johnnyt Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 Inspired by the baremetal backup idea posted here, I made an image of Polisy then tried to run it as a VM in Proxmox. According to @ase in the above thread: Quote As we have discussed for literally days at a time. Both Polisy and Eisy are X86-64 PCs, just like you have sitting on your desk. They are simply smaller format. Polisy OEM was pcengines(https://pcengines.ch) Using an X86-64 host running Proxmox hypervisor I tried a couple of different ways to import the .vhd file I created with Rufus (raw, converted to .qcow2) but it doesn't work. While lots of the early messages seemed to work successfully (couldn't capture them so might have missed an error), here's where things landed in all my attempts so far: Anyone try it? Or anyone familiar with Proxmox running Linux VMs able to suggest how I might need to configure the VM. Here's what got me this far: Like I said it appeared to work until it needed to mount the 'zudi' zfs pool.
firstone Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 I've tried installing fresh FreeBSD and installing IoX on it. it started up and got recognized by admin console but didn't work properly. Like I've tried to set a time zone and it failed with some totally unrelated error. Also, couldn't get PLM to connect because USB drivers aren't there. Note, that none of that will be supported or approved by UDI. The position is - this software should only run on devices that are old by UDI and having mac whitelisted on UDI systems.
johnnyt Posted January 25, 2023 Author Posted January 25, 2023 10 minutes ago, firstone said: Note, that none of that will be supported or approved by UDI. The position is - this software should only run on devices that are old by UDI and having mac whitelisted on UDI systems. Not expecting any support for that, of course, but (getting ahead of myself) would expect to be able to have a different MAC whitelisted as long as I had purchased hardware. Only reason for doing it (if it's even possible and worth the trouble) is for the horsepower I could put behind IoP (once I migrate to it). I have 172 insteon nodes, 152 zwave devices, 990 programs, 5 node servers, with two very chatty ones shoveling lots of data. My 994i is struggling to process stuff and has been for a while. Although by all accounts things should be better once I move to Polisy (IoP), no one can reassure me it will be fast enough CPU-wise to cope because, from what I can tell, I'm the only ISY user with this much stuff. (I'm surprised by that every time I think about it.) Another reason for doing it could be for high availability, which Proxmox can offer in a way that having 2 Polisy's (or 2 eisy's) cannot, although I'm getting WAY ahead of myself even thinking about that.
firstone Posted January 26, 2023 Posted January 26, 2023 I suggest you load your system onto polisy and look at cpu utilization. A lot of these automation systems, etc run on RPi and such. Polisy hardware is pretty powerful, let alone eisy. Unless you're doing some video editing, compiling c++ files or running docker or vm, you'd be pretty hard pressed to overload them. I think most of IoX would put load on io rather than cpu. There is no intensive processing.
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