11:55:27 hey there, we're having an Illumos centric weekend at my local UNIX Social Club (https://usc.silentio.us/) 11:56:37 however, we just realized that the OmniOS handbook that we bookmarked was pretty much empty, lol 11:57:10 any suggestion of alternative resources for a bunch of people willing to give OmniOS (or any Illumos distribution for that matter)a try? 11:58:11 the goal is to setup a hypervisor so SmartOS sounded like a good plan, but so far, we have not succeeded in having the installer boot our DELL PowerEdge T440 11:58:37 OmniOS installation on our HP MicroServer gen10 was a breeze, however, so we're starting with that 12:48:16 one thing could be to post questions on #omnios or here on the channel and see if anyone is online and can help. especially when hitting a thing that is doen on Illumos/Omnios just different then elsewhere. 12:51:25 Ah I misread SmartOS for OmniOS which as well can virtualize and has a nice tool (see:) zadm. And it is a more "Normal" OS with lots of packages. 12:55:16 and here is a blog article about the quite usual install over "serial console" in the Illumos/Solaris world. https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/remotely-install-omnios-on-a-dell-r620/ 15:57:06 thanks for the links, tomww 15:57:21 we were considering playing with SmartOS, but fell back to OmniOS for the time being 15:57:59 the idea is to become more familiar with the Solaris way of doing things first and foremost, we can always settle for refined solutions later on when we've played around a bunch 16:02:18 did you also consider plain OpenIndiana? 16:02:42 (FYI, SmartOS just works most of the time, it may be a bit picky about storage controllers and similar) 16:08:51 we did not, since we're thinking about having a collective hypervisor mostly, and OpenIndiana mostly seems to be advertized as a desktop Illumos solution? 16:16:02 openindiana is server and desktop, right. ok, then your smartos vs. omnios choice seems legit.