cPanel on SmartOS

[nicmitchell]

According to cPanel information, cPanel 11.38 has been reported to be working on SmartOS.
Reference: Step 2: System Requirements for cPanel & WHM 11.38 Installation

However, when attempting to install on a fresh SmartOS server, I receive the following error message in Terminal:

2013-05-21 21:38:00 562 ( INFO): Beginning Installation v3
2013-05-21 21:38:00 479 (ERROR): Unknown or unsupport operating system. (SunOS)
2013-05-21 21:38:00 480 (ERROR): Unsupported distro detected. cPanel only supports CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, and CloudLinux 5 and 6
2013-05-21 21:38:00 481 (FATAL): Please re-install cPanel from a valid distro


Has anyone successfully installed cPanel on SmartOS? Can you provide any advice?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

SmartOS is listed under:

"Virtual Environments Detected and Reported as Functional"

What this means is that the hardware node could use SmartOS, but the virtual server itself will still need to use a supported OS (e.g. CentOS 6).

Thank you.

 

[nicmitchell]

Thank you for your response Michael.

I see, so I need to create a new virtual server on the machine and install CentOS on top of that. I will give that a shot.

 

[JaredR.]

That is correct. Also, we do not support cPanel installed on a VPS hardware node. It must be installed on a VPS container, not on the hardware node.