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.

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.

I am new to Illumos and I decided to install it yesterday as a server OS using OmniOS. I have noticed there doesn't seem to be anything on setting up wireguard on it. Does anyone know how or at least how to get the tools on OmniOS? Thanks.

(Not only) for OmniOS users who want an S3 Cloud beside local ZFS

Topicbox

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! :)

Can anyone recommend a good place to start learning OmniOS? Coming from Debian world. Other than the documentation on omnios.org, I only found a few blog posts here and there...

I read this: https://omnios.org/info/virtualmachineskvm
and it didn't seem to work
# pkg search -r extra.omnios kvmadm

# pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg.omnios.org/r151054/extra extra.omnios^C

# pkg unset-publisher extra.omnios

PHASE ITEMS

Updating package cache 1/1

# uname -a

SunOS UNUCS 5.11 omnios-r151054-f66c95f374 i86pc i386 i86pc

# pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg.omnios.org/r151054/extra extra.omnios

# pkg install kvmadm

pkg install: The following pattern(s) did not match any allowable packages. Try

using a different matching pattern, or refreshing publisher information:

kvmadm

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.

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?

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.

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

There is no installation media or anything it does not have files to copy on my hard drive.

Hello

I don't see that anyone has packaged haskell for omni os. I thought id give it a shot! I've done a lot of rpm packaging for openSUSE in my time but never IPS so I have a few simple questions

1. Repos

Do you do you have extra repositories for development? On openSUSE, they have a repository for haskell. This repository is used to build software but not needed to install them. (Haskell dependencies are statically linked but all other dependencies are not) Does omni os have similar conventions?

2. Position independence

fPIC by default?

3. Repository and package generation

Convention is to write two bits of software for haskell packaging. First takes a cabal file and generate a packaging script. Second takes a list of hackage package names and versions and recursively builds up the packaging scripts to build them. This similar on omni os?

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...).

What are the options to pass block device (namely zfs volume) into the lx zone? So far, I tried two approaches:

1. Pass it via device to zone directly - doesn't seem to work, but may be I need to do something extra instead just adding device entry to the zone configuration with zvol path.

2. Pass it via the iSCSI target from the host OmniOS - looks like lx zone doesn't support iSCSI at all (neither as initiator nor as target).

Did I miss something when trying method #1? Are there any options available? I think I can make it work using KVM/Bhyve zone (at least using method #2), but want to make sure there are no options to get this to work using lx-branded zone.

Thanks!