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I did some work on AIX once. The thing that I remember is that I was granted some kind of zone/slice or wathever they call for compartmentalization. It didn't e

I did some work on AIX once. The thing that I remember is that I was granted some kind of zone/slice or wathever they call for compartmentalization. It didn't even had SSH so I had to use telnet. The guy I was supposed to prepare the system for could only install Oracle from some crappy java UI wizard so I had to request the sysadmin to install a lot of Linux libraries and programs to enable X11 over SSH.

whatusername 1y ago
From memory there was LPAR "Logical Partitions" - which were effectively like a VM. and there was WPAR "Workload Partitions" - which had a shared OS and were more like a container. I had some "interesting" experiences getting stuff to work on WPAR's.
- tecleandor 1y ago
  IIRC, WPARs could be just for one process, or full OS (but sharing the resources of one AIX instance, I guess that running on an LPAR or directly in the hardware). But yeah, bit more like a container.
  - irusensei 1y ago
    Then it was probably an LPAR. Are those reliant on hardware magic or just something like cgroups?
    - sillywalk 1y ago
      LPARs use hardware virtualization. The PowerVM hypervisor (PHYP) is in firmware.
Telemakhos 1y ago
I first learned on an AIX box in college; Cygwin/X gave me X11 access and worked perfectly, although I couldn’t tell you whether that used telnet or ssh. Back then I used telnet a lot without any regard for security.
Rediscover 1y ago
> crappy java UI wizard Nicely put (oof!). I believe it also enforced a minimal color depth, which none of our machines could directly support on their own hardware, forcing the use of remote X11 displays.
- avhception 1y ago
  Sounds painful. Why is there no CLI installer? Fortunately, I never had to deal with Oracle.
_DeadFred_ 1y ago
Yes we first had a world of telnet and networks that allowed anyone who pierced them with a transceiver to be part of it (thicknet). It was a simpler/kinder/less malicious world than todays. X Windows ran great on AIX before Linux was a thing. IBM was involved with its's inception (Project Athena). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5

whatusername 1y ago

From memory there was LPAR "Logical Partitions" - which were effectively like a VM. and there was WPAR "Workload Partitions" - which had a shared OS and were more like a container. I had some "interesting" experiences getting stuff to work on WPAR's.

tecleandor 1y ago
IIRC, WPARs could be just for one process, or full OS (but sharing the resources of one AIX instance, I guess that running on an LPAR or directly in the hardware). But yeah, bit more like a container.
- irusensei 1y ago
  Then it was probably an LPAR. Are those reliant on hardware magic or just something like cgroups?
  - sillywalk 1y ago
    LPARs use hardware virtualization. The PowerVM hypervisor (PHYP) is in firmware.

Telemakhos 1y ago

I first learned on an AIX box in college; Cygwin/X gave me X11 access and worked perfectly, although I couldn’t tell you whether that used telnet or ssh. Back then I used telnet a lot without any regard for security.

Rediscover 1y ago

> crappy java UI wizard Nicely put (oof!). I believe it also enforced a minimal color depth, which none of our machines could directly support on their own hardware, forcing the use of remote X11 displays.

avhception 1y ago
Sounds painful. Why is there no CLI installer? Fortunately, I never had to deal with Oracle.

_DeadFred_ 1y ago

Yes we first had a world of telnet and networks that allowed anyone who pierced them with a transceiver to be part of it (thicknet). It was a simpler/kinder/less malicious world than todays. X Windows ran great on AIX before Linux was a thing. IBM was involved with its's inception (Project Athena). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5