Release date: Sept 14, 2011
OpenIndiana oi_151a was released on 14th September 2011, exactly one year after our first release, oi_147! Our latest build brings a wide variety of enhancements, including being our first build based on Illumos.
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If you are currently running OpenSolaris, please see Upgrading from OpenSolaris. If you are currently running OpenIndiana, please see Upgrading OpenIndiana.
For information on installing, please see Installing OpenIndiana
ISO images and Torrents are available from:
Also please see our mirror sites at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Mirrors
OpenIndiana oi_151a is based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes:
OpenIndiana oi_151a now includes KVM, the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine, as a basic virtualization solution along with the QEMU package! This KVM port includes virtualization extensions for Intel VT. Using KVM, a user or system administrator can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified x86_64-based operating system images for Linux, BSD, or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.
For information on using KVM, please see 7.3 KVM
A wide variety of software is now available through the Spec Files Extra repository, OI-Userland, and third-party community package management systems.
Community packages contributed and ported by other package maintainers/ISVs:
Here is a list of known issues that are still outstanding:
See https://www.illumos.org/projects/openindiana/issues for more known issues and detailed information
Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve the quality of future releases. Please report bugs through the provided bugtracker system:
If you want to help out with bugs, the OpenIndiana bug team is always looking for help.
As a community maintained distribution, we depend on community members getting involved. There are a wide variety of ways you can help us, from blogging and talking about OpenIndiana, adding content to our wiki, through to helping us developing the operating system.
If you would like to get involved, the quickest way is to jump on IRC and talk to our developers directly.
You can find out more about the OpenIndiana distribution project, please see:
Note: oi_151a Release Notes originally written by Ken Mays (kmays). Please contact for any major corrections or changes.
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