[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS as a kvm guest

Eric Sproul esproul at omniti.com
Wed Mar 27 13:03:47 EDT 2013


I don't know specifics about the virtio stuff.  You could hit Google
with that question and/or #illumos on IRC.  Whatever illumos
integrates with respect to virt* will eventually end up in OmniOS.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:50 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:
>> Yes, OmniOS can run as a KVM guest.  There is limited virtio support
>> (vioblk only), and only in the unstable release at this time.  It
>> integrated too late for the current stable release to pick it up, but
>> it will be included in the next stable due out next month.
>>
>> virtio-net support is being worked on by the illumos community, but
>> has not yet integrated.
>>
>> Points of interest:
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3644
>> http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/int0dh/virtio-net/
>>
>
> Thanks Eric, but memory balloon driver will be integrated??


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