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SmartOS

Jun 12, 2024

Hot off the press, new HVM images for #SmartOS and #TritonDataCenter.

https://smartos.org/images/

* Alma/Rocky Linux 8, 9
* Debian 11, 12
* Ubuntu 20, 22, 24

Highlights:

* Updated to the latest point release
* Trimmed some unnecessary default packages for Alma/Rocky
* Ubuntu 24.04

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Operator Jun 2, 2024

2024 March, April and May

Adding more swap space to OmniOS
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/omnios-add-swap.html

Updating NIC properties in SmartOS
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/updating_nic_properties.html

Debugging a crashdump in SmartOS
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/debugging_crashdump.html

Running NetBSD on OmniOS using bhyve
https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/running-netbsd-on-omnios-using-bhyve/

Tailscale for illumos updated to v1.66.4
https://github.com/nshalman/tailscale/releases/tag/v1.66.4-sunos

OpenIndiana Release 2024.04
https://openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipster-2024-04-announcement/

OmniOS Community Edition r151050
https://omnios.org/article/r50.html

SmartOS 20240530T000454Z
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240530T000454Z

2024-02-29 Triton DataCenter Office Hours: Web GUI for SmartOS Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKKOIgw5mQ

2024-03-14 Triton DataCenter Office Hours: Back to Basics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzN6Wt-eQw

2024-03-28 Triton DataCenter Office Hours: Images and Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTgLKjcVYoA

2024-05-23 Triton DataCenter Office Hours: Learning From Disasters, Failures, and Mistakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxaX5IbOuQ0

Editor’s note №1: This blog post was researched, written, edited and published on an OpenIndiana Workstation.

Editor’s note №2: I have been away for a while due to ETOOMUCHWORK, however, I will continue posting on weekly basis. My apologies to the community.

https://news.illumos.am/2024-march-april-may/

#bhyve #debugging #illumos #NetBSD #OfficeHours #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #SmartOS #Tailscale #TritonDataCenter

Adding more swap space to Omnios

Operator Feb 27, 2024

2024W08

Booting OmniOS using iPXE
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/ipxe_boot.html

OpenIndiana Package updates include:
— Firefox updated to 123.0
— Thunderbird updated to 115.8.0
— HAProxy updated to 2.8.6
— NVIDIA 470 updated to 470.239.06
— NVIDIA updated to 550.54.14
— Samba updated to 4.19.5
— PHP updated to 8.2.16
— MariaDB updated to 10.6.17
— Many MATE components are updated to 1.28.0
— git updated to 2.44.0
— xterm updated to 390
And much more!

OmniOS Extras updates include:
— Squid Web Proxy v6.7 has been added
— Switched to Python 3.12

Tailscale for illumos updated to v1.60.0
https://github.com/nshalman/tailscale/releases/tag/v1.60.0-sunos

2024-02-15 Triton DataCenter Office Hours: Hypervisor Landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW24RUjEgcM
Join the next call: https://discord.gg/v4NwA3Hqay

2024-02-22 bhyve Production Users Call
https://youtu.be/d2itG4o1rMA

2024-02-21 OpenZFS Production Users Call
https://youtu.be/Hz-xPzmeEP4

2024-02-20 jail(8)/zones(7) Production Users Call
https://youtu.be/Q-OoE0L031M

SmartOS 20240222T001232Z
Interesting changes include:
— vmadm should worry less about bootrom
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240222T001232Z

Support for Intel i225/226 2.5GbE igc(4D) has landed!
https://www.illumos.org/issues/14448
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/6bbbd4428a21d3f4d1d329851dbc599121cb5d31

pstack(1) works with Python (again!)
https://www.illumos.org/issues/16272
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/616d60f414d125f2dfc25908ca90a7c4451076c6

Editor’s note: This blog post was researched, written, edited and published on an OpenIndiana Workstation.

https://news.illumos.am/2024w08/

#bhyve #FreeBSD #FreeBSDJail #hypervisor #Intel #iPXE #NVIDIA #OfficeHours #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #OpenZFS #Python #SmartOS #Tailscale #TritonDataCenter #ZFS #zones