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 _______________________________________________ ldoms-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss
