Remote SSH: Support SunOS

[fr43nk]

Hi,

are there any plans supporting operation systems like SunOS, like the one we use?

SunOS habicht 5.10 Generic_147147-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

Best regards

[raivatshah]

I would love this feature as well!!

[dnyaneshgate]

Is there a workaround to make it work for Solaris OS?

[mccloud-jeff]

+1 for this feature please. I'm working in the financial industry, with many older SunOS machines. This VS Code feature works amazing for our Linux boxes. please implement it for SunOS!

[john-terrell]

Modern Illumos derived OSes (like SmartOS, OmniOS, etc) need support. Illumos is a OpenSolaris derivative. Please support!

[john-terrell]

Modern Illumos derived OSes (like SmartOS, OmniOS, etc) need support. Illumos is a OpenSolaris derivative. Please support!

I can provide build support for these systems if need be. I'm will to do the heavy lifting to make this happen as well.

[kovalexpro]

Working on DilOS (another illumos-based OS) - would be happy to use it as well. Now it rejects because "SunOS" is not supported. I have bash at host (ubuntu/amd64) and guest (dilos/amd64) side. Please, suggest workaround if any.

[jussisallinen]

This would be great addition, I operate fleet of SmartOS (illumos based) hosts and would need to do remote development inside SmartOS Zones.

@chrmarti How big change this would be? Is it just the operating system name or is there actual dependencies other than ie. SSH and bash?

[jussisallinen]

Here's what happens upon connecting to illumos based SmartOS Zone:

[11:41:06.898] remote-ssh@0.56.0
[11:41:06.899] darwin x64
[11:41:06.900] SSH Resolver called for "ssh-remote+pupu.jus.si", attempt 1
[11:41:06.900] SSH Resolver called for host: pupu.jus.si
[11:41:06.900] Setting up SSH remote "pupu.jus.si"
[11:41:06.903] Acquiring local install lock: /var/folders/0s/nzq5b17129503hpj0vhpswj80000gp/T/vscode-remote-ssh-pupu.jus.si-install.lock
[11:41:06.916] Looking for existing server data file at /Users/jussi/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh/vscode-ssh-host-pupu.jus.si-d2e414d9e4239a252d1ab117bd7067f125afd80a-0.56.0/data.json
[11:41:06.917] Using commit id "d2e414d9e4239a252d1ab117bd7067f125afd80a" and quality "stable" for server
[11:41:06.918] Install and start server if needed
[11:41:06.921] Checking ssh with "ssh -V"
[11:41:06.934] > OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3

[11:41:06.937] askpass server listening on /var/folders/0s/nzq5b17129503hpj0vhpswj80000gp/T/vscode-ssh-askpass-fda635fe9bee9427adb80f8ec85ee8b18c3f21e2.sock
[11:41:06.937] Spawning local server with {"ipcHandlePath":"/var/folders/0s/nzq5b17129503hpj0vhpswj80000gp/T/vscode-ssh-askpass-40f6cd66ce3b77077fad264a54babf70111a9985.sock","sshCommand":"ssh","sshArgs":["-v","-T","-D","50146","-o","ConnectTimeout=15","pupu.jus.si"],"dataFilePath":"/Users/jussi/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh/vscode-ssh-host-pupu.jus.si-d2e414d9e4239a252d1ab117bd7067f125afd80a-0.56.0/data.json"}
[11:41:06.938] Local server env: {"DISPLAY":"1","ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE":"1","SSH_ASKPASS":"/Users/jussi/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0/out/local-server/askpass.sh","VSCODE_SSH_ASKPASS_NODE":"/Applications/Visual Studio Code 2.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Renderer).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Renderer)","VSCODE_SSH_ASKPASS_MAIN":"/Users/jussi/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0/out/askpass-main.js","VSCODE_SSH_ASKPASS_HANDLE":"/var/folders/0s/nzq5b17129503hpj0vhpswj80000gp/T/vscode-ssh-askpass-fda635fe9bee9427adb80f8ec85ee8b18c3f21e2.sock"}
[11:41:06.940] Spawned 72081
[11:41:07.030] > local-server> Spawned ssh: 72082
[11:41:07.034] stderr> OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
[11:41:07.279] stderr> debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:OxTayF5/gbNr4f82yxY4HXSOvX2996Ot3rpsYaRj79w
[11:41:07.552] stderr> Authenticated to pupu.jus.si ([136.243.26.39]:22).
[11:41:07.697] > ready: 7e197af14519
[11:41:07.733] > SunOS 5.11 joyent_20201022T155042Z
[11:41:23.946] Terminating local server
[11:41:23.952] Resolver error: Error: Connecting with SSH timed out
    at Function.Timeout (/Users/jussi/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0/out/extension.js:1:94553)
    at Timeout._onTimeout (/Users/jussi/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0/out/extension.js:1:329614)
    at listOnTimeout (internal/timers.js:531:17)
    at processTimers (internal/timers.js:475:7)
[11:41:23.953] Local server exit: 15

[JohnConnett]

This would be very useful on OmniOS and others in the Illumos family.

[chrmarti]

The VS Code Server that is installed on the remote machine runs on Node.js and uses a few native modules that need to be compiled for that remote OS and hardware.

[jussisallinen]

The VS Code Server that is installed on the remote machine runs on Node.js and uses a few native modules that need to be compiled for that remote OS and hardware.

Well that shouldn't be hard given that SmartOS is developed by Joyent: https://www.joyent.com/node-js/support Do you need access to a SmartOS/illumos host for that to happen? I can help with that in case it would speed things up, @john-terrell also offered help.

[chrmarti]

We would set up a build machine to automate it. This is not planned at the moment. (It might not be hard, but automation and maintenance takes time.)

[robertdfrench]

@chrmarti am I correct in thinking that these remote components are not necessarily open source? (That is, we might not be able to help you much anyhow?). Thanks again!

[chrmarti]

@robertdfrench That's correct (see FAQ).

[robertdfrench]

FAQ

doh! Gets me every time... Thanks @chrmarti !

[nwilkens]

+1 .. Was just trying to use this on a SmartOS development instance.

I'd be happy to provide build machines to support this effort @ mnx.io if that helps in any way!

[dancrossnyc]

I, too, would really like to see this.

[Makr91]

This would be Awesome to see come to OmniOS!

[txinto]

+1 Hi, it would be fantastic to develop on SunOS machines from the desktop, without having to mount filesystems, etc.

[mbareck7]

+1, Hi it really would be very nice to have this for OmniOS !

[dyigitpolat]

Need SunOS support. +1.

[dancrossnyc]

Another cry for sympathy here. What would be needed to make this happen?

[dyigitpolat]

3 years, all these people asking for it and still nothing changed.

[Vistuvis]

Just putting in another request for SunOS support.

[bboysnick5]

pls add this.

[chebansviaz]

+1

[aquelemiguel]

+1

[Scripa4]

+1 Will be cool

[shabo20]

+1

[OneThousandEyes]

+1

[VitaliiVasetskyi]

+1

[Dimonv82]

+1

[AgentRelo]

+1

[natriy81]

+1

[dyigitpolat]

+1. If VS Code team needs a SunOS machine to test the remote connection mechanism, I can provide access to one.

[Rudolfowich]

+1

[ntubach]

+1

[sunilaecs]

+1

[abarnes-wmko]

+1

[alvdef]

+1

[EinarJohansson]

+1

[Aaron-Hartwig]

+1

[kurowskitomek]

+1

[internet-diglett]

+1

[arjenroodselaar]

Adding a voice to the chorus.

[robertdfrench]

Have y'all tried running this in an LX-branded zone? It mostly works, except for debugging (that seems to be an issue with running a Linux gdb on illumos anyhow, it issues some ioctl that isn't implemented yet). I don't think Microsoft is going to fix this for us, but we might be able to craft an image to run in an LX zone that contains like, all the core illumos libraries and such. I think if we do that, figure out how to get gdb running, and tell rustc that it should always cross-compile for illumos, it might be a sufficient dev environment.

Any thoughts, or rotten tomatoes to throw?

[rwcope2]

+1 for SunOS/SmartOS

[shanemcdo]

+1 for SunOS This would be a godsend.

[oraclejavanet]

+1 for Oracle Solaris 11.4

[oraclejavanet]

I can provide access to a number of Solaris 11.4 machines for testing. I can also provide any type of heavying lifting to getting this resolved. I can connect SSH using UltraEdit; however, I would rather work on these projects using VS Code.