I want to deal with flash, SSD and SATA drives connected to a ThinkPad A485 using its USB ports. This is my cheatsheet based on Managing USB Mass Storage Devices on Oracle Solaris 11.2 .Continue reading...
The bhyve hypervisor has been ported to Illumos and provides an altervative to KVM. SmartOS created an OpenBSD image but it’s quite old. I don’t know (yet) how to upgrade or make more up-to-date images. But I could manage to run OpenBSD 7.4 on OmniOS.Continue reading...
Because Apple does not allow Floccus to manage the bookmarks on Safari for iOS and iPadOS, I have no straight forward access to my few regular bookmarks. Sure, I could simply register them once for all. But building an HTML/CSS webpage to display them is more fun.Continue reading...
OmniOS / Illumos provides a native way to expose data stored on ZFS using the SMB / CIFS protocol. Furthemore, using zones limits the attack surface of a server ; or a least, the impact of a compromised service.
Long story short: I replaced my UFS+Samba shares with ZFS+Solarish.Continue reading...
Doing some tidying in my network, computers and VPS collection, I went looking for a piece of software that could be used :
at home, as a file server, a backup server and a VM lab. at colloc, as an hypervisor. After looking at SmartOS , I tried OmniOS . It is also based on Illumos . The notes go here.Continue reading...