Running AIX on QEMU on Linux on Windows, your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed 1.3 is available, LLDB: CPU register inspection support extension, V7 Unix programs often not written as expected, and more.
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Running AiX on QEMU on Linux on Windows


YES it’s real!
I’m using the Linux subsystem on Windows, as it’s easier to build this Qemu tree from source. I’m using Debian, but these steps will work on other systems that use Debian as a base.
first thing first, you need to get your system with the needed pre-requisites to compile
Great with those in place, now clone Artyom Tarasenko’s source repository
Since the frame buffer apparently isn’t quite working just yet, I configure for something more like a text mode build.
Now for me, GCC 7 didn’t build the source cleanly. I had to make a change to the file config-host.mak and remove all references to -Werror. Also I removed the sound hooks, as we won’t need them.
Now you can build Qemu.
Okay, all being well you now have a Qemu. Now following the steps from Artyom Tarasenko’s blog post, we can get started on the install!



See article for rest of walkthrough.



Take Command of Your NAS Fleet with TrueCommand


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The public Beta of TrueCommand is available for download now. TrueCommand can be used with small iXsystems NAS fleets for free. Licenses can be purchased for large-scale deployments and enterprise support.
TrueCommand expands on the ease of use and power of TrueNAS and FreeNAS systems with multi-system management and reporting.



News Roundup

Unleashed 1.3 Released


This is the fourth release of Unleashed - an operating system fork of illumos. For more information about Unleashed itself and the download links, see our website.
As one might expect, this release removes a few things.
The most notable being the removal of ksh93 along with all its libs.
As far as libc interfaces are concerned, a number of non-standard functions were removed. In general, they have been replaced by the standards-compliant versions. (getgrentr, fgetgrentr, getgrgidr, getgrnamr, ttynamer, getloginr, shmdt, sigwait, gethostname, putmsg, putpmsg, and getaddrinfo)
Additionally, wordexp and wordfree have been removed from libc. Even though they are technically required by POSIX, software doesn't seem to use them. Because of the fragile implementation (shelling out), we took the OpenBSD approach and just removed them.
The default compilation environment now includes XOPENSOURCE=700 and EXTENSIONS. Additionally, all applications now use 64-bit file offsets, making use of LARGEFILESOURCE, LARGEFILE64SOURCE, and FILEOFFSET_BITS unnecessary.
Last but not least, nightly.sh is no more. In short, to build one simply runs 'make'. (See README for detailed build instructions.)



Why Unleashed



Why did we decide to fork illumos? After all, there are already many illumos distributions available to choose from. We felt we could do better than any of them by taking a more aggressive stance toward compatibility and reducing cruft from code and community interactions alike.



LLDB: extending CPU register inspection support


Upstream describes LLDB as a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built on top of LLVM/Clang toolchain, and features great integration with it. At the moment, it primarily supports debugging C, C++ and ObjC code, and there is interest in extending it to more languages.
In February, I have started working on LLDB, as contracted by the NetBSD Foundation. So far I