On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:53 AM, Liam Merwick wrote:

> Glen Gunselman wrote:
>> I'm preparing to upgrade a T5220 from firmware 7.1.6.d and LDoms 
>> 1.0.3,REV=2008.04.22.23.09 to firmware 7.2.8  and LDoms 
>> 1.3,REV=2010.01.07.23.26.
>> According to the Logical Domains 1.3 Release Notes - January 2010 (pg 17) I 
>> will need to rebuild the Control Domain.  The rebuild procedure on page 152 
>> of Logical Domains 1.3 Administration Guide January 2010 indicates to pick 
>> tidbits from the xml file.  That file is 23K for this server.  Are there any 
>> tools for creating the cli commands or is it all manual.
> 
> Rebuilding the control domain is only necessary if you were running LDoms 1.0 
> (i.e.
> this does not refer to LDoms 1.0.1, 1.0.2 or 1.0.3). There was a one-time 
> incompatible
> change in 1.0.1 but all subsequent releases are forward-compatible.
> 
> You can just upgrade the software components but I'd advise keeping an XML 
> backup
> of the config/each domain all the same (there is no tool that parses the XML 
> and
> generates the ldm(1M) commands but it shouldn't come to that).

Also, it's recommended to save & restore the LDoms constraint database file at 
/var/opt/SUNWldm/ldom-db.xml across the upgrade.  This is mentioned in the 
Admin Guide.

-Eric
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