Anyine managed to use Smartos as a desktop OS, e.g. to give graphics hardware to use for an HVM (or maybe zone) and access to USB ports etc. and make machine with SmartOS usable as a desktop, while having SmartOS run other VMs in the backgorund?

I suppose this were easier since it is regular OS, not hypervisor, plus packages geekblood.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/…and-a-desktop-environment-on-omnios

there are ways to do it but they are all incredibly hacky, and there's zero advantage to doing so instead of just using OmniOS

if you want desktop, just get OI?;)

I already know how to make and service that run things on boot. Aside from giving VM access to graphics, audio and USB hardware.. what else..

jperkin, tsoome all great answers. Unfortunately Smartos with desktop Vm sounds most sexy to me

up to you of course:D

One could run both OmniosCE and OI under VM on SmartOS, too. And sooner or later one wouel like to have some hardware accessible to VMs.

Also means, if having SmartOS server, why not also be able to log into graphical console in VM and do something on Desktop

danmcd: do you hit this issue on latest commit when build smartos? pastebin.com/m8jCRD93

what's the most recent commit in your illumos-joyent branch?

i've been building off this commit: 9124e9e3216120fa0945cd22692ae6357a686988 a _lot_ last week

and seemed to be ok

and have you tried doing a 'gmake clean' and then re-doing gmake world?

I suspect the upstream change to stop isaexec-ing some of the crypto bits is probably the most relevant change, but it could be that it might have just exposed a timing bug in the build as well..

@tozhu I'd suggest a rebuild from scratch.

or if bits were left over, it might have also confused make

^^^

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Is it possible to set guest_block_size or customer_metadata in an image manifest?

if not how do I set guest_block_size at provisioning time? I know how to set metadata at provisioning time I just thought it would be nice if it could be done from papi.

jbk, the commit id: 9124e9e3216120fa0945cd22692ae6357a686988

and I have tried ‘gmake clobber’

hrm..

danmcd: github.com/TritonDataCenter/illumos…cmd/cmd-crypto/decrypt/Makefile#L50 -- should that maybe depend on '$(PROG)' ?

tozhu: if you're comfortable trying this, maybe that line in the link (usr/src/cmd/cmd-crypto/decrypt/Makefile line 50)

change '$(ROOTDECLINK):' to '$(ROOTDECLINK): $(PROG)'

... or not

jbk: Thank you very much, I’ll try