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

[Dan McDonald]

Hello!

700+ cherrypicked commits later, and at least I haven't obviously regressed lipkg/ipkg zones.  :)

This github repo:

	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:

- 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