[OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

[Ian Collins]

Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> Maybe I am demonstrating my ignorance here, but another might be: a decent
> GUI.  This is one of the places where kvm falls down badly, IMO.  You seem
> have have three choices:
>
> 1. Go the CLI route.
>
> 2. Install a distro with a GUI, and use whatever builtin tools support the
> virtualization environment.
>
> 3. Install a distro with some kind of web-based GUI.  Last time I looked
> (a year or so ago), this category was filled with options that were either
> very heavyweight for a small config (nebula, openstack, etc...), were not
> under active development, or had various issues that made me walk away
> quickly (one in particular used fedora as the distro - seriously???)
> proxmox is kvm-based with a decent web gui but does have some oddities and
> quirks I did not like (I used it for a couple of years before punting...)

Project FiFo has quite a bit of traction on SmartOS:

https://project-fifo.net/display/PF/Project+FiFo+Home

-- 
Ian.