[zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage
After reading only a little about zones.. I doubt I really get the expected usage one might put a zone to. My case is very homespun just a home lan with at most... 6 machines. 1 vista(laptop) 3 winXP 1 linux 1 Opensolaris (2009.6 still using b111) I've been mainly a linux user until recently but use 3 winXP machines for video and photography processing since I work largely with all Adobe tools. I'm more experienced with admin type chores on linux.. I'm using the Opensol machine for most backup type jobs across the lan. Or in cases where the backup may originate on a windows machine such as with `Retrospect', the opensol machine is the recipient only. I wondered if there would be any advantage to creating a zone where only the backup chores were handled, nothing else. I can't be sure if that is even the kind of thing one would do with a zone, but it seems kind of likely it would be handy to have an area where nothing but backup chores were in order. Another zone I've thought about would be for nameservice to my home lan. Maybe a mail server might be another zone usage. I hoped to hear from a few experienced `zones' users about such a usage. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage
May be use vbox or xen in opensolarris --- Original message --- From: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com Sent: 14/7/'09, 7:35 After reading only a little about zones.. I doubt I really get the expected usage one might put a zone to. My case is very homespun just a home lan with at most... 6 machines. 1 vista(laptop) 3 winXP 1 linux 1 Opensolaris (2009.6 still using b111) I've been mainly a linux user until recently but use 3 winXP machines for video and photography processing since I work largely with all Adobe tools. I'm more experienced with admin type chores on linux.. I'm using the Opensol machine for most backup type jobs across the lan. Or in cases where the backup may originate on a windows machine such as with `Retrospect', the opensol machine is the recipient only. I wondered if there would be any advantage to creating a zone where only the backup chores were handled, nothing else. I can't be sure if that is even the kind of thing one would do with a zone, but it seems kind of likely it would be handy to have an area where nothing but backup chores were in order. Another zone I've thought about would be for nameservice to my home lan. Maybe a mail server might be another zone usage. I hoped to hear from a few experienced `zones' users about such a usage. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage
Why? What he plans can be done easily using NGZ (non-global zones). An NGZ also adds just a little bit of overhead (if any at all) to the system - unlike vbox. What would be the gain of using a more complex technology like vbox/xen in comparison to NGZs? On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 13:42, Dr Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) hung-sheng.t...@sun.com wrote: May be use vbox or xen in opensolarris --- Original message --- From: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com Sent: 14/7/'09, 7:35 After reading only a little about zones.. I doubt I really get the expected usage one might put a zone to. My case is very homespun just a home lan with at most... 6 machines. 1 vista(laptop) 3 winXP 1 linux 1 Opensolaris (2009.6 still using b111) I've been mainly a linux user until recently but use 3 winXP machines for video and photography processing since I work largely with all Adobe tools. I'm more experienced with admin type chores on linux.. I'm using the Opensol machine for most backup type jobs across the lan. Or in cases where the backup may originate on a windows machine such as with `Retrospect', the opensol machine is the recipient only. I wondered if there would be any advantage to creating a zone where only the backup chores were handled, nothing else. I can't be sure if that is even the kind of thing one would do with a zone, but it seems kind of likely it would be handy to have an area where nothing but backup chores were in order. Another zone I've thought about would be for nameservice to my home lan. Maybe a mail server might be another zone usage. I hoped to hear from a few experienced `zones' users about such a usage. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Alexander -- [[ http://zensursula.net ]] [ Soc. = http://twitter.com/alexs77 | http://www.plurk.com/alexs77 ] [ Mehr = http://zyb.com/alexws77 ] [ Chat = Jabber: alexw...@jabber80.com | Google Talk: a.sk...@gmail.com ] [ Mehr = AIM: alexws77 ] [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] = 0 ] rm -rf / || echo 'CLICK!' ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: After reading only a little about zones.. I doubt I really get the expected usage one might put a zone to. My case is very homespun just a home lan with at most... 6 machines. 1 vista(laptop) 3 winXP 1 linux 1 Opensolaris (2009.6 still using b111) I've been mainly a linux user until recently but use 3 winXP machines for video and photography processing since I work largely with all Adobe tools. I'm more experienced with admin type chores on linux.. I'm using the Opensol machine for most backup type jobs across the lan. Or in cases where the backup may originate on a windows machine such as with `Retrospect', the opensol machine is the recipient only. I wondered if there would be any advantage to creating a zone where only the backup chores were handled, nothing else. I can't be sure if that is even the kind of thing one would do with a zone, but it seems kind of likely it would be handy to have an area where nothing but backup chores were in order. Another zone I've thought about would be for nameservice to my home lan. Maybe a mail server might be another zone usage. I hoped to hear from a few experienced `zones' users about such a usage. Zones are handy when you need an added degree of isolation. The time that I could see such a need for typical home usage would be if you have an internet-facing web server or similar. I would put the web server in a zone and have my router set up to forward http packets to that zone. If someone breaks through the web server's security and gets shell access, they get shell access only to the things that are on the web server. Presumably the web server zone doesn't have access to sensitive things, like your tax records. In a business situation, there are several other use cases. Longer term, management of zones (e.g. applying software updates) takes extra effort. As such, I wouldn't break things up into separate zones any more than makes sense to satisfy your needs. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in down state.
This issue is resolved .. the problem was the lofi .. i had mounted the iso image and the moment i removed the lofi from the global zone i was able to boot the zone back. DO not know whats the reason for this but it did solve my problem -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage
Alexander Skwar alexanders.mailinglists+nos...@gmail.com writes: What he plans can be done easily using NGZ (non-global zones). An NGZ also adds just a little bit of overhead (if any at all) to the system - unlike vbox. So you're saying a zone to handle all backup work is a sensible way to go at it... Can you tell me what would be the advantage of creating a zone for that as against just doing thru the normal os... no zones. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
