Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hot plugging sata drives?

2011-06-15 Thread Blake Irvin
I wish I had known about this 3 years ago :) On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:45 PM, Cyril Plisko wrote: > If you want the cfgadm configure magic to be > automatic add this to your /etc/system: > > set sata:sata_auto_online=1 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing li

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hot plugging sata drives?

2011-06-15 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Sorry if this is a silly question - google is not turning up anything > useful.  My cougar point sata controller supports hotplug, so I enabled it > for all 6 ports.  I decided it would be nice to test this :)  So I unplug > one of the d

[OpenIndiana-discuss] hot plugging sata drives?

2011-06-15 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Sorry if this is a silly question - google is not turning up anything useful. My cougar point sata controller supports hotplug, so I enabled it for all 6 ports. I decided it would be nice to test this :) So I unplug one of the drives and see the pool go degraded. I plug it back in, and after so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-15 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 03:54 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox 3.x, then I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth Windows Server guests. With a lot of sadness I had to rely on VMWare

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

2011-06-15 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I'm confused. I use 'sudo -i' exclusively, and whenever I get in, I have valid command history. -Original Message- From: David Brodbeck [mailto:bro...@uw.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:49 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and act

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

2011-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On a boxes where I, or one or two others I know and trust, are the only > admin(s), I find sudo a complete pita and never use it. When I want > root it's because I need to get something done and sudo just gets in my > way and adds unnecessa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Stapleton
When I need a root terminal, I tend to simply: $sudo sh In a Solaris only environment I advise RBAC , but in a mixed Unix/Linux world, sudo makes more sense. With RBAC and root being a Role, we should "su - " to assume the root role. Mike On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 14:24 -0700, Gregory Youngbloo

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA Optimus compatibility?

2011-06-15 Thread Enrico
Hello, i'm considering buying a laptop with NVIDIA gpu since is the only officially supported on Openindiana. I've found many laptops that would be great for me (price under 900€, hd display, i3 intel proc.) but all of them have NVIDIA Optimus technology that can control the power consumption on W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-15 Thread Gregory Youngblood
On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:54 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hello, > a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox > 3.x, then > I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth > Windows Server guests. > With a lot of sadness I had to rely on VM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel PRO/1000 CT (82574L) and maximum MTU on oi_151

2011-06-15 Thread Marco van Lienen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:34:29AM +0200, you (Volker A. Brandt) sent the following to [openindiana-discuss] : > Marco van Lienen writes: > > solarisexpress% pfexec ifconfig e1000g0 mtu 9000 > > ifconfig: setifmtu: SIOCSLIFMTU: e1000g0: Invalid argument > > > > Is there something I'm missing i.e.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-15 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello, a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox 3.x, then I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth Windows Server guests. With a lot of sadness I had to rely on VMWare for production systems, with the drawback that standalone VMW

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

2011-06-15 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Thanx for the explanation :) I decided to make my usual user a Primary Administrator, and I can pfexec anything ;) -- Da: Gregory Youngblood A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Data: 14 giugno 2011 23.24.10 CEST Oggetto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel PRO/1000 CT (82574L) and maximum MTU on oi_151

2011-06-15 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Marco van Lienen writes: > solarisexpress% pfexec ifconfig e1000g0 mtu 9000 > ifconfig: setifmtu: SIOCSLIFMTU: e1000g0: Invalid argument > > Is there something I'm missing i.e. is there something else I need to do to > enable jumboframes on this nic? Look at /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf -- I don't ha

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel PRO/1000 CT (82574L) and maximum MTU on oi_151

2011-06-15 Thread Marco van Lienen
I just got an Intel PRO/1000 CT pci-e nic (82574L) and am running oi_151. This nic is handled by the e1000g(7D) driver. e1000g(7D) on an s11e box (oi_151 still doesn't have this and other manpages yet) lists this nic is capable of a maximum MTU of 9216 (i reckon the s11e driver is identical to th