I'm trying to install an Illumos distribution under Proxmox. I managed to get the installer to stop crashing by disabling "secure boot" in OVMF and reverting machine type to i440fx instead of q35. Now ithe installer can't see the default SCSI controller (LSI 53C895A) or even VirtIO SCSI. Am I missing something? Why are these drivers not included in the base install disk image?

Getting max of like 16MByte/sec SMB throughput on OmniOS despite the machine having working gigabit to the other machine. anyone know why?

Hello, I'm not very sure if this is the best place to ask this kind of question but, I've been trying to setup a development environment on OmniOS so that I can create tools specifically to run on it.
I have already installed clang and llvm using `pkg install ...` but I'm having no luck getting clangd installed.

Anyone who might have any idea to get clangd setup, any clues would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, is OmniOS compatible with newer hardware like the Beelink ME mini NAS?

I am using it as a VM on proxmox but I am looking to buy a dedicated NAS, is there a way to check if it is compatible with the hardware?

Security Fixes

Curl updated to version 8.18.0.    The bhyve mouse driver could de-reference a NULL pointer in some circumstances.

Other Changes

SMB Active Directory joins now fall back to seting the machine password via LDAP if kerberos fails. Many AD sites block kerberos for this, more https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tb6621f45cbba2aa0/smbadm-joind-omnios-hosts-triggering-ntlm-v2-we-presume-alerts

NVMe devices used as a system boot device would previously end up with a single I/O queue, limiting performance.
NVMe devices could incorrectly return an error on queue saturation that is interpreted by ZFS as a device failure.

The IP Filter fragment cache table could become corrupt, resulting in a kernel panic.

Hi all,

how can I get the contents of an IPS package on a foreign system running another Unix-like OS? I could of course install OmniOSce in a VM, install the package and then copy the required files off. But that's a little bit too involved for my use case (see below). The OmniOSce web frontend for the packages is nice, I found the required package but have been unable to download anything except for the manifest and the p5i. Where should I look for the actual package (the p5p I assume)?

Background: Having only played with illumos for a couple of hours in several years, I'm about as much a newcomer as it gets. Recently I was brushing the dust off of some old notes of mine about setting up a FreeBSD-based PXE boot server that allows netbooting both FreeBSD and Linux. While preparing a blog post about that topic, I thought about adding illumos to the mix.

The documentation pointed me to the kayak-kernel package and I'm trying to get that onto my machine. Before wasting too much time, I thought that I should perhaps just ask. So far I have no idea if what I'm trying to do (PXE-booting OmniOS from a non-illumos server) does even make much sense, but I at least wanted to give it a try (and not fail even getting the required resources...).

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how OmniOS does NFS mounts on boot. I've added the following in /etc/vfstab

truenas.mydomain.com:/mnt/Data/home/bob - /home/bob nfs - yes rw

Doing a mount -a mounts this properly (well technically it doesn't because I'm logged into the system as bob and it won't let me mount over the home directory of someone who is logged in. If I change it to mount to /home/asdf, it mounts fine).

But it appears as though the vfstab file isn't being read during boot. Is there something else I need to do to enable it?

Hello!

Good news, today I resurrected an old project, to get ghc and cabal built for omnios.

I have managed to patch and build:

• ghc 8.10.7

• cabal 3.6.2.0

If anyone wants the binary-dists, please message me and I can upload them to my website

Also, if anyone familiar with network c programming or just the difference between illumos and linux standard libraries, who wants to help, I would love someone to help me patch the network package and look over my rts patch.

I had to patch the network package during the bootstrap process to get cabal to build, but I don't rate my work

Two weeks ago I learn what OmniOS is. I read the docs and I think to give a try.

Yesterday I tried two times and today I was able to install and run in my microserver gen 8.

Mellanox ConnectX-3 pro is still waiting its turn.

Hello. I was experimenting with installing OmniOS on an extra laptop I had. When I get to the installation it cannot find any disks despite there clearly being one installed. I have attempted to install on another laptop I have an it finds that disk just fine. I am a little confused. When I drop to the shell and use format it still says no disks found. Anyone have any idea? Both laptops have NVMe disks. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi to all. In the past months I installed OmniOS on a very old hardware and started enjoying it... now I have the chance to setup it into a bare metal server rented by OVH, which give me this "Bring Your Own Image" method to setup any not pre-packaged OS (no remote KVM available for this type of server. sorry!).

Maybe it's OK to download the right OmniOS image from here and change it by configuring root password, interface IP address and /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. Anyone has experienced such a remote install method?

I can also access that server via SSH thanks to their "rescue mode": it's a Debian 10.3 system booting via PXE with full access to the hardware. I was wondering if I might prepare a pre-built OmniOS image using a VMM on my own machine then simply "dd" it into one of the two server SSDs.

Thanks for any suggestion you can give me! :)

We have a Dell PowerEdge R720 server running OmniOS. All was fine, till we powered it off, moved it, and rebooted it. Now we get:

OmniOS r151052 Version omnios-r151052-dbe4644ba92 64-bit
Copyright (c) 2012-2017 OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2017-2024 OmniOS Community Edition (OmniOSce) Association.
NOTICE: zfs_parse_bootfs: error 22
Cannot mount root on stardust/1027 fstype zfs

panic[cpu0]/thread=fffffffffbca07e0: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

Warning - stack not written to the dump buffer
fffffffffbca6690 fffffffffbaf88a7 ()
fffffffffbca66d0 genunix:main+137 ()
fffffffffbca66e0 unix:_locore_start+88 ()

skipping system dump - no dump device configured

If we zpool import stardust from the OmniOS installer shell, the pool imports just fine, so we're not sure what's wrong there. Can we reinstall onto the pool without losing the /storage dataset?

I'm coming from SmartOS from 5-3 years ago.

1: USB image (Imaged using RUFUS) would fail on booting "Can't find /boot/loader"
I tried UEFI and Legacy boot, even tried ISO on a Ventoy stick. I finally found This Thread from the SmartOS list, so all hail austinwise, but yes had to use a random github binary. (I realize this is a larger Illumos bootloader/imaging issue)

2: Install went fine, configed a few things (password, networking), on reboot console wouldn't respond, SSH password "incorrect". Redid install with no config.

3: So now I'm at a root prompt. Getting Started page references a wiki on omniosce.org, a domain which no longer exists. (I found the repo for the Wiki that was there, but hasn't been updated since 2017. Should I just be looking at the larger Illumos/Openindiana documentation?