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what's smartos?

• dijit 9y ago
  Solaris based hypervisor/container focused OS I tried running it (for mostly ideological reasons) on a couple of Macs I had lying around. Not only was it impossible to run on the Macs due to lack of EFI in SmartOS it was also problematic on other machines I had once I got it to even install. (they have their own answer to libvirt) If I were to run a hypervisor today Id run coreOS or fedora. But there are no bad options if it fits your usecase.
  • Annatar 9y ago
    How does one install something which runs from RAM and requires no installation?
    • dijit 9y ago
      Like so: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Getting+Started+with+SmartOS#GettingStartedwithSmartOS-CreatingaPersistentzpool https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Getting+Started+with+Sm...
      • Annatar 9y ago
        That is not an operating system installation, rather it’s just the ZFS pool storage setup; you could import it later in any OS which has ZFS. There isn’t anything to install with SmartOS and I should know, I build my own version of it. The document even tells you that this is not an installer: “This is not an installer and does not install the live image. The script is simply for data setup. You will still need to boot from live media.” Whoever can read is at a distinct advantage.