Musings and posts from Luqman.
I was setting up some automation to build Windows images pre-loaded with some drivers and software (a story for another day). I had already gotten it working with QEMU under KVM on Linux but wanted to port it to propolis on our illumos distro, Helios. I figured it should be mostly straightforward; maybe a couple different flags or utilities to futz around with the disk images and mount them. Which…
Emboldened with the newly landed VNC support , we decided to give booting Windows in Propolis a go. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work right away. Provisioning Creating a Windows VM The VNC server built-in to Propolis is currently only one-way: it will show you the guest framebuffer but doesn't relay any input from a client (e.g. mouse or keyboard) back to the guest. This poses a…
Originally posted as a gist . $ cargo build --example basic --features usdt-probes [...snip...] error: could not compile `dropshot` Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: `rustc [...snip...]` (signal: 11, SIGSEGV: invalid memory reference) Achievement unlocked: rustc segfault. Stack trace fffffc7fce3fcbc0…