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  • ISO Image - For running in Virtual Box, VMware, UTM for Apple Silicon or booting hardware from read-only media.
  • USB Image - For booting on real hardware using read/write media.
  • VMware VM Image - Ready-made image for VMware. (Note: Do not use the first disk presented during disk selection (c0t0d0). This is the boot media and overwriting it will make the machine not boot anymore).
  • Platform Archive - Platform image only. This is not a bootable media, but can be extracted to existing bootable media such as a USB drive or a PXE server.
  • View a list of all objects for the latest release - This includes everything above, plus things like the build environment, build log, default root password, etc.

If you already have SmartOS installed, see Upgrading SmartOS.

Additional Downloads

Using These Images

Once you've downloaded an image, please read the Quick Start and Getting Started guides for information on getting up to speed quickly and refer to one of the following pages applicable to your preferred installation type:

Understanding SmartOS Builds

There is a new build, on average, every 2 weeks. SmartOS builds do not have a version number, rather they have a timestamp in the form: 20120809T221258Z (in this example, the date is: 08/09/2012 at 22:12:58 UTC)

For any given build, there will be 5 files available:

  • platform-*(timestamp)*.tgz: The raw kernel and boot_archive; this is most commonly used for PXE booting
  • smartos-*(timestamp)*.iso: Live Image ISO
  • smartos-*(timestamp)*-usb.img.bz2: Live Image USB image for booting real hardware. This is the preferred installation method for production
  • smartos-*(timestamp)*.vmwarevm.tar.bz2: VMware Image (VMX Format) Note: Make sure nested virtualization is enabled if you want to use KVM or BHYVE.
  • SINGLE_USER_ROOT_PASSWORD.*(timestamp)*.txt: Contains the default root password for the live image (needed only when booting without mounting the zpool)

For a full list of changes in each build, please refer to the SmartOS Change Log.

Accessing the Source

SmartOS source is freely available and can be accessed on Github.

For more information on SmartOS Development, please refer to the SmartOS Developers Guide