[OmniOS-discuss] Omios, hvm and AWS

[Al Slater]

Thank you, that clarified my understanding.

Al

On 27/07/17 22:47, PÁSZTOR György wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "Al Slater" <al.slater at scluk.com> írta 2017-07-27 12:17-kor:
>> So, I thought I would try to produce my own AMI with hvm virtualization.
>>
>> I am looking to use omniosce r151022, is this likely to work at all?
> 
> I haven't tryed to upgrade my r151022 with the ce updates, but I'm pretty
> sure that it must work.
> 
>> I have read https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Ec2Ami, does anyone know
>> how that procedure would be amended to cater for loader/hvm instead of
>> pv-grub?
> 
> If you use hvm, then there is no need for an extra loader. Just install
> omnios, as you would onto the "virtual" hdd.
> However, I never tried amazon's env. I experimenting with omnios on my home
> nas. (See my mail two days ago)
> 
> The only drawback what I found: if the xen hypervisor is >=4.6 (or >4.5.1 I
> don't know yet), then the pv network driver won't work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gyu
> 



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