[OmniOS-discuss] Introducing io-lx -- an attempt to port LX Zones to OmniOS

[wonko at 4amlunch.net]

YOU ARE MY HERO

I wish you the best of luck and will do (what little) I can to help. I've wanted this for a while.

-brian

> On Mar 7, 2016, at 21:47, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> 700+ cherrypicked commits later, and at least I haven't obviously regressed lipkg/ipkg zones.  :)
> 
> This github repo:
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>    https://github.com/danmcd/io-lx-public/
> 
> is the beginning of my attempt to port LX zones over to OmniOS.  I KNOW there's a lot more work to be done, but I wanted to make sure this repo is viewable by the public so:
> 
> 1.) People know about it.
> 
> 2.) People who are interested in helping can do so.
> 
> 3.) People can laugh at all of the mismerges and other flub-ups I'm sure I haven't caught yet.  :)
> 
> 4.) I will be context-switching to OmniOS r151018 ramp-up very soon, and want to checkpoint state.
> 
> I've Bcc:ed the SmartOS (home of LX zones) and the illumos (where I hope this work can be upstreamed at some point) lists.  Discussion on io-lx (Illumos-OmniOS-LX) should take place either on github or on the OmniOS mailing list.
> 
> So far:
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> - I've sidepulled 700+ commits, ending with illumos-joyent's 8443e038ef8eb3ca6a95818d6e90b2a1eb4e9cb6.  There are some more illumos-joyent commits I'll need to bring over, but my cherrypicking script and setups are primed & tested, so I *should* be able to make short work of it.
> 
> - I've smoke-tested a global-only OmniOS boot, and a single-lipkg zone OmniOS boot.  After some mismerge-related consternation, I booted the lipkg zone as well.  A rudimentary ppriv(1) comparison between root shells in global and lipkg zones was part of the smoke test.
> 
> - Any files I didn't know where they went I put into the "brand/lx" package.  The inotify feature, for example, is in there, and perhaps it shouldn't be.
> 
> - If you ONU to io-lx, note that to install brand/lx, you will need to UNINSTALL the "illumos-gate" consolidation package first.  I don't have changes in omnios-build or any of the other repos (like pkg5) yet.  I hope to avoid outside-illumos changes until it's time to figure out the admin model.
> 
> After I'm comfortable with no ipkg/lipkg regressions, I will need to spend some design time figuring out how LX zones will look on OmniOS.  I will not be porting vmadm(1M) over from SmartOS, so I need to think about how LX will fit in with traditional zone tools.  I may discover other problems, but until I start the '018 process, and immediately after '018 ships, I will need to ensure no ipkg/lipkg regressions first and foremost.
> 
> It's not much, but it's a start.
> 
> Thanks for your time & patience,
> Dan
> 
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