Hello,
I have been a _long_ time user of OpenSolaris, then OI, now stuck on oi
151a8 for some time as pkg updates stopped working after that release -
some careless dependancy mess just broke it and it was too hard to sort out.
Anyway ... I use it to run Virtualbox (GUI) and some smb/nfs shares on
my home LAN, and the box is getting a little old. So I'm due to update
the hardware soon. VB isn't perfect on this platform, I get network
hangs every random interval (so I reboot the server every night to work
around this - urgh ...), but it works and does what I want.
What's the recommendation of the list with regards to updating this to a
new distribution? Hipster? Or one of the others, nexenta etc? All I
want is the Virtualbox GUI, Virtualbox and SMB/NFS shares on top of ZFS.
I don't want to use xen or any of the other virtualisers out there at
the moment, I am happy and comfortable with VB and want to stick with
it. It mostly "just works" and my scripts are written around it. I am
currently running an Intel i5 CPU with 32GB of RAM and a RAIDZ and
mirror (mirror for root, RZ for a big fileshare).
It will be a mostly implement-and-rust box, I will update the OS if it's
convenient (as OS/OI was until the pkg updates broke at 151aX), but will
mostly leave it alone.
thanks!
Carl
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