will VMware workstation run on omniOS ?

I think that would be a definitive no, and as a proprietary closed source product only VMware can change that

OmniOS (and the other illumos distributions) ought to run fine on VMware, though

I like the way vmware works on linux ... what vm sould I use on OmniOS ?

Probably not a very useful thing to do anyways

There's bhyve, kvm, qemu, and VirtualBox, so there's a variety depending on the problem at hand

I am new to OmniOS and file servers so just trying to get my head around it :)

Hi.

If you're just starting then think of bhyve for a VM, and only diverge from that once you've gained experience

And using a tool like zadm on OmniOS is much easier than using the base zonecfg and zoneadm commands

There are some walkthroughs omnios.org/setup/zadm.html

thanks ..I will look at that

(Although the ascii casts there play havoc with my Pale Moon, which blows up to 15G when trying to view that page.)

where is zadm in relation to smart tools ?

my understanding is that zadm is just a wrapper to make creating zones (VMs) easier. So far I've only created zones the longer way around.

it might help if you gave an idea of hat you're trying to put in a vm

I am too new at file shareing and servers to even answer that question

a friend helped me set up an old dell laptop with two 1 tb drives and I have file sharing working :)

not sure what else I want or can do with it . :)

I've tried a few zones, they can be as simple as just separating out services, or could be more like you are used to as a VM in VMWare.

a couple a sparse zones (where most of the system binaries are exactly the same as the host OS) one is to provide a jump host for external access. The other is running minidlna.

I've tried a couple of lx branded zones to run things designed for Linux that wern't going to be easy to port over to OmniOS.

I don't think I need any of that since I have a desktop running fedora and windows 11 in a vm

the lx zone runs a Linux userspace and the Illumous/OmniOS kernel provides an abstraction for the Linux system calls (most of what I was testing in that worked but there's one bit that's got an interesting issue I've not been ablt to diagnose yet)

You've got bhyve and kvm if you want a VM more like you're used to in VMWare (so you could run windows, linux or anything else you wanted in one of them)

I should just be content with nfs file sharing .

hopefully that gives a bit of an idea of what can be done.

my most recent playing was to setup an lx zone using a Debian 12 userspace to run the Unifi controller to test out an old AP. The benefit of that is I don't need a full VM for it so there's less overhead.

Otherwise I'd have had to setup a full debian VM on my fedora machine to run it with a much higher overhead

unifi zone is using about 1G of disk space and 1

probably not much ram - If I had to create a VM it would probably end up consuming at least 10G of disk space and 2GB ram