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SmartOS is a free and open-source SVR4 hypervisor based on the UNIX operating system that combines OpenSolaris technology with bhyve and KVM virtualization.[2] Its core kernel contributes to the illumos project.[3] It features several technologies: Crossbow, DTrace, bhyve, KVM, ZFS, and Zones.[4][5] Unlike other illumos distributions, SmartOS employs NetBSD pkgsrc package management.[6][7] SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances.[8] It was originally developed for and by Joyent, who announced in April 2022 that they had sold their business supporting and developing of Triton Datacenter and SmartOS to MNX Solutions.[9] It is open-source and free for anyone to use.
SmartOS banner and console login | |
| Developer | MNX Solutions |
|---|---|
| Written in | C |
| OS family | Unix (SysV) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source, on GitHub[1] |
| Repository | |
| Available in | English |
| Package manager | pkgsrc |
| Platforms | x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| License | CDDL-1.0 |
| Official website | smartos |
SmartOS is an in-memory operating system and boots directly into random-access memory. It supports various boot mechanisms such as booting from hard drive, USB thumbdrive, ISO Image, or over the network via PXE boot. One of the many benefits of employing this boot mechanism is that operating system upgrades are trivial, simply requiring a reboot from a newer SmartOS image version.[10]
SmartOS follows a strict local node storage architecture. This means that virtual machines are stored locally on each node and do not boot over the network from a central SAN or NAS. This helps ensure that network latency issues are eliminated as well as to preserve node independence. Multi-node SmartOS clouds can be managed via the open-source[11] MNX Triton DataCenter[12] (formerly known as SmartDataCenter[13]) cloud orchestration suite or via the Project Fifo[14] Open Source SmartOS Cloud management platform built on Erlang.
In 2012, Joyent and MongoDB Inc. (formerly 10gen) partnered to improve the scalability of SmartOS.[15]
SmartOS includes a number of virtualization technologies, including:
Native zones provide SmartOS applications isolation environment, based on Solaris Containers, an OS-level virtualization, without the overhead of hardware-emulating HVM virtual machines.
LX-branded zones provide the Linux system call interface, enabling the execution of Linux application binaries without recompiling them for SmartOS. This facility is available in several illumos distributions, including SmartOS and OmniOS.
KVM and QEMU were ported to SmartOS in 2011, and can be used on Intel CPUs with VMX and EPT support.
The Bhyve hypervisor from FreeBSD was ported to SmartOS. This is the preferred virtualization when required to use HVM for Windows or Linux guests.
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