New Image Tools for SmartOS – “Starting with our newer machine images we’ve introduced a few customer specific utilities to help you in the SmartOS world: Quickbackup, Smtools, and Dtracetools. These are packages updated frequently in which anyone can install and use immediately to reap the benefits and make your life easier.” - Derek Crudgington, Joyent [...]
Tag Archives: KVM
SmartOS News: Sept 21, 2012
September 21, 2012 – 2:46 pm
Getting IPv6 working with SmartOS and KVM Joyent on Node.js (and SmartOS): Node.js Lab at DataWeek – speakers include Bryan Cantrill, Isaac Schlueter, Dave Pacheco, and Jason Hoffman Configuration Management on SmartOS – Ben Rockwood has been adding to the SmartOS wiki.
Video: illumos Key Technologies
May 7, 2012 – 8:31 am
This is just a snippet from SVLUG‘s Comparative Operating Systems Discussion panel on current open source Unix systems, in which Bryan Cantrill was a speaker, along with Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing representing Linux, Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at IxSystems, Inc. for FreeBSD, and Charles Forsyth, Technical Director and Co-Founder at Vita Nuova for [...]
SmartOS VM Guest Tools
March 26, 2012 – 5:42 pm
Scripts and drivers to create virtualized machine images in SmartOS. Installing You can run ‘./bin/build-image’ which will create an ISO, ZIP and TAR archives for the tools. The tools include both the Windows and Linux tools. The reason they are created this way is so you can use an ISO to load Windows drivers during [...]
SmartOS KVM Screencast Demo
March 1, 2012 – 12:47 pm
Trentster gives us: A screencast of using SmartOS covering: -Creating a new KVM Virtual Machine -Creating and using JSON payloads -Installing OS from ISO in ZFS zone -Retrieving vnc settings and connecting to VNC console -FreeBSD 9 installation -Cloning a New VM from an existing VM base zone image -Deploying multiple new VM’s from clone [...]
Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor
January 24, 2012 – 9:08 pm
Robert Mustacchi’s talk at SCALE 10x. An excellent introduction to what SmartOS is and why it’s better. Want to learn more? Come meet Robert at the Joyent Cloud Meetup/Office Hours Jan 31. 5-7 pm. Beer and pizza provided! 60 minutes (playlist of 5 parts) slides
Why SmartOS? KVM, DTrace, Zones and More
November 26, 2011 – 3:42 pm
On August 15th of this year, Joyent announced that it hadported KVM to its operating system, SmartOS, and wasopen sourcing the entire OS. You might be wondering why the world needs another operating system, and what’s so great about this one. Well, let me explain… (read the rest on Joyeur)
Video: Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS
September 23, 2011 – 11:11 am
Joyent VP of Engineering Bryan Cantrill speaks at the KVM Forum, Aug 15, 2011. Slides
New OpenIndiana Coming, with KVM
September 12, 2011 – 11:34 am
Our friends over at OpenIndiana are just two days away from a new release, built on Illumos and featuring our KVM goodness. Details on Alasdair’s blog - we’re looking forward to this!
Slides for Bryan's KVM Forum Talk
August 15, 2011 – 10:35 am
On Monday, August 15th, Joyent VP of Engineering Bryan Cantrill will speak on “Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS” at KVM Forum 2011 (Vancouver). His slides are available here.