Jan Damborsky wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Susan Sohn wrote: >> Hi Sarah, >> >> Thank you for reading the spec and for your comments. Responses below. >> >> On 07/06/09 14:36, Sarah Jelinek wrote: >>> Hi Sue, >>> >>> My comments on services spec. Apologies for delay. I have browsed >>> Ethan's review and your responses prior to sending my comments. If I >>> am repeating anything that has been said in those threads, please >>> just point me to the data. >>> >>> Section 1.4.1: >>> >>> -What about support for zones? I am not sure what is meant by >>> 'supported' in this context. I am assuming creation of and >>> installation in to these VM's? If so, would zones support fall in >>> this category? >> >> You are correct about your assumption (creation and installation into >> VMs). As for zones, Jan will look into this further. > > Yes, that section captures environments in which AI client is supposed > to be run > and populate the target within in that environment. > Zones are not listed there, as it was originally assumed that other > mechanisms > for populating zones are to be used (e.g. zonecfg(1M) & zoneadm(1M)). If > there might be scenarios in which it would be useful to invoke AI client > within > the zone, then we should capture zones as supported environment as well. >
A number of users have expressed a desire to be able to provision non-global zones using the same automation mechanisms used for the global zone, as they feel it promotes consistency and reduces complexity in their administration procedures. Work with the zones team to support this would obviously be required, but I would like to leave the possibility open. Dave
