A project of me appeared on the frontpage of Slashdot! To tell something about the project; here is the description from the project's README This project allows the virtual machine to access a persistent block device. This means a user can format and partition this device inside it's virtual machine. Because this disk is then read more
OpenIndiana NWAM and Static IP Addresses
30-08-2011 – 19:00
Configuring static IP addresses for NWAM is not quite straightforward in OpenIndiana. After diving in the manuals, I came up with the following configuration: kevin@oi-storage:~$ pfexec nwamcfg nwamcfg> create ncp Thuis nwamcfg:ncp:Thuis> create ncu phys xnf0 Created ncu 'xnf0'. Walking properties ... activation-mode (manual) [manual|prioritized]> enabled (true) [true|false]> priority-group> priority-mode [exclusive|shared|all]> link-mac-addr> link-autopush> link-mtu> nwamcfg:ncp:Thuis:ncu:xnf0> read more
CMake and Openindiana - Headers are difficult
10-07-2011 – 17:45
Because I like to keep my day-to-day global zone clean, I tend to do development in separate zones. Today I found out that if you forget the pkg:/system/header package, strange things can happen. Check this out: kevin@keepassx:~/keepassx-kevinvandervlist$ cmake CMakeLists.txt [...] -- Looking for include files HAVE_GCRYPT_H -- Looking for include files HAVE_GCRYPT_H - not found. read more
Note to self: upgradeing zones
05-07-2011 – 22:15
When upgrading zones; make sure it's halted. When attempting to upgrade a running zone; this will happen: pkg: Unable to clone the current boot environment. After a shutdown, this will allow an upgrade: pfexec pkg -R /zones/name/root Packages to remove: 1 Packages to install: 8 Packages to update: 261 Create boot environment: No Services to read more