but the Zones >> may be useful... >> > > OpenIndiana or OmniOS seem like the most likely candidates. > > You can run VirtualBox on OpenIndiana and it should be able to work > without VT extensions. > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/** > users/bfriesen/ <http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/> > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/-- Tiernan O''Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.geekphotographer.com www.tiernanotoole.ie _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
> support for VT, but nothing for AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont > be using XEN, but the Zones may be useful...We use XEN/PV on X4200 for many years without problems. dom0: X4200+openindiana+xvm guests(PV): openindiana,linux/fedora,linux/debian (vmlinuz-2.6.32.28-xenU-32,vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU64) regards Heiko
On 2013-03-11 21:50, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Tiernan OToole wrote: > >> I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can >> point me in the right direction... >> I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and >> has 2 single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks... >> But, I dont know what to install on it... I was thinking of SmartOS, >> but the site mentions Intel support for VT, but nothing for >> AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont be using XEN, but the >> Zones may be useful... > > OpenIndiana or OmniOS seem like the most likely candidates. > > You can run VirtualBox on OpenIndiana and it should be able to work > without VT extensions.Also note that without the extensions VirtualBox has some quirks. Most notably, lack of "acceleration" and support for virtual SMP. But unlike some other virtualizers, it should work (does work for us on a Thumper also with pre-VTx Opteron CPUs). However, recently the VM "virtual hardware" clocks became way slow. I am at loss so far, the forum was moderately helpful - probably the load on the host and induced latencies have their role. But the problem does happen on more modern hardware too, so VTx (lack of) shouldn''t be our reason... //Jim
On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov@cos.ru> wrote:> However, recently the VM "virtual hardware" clocks became way slow.Does NTP help correct the guest''s clock?
On 2013-03-15 01:58, Gary Driggs wrote:> On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov@cos.ru> wrote: > >> However, recently the VM "virtual hardware" clocks became way slow. > > Does NTP help correct the guest''s clock?Unfortunately no, neither guest NTP, ntpdate or rdate in crontabs, nor VirtualBox timesync settings, alone or even combined for test (though known to conflict) - nothing has definitely helped so far. We also have some setups on rather not-loaded hardware where after a few days of uptime the clock stalls to the point that it has a groundhog day - rotating over the same 2-3 second range for hours, until the VM is powered off and booted. Conversely, we also have dozens of VMs (and a few hosts) where no such problems occur. Weird stuff... //Jim
Thanks for the info. I am planning g the install this weekend, between formula one and other hardware upgrades... fingers crossed it works! On 14 Mar 2013 09:19, "Heiko L." <h.lehmann@hs-lausitz.de> wrote:> > > support for VT, but nothing for AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i > wont > > be using XEN, but the Zones may be useful... > > We use XEN/PV on X4200 for many years without problems. > dom0: X4200+openindiana+xvm > guests(PV): openindiana,linux/fedora,linux/debian > (vmlinuz-2.6.32.28-xenU-32,vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU64) > > > regards Heiko > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >_______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss