[OmniOS-discuss] install OmniOS into a new boot environment

[Jim Klimov]

13 ноября 2015 г. 21:36:49 CET, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> пишет:
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>> On Nov 13, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
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>> Hi.
>> 
>> I am migrating a couple of machines from OI to OmniOS.
>> 
>> Is it possible to install omnios into a new boot environment so I can
>keep both the install of OI and then boot between them?
>
>Wow.  I don't know.  It's *theoretically possible* but I think you'd
>have to install OmniOS on a VM, zfs snapshot-and-send the
>rpool/ROOT/<be> to the OI box, and manually construct an OmniOS BE
>around that received ZFS snapshot, including adding GRUB entries.
>
>Haven't tried it myself.
>
>Dan
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That's roughly what I did when migrating a machine from SXCE to OI, I think I left some breadcrumbs on mailing lists and/or wiki to keep note of important files etc. that required attention ;)

Hopefully, with software as close as OmniOS and OI (especially if you use bleeding edges of both projects) there will be much less hassle with system files and services. On another hand, note that OmniOS repos (even the additional ones) ship much less userland software than OI, so you'd probably have to install pkgsrc and semi-manually upgrade it when new releases come out.

BTW, see if beadm create'ing an empty BE, pkg -R adding omnios publishers into it, and installing 'entire' would do some magic? Also, IIRC there are zfs.bz2 images of OmniOS for caiman wnat are these? Pre-fabricated installations?

Jim
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