install gparted inside smartos Centos VM

Well. I'm not so virtuous to use parted inside a Centos VM to expand the filesystem.
By default the Centos Linux image dataset from SmartOS is large 10GB.
You can add another disk (it will be mounted in /data).
Or you can grow the ZFS volume related to disk0.

So, from the global zone grow the volume related to the Linux VM:

zfs set volsize=20G zones/<UUID>-disk0

I don't know, maybe you must stop the VM and start it again.

Now, from inside the VM, yes, you must install various rpms.
Firts of all the EPEL repository.

rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt
rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum install gparted
yum install xauth
yum install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts.noarch

Now you can connect to the VM via ssh with the -X option (or -Y) and run gparted

Openindiana: "tree connect failed: syserr = No such file or directory"

I was trying to mount a CIFS (Samba) share from an Openindiana host,
 
-bash-4.0# mount -F smbfs //user:password@networkserver.my.domain/share /mnt/samba

I got this error

mount: //networkserver.my.domain/share: tree connect failed: syserr = No such file or directory

To solve this, I had to restart the samba client service.

svcadm restart svc:/network/smb/client:default

Fifo: vm reported as "provisioning", but it is false

Fifo: https://project-fifo.net

Why a VM status is reported as "Provisioning (Running)" even if it is already provisioned, and it is (only) running?

<killfill> that's because fifo knows if a vm is provisioning if the file 'provisioning' exists.
<killfill> Probably when creating the VM, the tools didn't wipe that file
<killfill> or maybe because you created it manually.. :P
<killfill> it's in /zones/:uuid/root/svc/ something like that.
<killfill> /zones/<uuid>/root/var/svc/provisioning

So, rm /zones/<uuid>/root/var/svc/provisioning
Et voilà.

SmartOS: add (modify) the gateway to a zone

I often forget to add the gateway to a new created zone.

So, get the nic MAC address.

vmadm get zone-uuid | json -a nics.0.mac

52:d9:d7:ab:c7:56

Create a file, like /var/tmp/updategw.json

{
   "update_nics": [
      {
         "mac": "52:d9:d7:ab:c7:56",
         "gateway": "192.168.0.1"
      }
   ]
}

Stop the zone, then issue an update.

vmadm update zone-uuid < /var/tmp/updategw.json

Verify.

vmadm get <zone-uuid> | json -a nics.0

Start the zone.

cisco vpn client and windows 8

So, the Cisco VPN client is not compatible with Windows 8. At least you must change various registry keys (I don't know).

A valid alternative is Shrew Soft VPNCLIENT

https://www.shrew.net/download/vpn

The Standard installation is free to use even for commercial use.

Map sd names to Solaris disk names

Map sd names to Solaris (SmartOS, Openindiana) disk names

paste -d= <(iostat -x | awk 'NR>2{print $1}') <(iostat -nx | awk 'NR>2{print "/dev/dsk/"$11}')

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/555427/map-sd-sdd-names-to-solaris-disk-names

watchman under SmartOS

"A file watching service.
Purpose
Watchman exists to watch files and record when they actually change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change."
https://github.com/facebook/watchman

You can find pkgsrc definitions, useful to build the package under SmartOS (pkgsrc on SmartOS - zone creation and basic builds) and a binary package to be installed using pkg_add

pkg_add watchman-2.9.1nb2.tgz

This is the link: https://github.com/alcir/watchman-pkgsrc