Additional packages on OviOS

[Marcin Grinberg]

Hi Guys,

My first post on the group, so wanted to say Hi to everyone before I jump to the question/request for advice.

Little bit of background:

I'm planning a migration from FreeNAS over to OviOS. As my setup is virtualized I need to be able to automatically shut down guest OS via ACPI call or guest-agent in case of power failure UPS will send a signal to host to shut down. I want to avoid forcibly stopping guest system. 
I understand that in a server room dropping accidental ACPI signals might be beneficial, but for my use case handling them or a qemu-guest integration would be desirable.

I've seen in the docs that in order to install additional package you should compile it. I get it and actually was trying last week to compile qemu-guest-agent and got int some dependency issues. and dropped for now. Tried to compile acpid as this would also solve the issue, but stopped at ./configure. In both cases I would need to compile additional dependencies to get it working. Definitely achievable, but I was wondering if there is a pacman repo that I could just use to install what I need and get an easy way out of dependency hell ;).

If there is a better way of doing it?

Thanks in advance for any responses,
Marcin

[OviOS]

Hi Marcin

thanks for your message.

If you want to, you can use pacman packages with OviOS Linux, but you might get into a dependencies hell :) because OviOS is only installed with the basic packages to build a storage OS. 

but we can build for you the required packages.

Shoot us an email at o...@ovios.org with what you need, happy to help :)