hirigaray it's a really an amazing OS. Install a more general purpose one, like OmniOS, and start playing with it

hirigaray I also started "illumos Weekly News", here's the first article! news.illumos.am/2024w07

Have fun with your shitware.

rmustacc: it looks like we don't hook into enhanced MCA support on xeons or acpi's apei.. do you know if that was a deliberate (doesn't buy much) or more 'no one's had time to do it?'

APEI is more of a no one was bothered.

But I might need a more specific pointer on the 'enhanced MCA' bit.

A lot of it also is a tradeoff between firmware first and not.

Do you have a pointer to something in the EDS or some other doc for context on the enhanced MCA stuff?

I know we're not properly leveraging AMD MCA-X right now, wihch is on a queue somewhere.

Ah, so it's yet another SMI path that maybe means you can't do useful stuff with it.

I mean, that's why I wrote the imc driver instead.

So I wouldn't use enhanced MCA for memory PFA personally.

But especially after the incidents I dealt with at Joyent I guess I don't trust firmware first.

yeah, it's crappy, but i guess is it worse than not utilizing it.. i mean it seems like aside from the oxide stuff, your choices are to use it or do nothing since it seems like every vendor has gone that route

Can I somehow tell the kernel to try and allocate less memory at boot?

I rebooted one of my linodes on omnios-lts and it now stack traces that it cna't allocate memory

how much ram did you gave to the vm?

1G

We might've found a bug with `zoneadm -z zone1 clone -m copy zone0`

here's the output from my terminal

Here's the output

the line "/usr/lib/brand/ipkg/clone: -m: unknown option" makes me sad

The perils of having the zoneadm command and the brand scripts it calls being independently developed

a few questions about config cpuid: 1.) when need to configure cpuid? 2.) how to config the cpuid, any detailed document? there is a example on “Configuring cpuid” section on github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis/tree/master/bin/propolis-standalone , a big thanks for the answer

does SmartOS support config cpuid? or propolis supports it only, thanks again.

SmartOS exposes this through the 'cpu_type' property in vmadm.

ptribble indeed. any docs on how to fix this? Seems like a simple fix, but I cannot get my head around it. I think the `-m` flag needs some love, we can have `-m deep` for zfs send/recv, as an example.

rmustacc: thanks for the information,

antranigv the brand scripts, under /usr/lib/brand, are generally just shell scripts that aren't too hard to follow

ptribble thank you! I was looking for that. I found /etc/brand, but it was pretty much empty-ish

But the different distributions generally have their own completely independent versions

[illumos-gate] 16308 dis mishandles EVEX.V' -- Robert Mustacchi <rm⊙fo>

antranigv: thank you

Now that we are actually more widely using LXC for my day job, may I sing in harmony with all those who have expressed frustration with it.

(only about half our workload seems to be able to run under unprivileged containers without problems)

copec what did you use before?

All libvirt controlled qemu/kvm, everything we run managed via saltstack. I started using OpenSolaris when 10 came out, and then illumos at home, but alwasy been debian/ubuntu for day job

antranigv ^

copec any way to convince dayjob to move to illumos? :))

Other than running the Docker daemon and some GPU workload, I'm having a hard time choosing Linux these days.

I've been trying to!