[OmniOS-discuss] Plex on LX zone howto

[Gary Gendel]

On 04/12/2017 12:16 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>> On Apr 12, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's been years since I played with zones (Solaris 10 Sparc ~build 187) so I've forgotten everything I learned.
>>
>> I'd like to set up a Plex media server in an LX zone on Omnios 151020 .  Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the right sequence of steps to create the LX zone and linux kernel in preparation for installing Plex.  I'm not even sure which Linux kernel would be the least problematic (I chose debian 8).
>>
>> Should I wait for 151022 (assuming it won't be too far off)?
> You will get improvements in r151022, but nothing that'll substantially improve the bringup.
>
> Two paths:
>
> 1.) Read here: https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/LXZones
>
> 2.) If #1 is still too complicated, Oetiker & Partner have this tool:  http://www.lxadm.org/
>
> Dan
>
Thanks to everyone that replied.  Using lxadm I was able to get plex running under centos-7 in a handful of minutes.  I'll keep in mind that auto-scanning and other options don't work (yet).

Gary


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