SmartOS basically boots off the USB flash stick and runs in RAM, its only purpose acting as a light hypervisor for VMs in zones (either native ones (like FBSD jails) or KVM (which are also run under zones with QEMU being the only process in a zone)) stored on ZFS on persistent storage.
OmniOS is more traditional in a sense it’s meant to be installed on and used as a host (e.g. for a NAS build), while having all the same tech available.
Anyone have info on this in contrast to SmartOS?
SmartOS basically boots off the USB flash stick and runs in RAM, its only purpose acting as a light hypervisor for VMs in zones (either native ones (like FBSD jails) or KVM (which are also run under zones with QEMU being the only process in a zone)) stored on ZFS on persistent storage.
OmniOS is more traditional in a sense it’s meant to be installed on and used as a host (e.g. for a NAS build), while having all the same tech available.