On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Ram kumar <ram.kum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Cindy, > > Thanks for the email. > > We are using Solaris 10 with out Live Upgrade. > > Tested following in the sandbox environment: > > 1) We have one non-global zone (TestZone) which is running on Test > zpool (SAN) > > 2) Don’t see zpool or non-global zone after re-image of Global zone. > > 3) Imported zpool Test > > Now I am trying to create Non-global zone and it is giving error > > bash-3.00# zonecfg -z Test > Test: No such zone configured > Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone. > zonecfg:Test> create -a /zones/Test > invalid path to detached zone
If you use create -a, it requires that SUNWdetached.xml exist as a means for configuring the various properties (e.g. zonepath, brand, etc.) and resources (inherit-pkg-dir, net, fs, device, etc.) for the zone. Since you don't have the SUNWdetached.xml, you can't use it. Assuming you have a backup of the system, you could restore a copy of /etc/zones/<zonename.xml> to /etc/zones/restored-<zonename>.xml, then run: zonecfg -z <zonename> create -t restored-<zonename> If that's not an option or is just too inconvenient, use zonecfg to configure the zone just like you did initially. That is, do not use "create -a", use "create", "create -b", or "create -t <whateverTemplateYouUsed>" followed by whatever property settings and added resources are appropriate. After you get past zonecfg, you should be able to: zoneadm -z <zonename> attach If the package and patch levels don't match up (the global zone perhaps was installed from a newer update or has newer patches): zoneadm -z <zonename> attach -U or zoneadm -z <zonename> attach -u Since you seem to be doing this in a test environment to prepare for bad things to happen, I'd suggest that you make it a standard practice when you are done configuring a zone to do: zonecfg -z <zonename> export > <zonepath>/zonecfg.export Then if you need to recover the zone using only the things that are on the SAN, you can do: zpool import ... zonecfg -z <zonename> -f <zonepath>/zonecfg.export zoneadm -z <zonename> attach [-u|-U] Any follow-ups should probably go to Oracle Support or zones-discuss. Your problems are not related to zfs. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
