Re: [zones-discuss] Upgrading solaris10 branded zones

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Enda O'Connor wrote: d) This is complex, legacy code which is a hairball. that is the mild way of putting it, this code is a tangle of scripts and some C code, it took a a lot of work to iron out the issues that the zones on zfs + sparc new boot features introduced in u6 prior to releasing

Re: [zones-discuss] Upgrading solaris10 branded zones

2009-05-18 Thread Enda O'Connor
Jerry Jelinek wrote: I've been spending some time researching ideas for how we could upgrade Solaris 10 once its installed in a solaris10 branded zone on S.next. We won't need this capability until S10u9 is released, but I want to make sure we do whatever we need to do now in order to enable this

[zones-discuss] Upgrading solaris10 branded zones

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
I've been spending some time researching ideas for how we could upgrade Solaris 10 once its installed in a solaris10 branded zone on S.next. We won't need this capability until S10u9 is released, but I want to make sure we do whatever we need to do now in order to enable this for the future. I ha

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Peter Tribble wrote: The key advantage of using sparse-root is that there's only one OS to manage. With whole-root zones, and other heavier solutions, there's an extra OS image to manage with each virtual system. From an admin perspective, whole-root zones offer no real advantage over xen/vmware,

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Bob Netherton
Solaris 10 with sparse root zones provides an excellent virtualization solution. If you want systems that are largely identical (but perhaps with different applications) then it's pretty much optimal, and very resource efficient. Agreed. The most efficient form of application stacking with c

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Devin Ceartas
Exactly the question I'm trying to answer. My current solution is multiple OpenBSD instanced in VMWare, and it works great, just wish I could get more instances per physical host. - devin On May 18, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jerry Jelinek wro

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > I don't think anyone ever thought installing a zone with > SVr4 pkging was fast. Last time I did the measurement the svr4 bit for a sparse root zone was about 3 minutes; I have managed to optimize that down to a minute or so. Typically I've

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > > I don't know what "single" binary you are talking > about. If all of the sparse zones are running the same > applications then there would sharing. If they are > running different applications or even running common > apps at different ti

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > > Since software management for zones on OpenSolaris is still > evolving, it would be helpful for us if you could describe > what problems the lack of a sparse zone will cause you. Solaris 10 with sparse root zones provides an excellent virt

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 05/18/09 12:38, Jerry Jelinek wrote: Steffen Weiberle wrote: I originally could only imagine the reason for not doing the mounts when the zone is not booted is to avoid a huge set of ZFS mounts for zones that are not running. However, I see three ZFS file systems for a zone, and this is wit

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Steffen Weiberle wrote: I originally could only imagine the reason for not doing the mounts when the zone is not booted is to avoid a huge set of ZFS mounts for zones that are not running. However, I see three ZFS file systems for a zone, and this is without any Live Upgrade (beadm) operation.

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 05/18/09 11:31, Jerry Jelinek wrote: Steffen Weiberle wrote: I have been doing all on Solaris next testing using Nevada, as all the tools I know work, and my understanding of installation and configuration applies to that as well as Solaris 10. Now I am playing with 2009.06 and some 'simple

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Christine Tran
> Installing from a repo is orthogonal to the sparse > vs. whole root discussion. That is tracked as: > > 1947 Offline zone creation is impossible I'm not complaining, just describing what's important to me (and my shop) re:zones going forward. This thread started out as "no sparse zone on OS",

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Christine Tran wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: Thanks for the write-up. It is helpful for us to know what peoples concerns are for the sparse vs. whole root configurations. Our application make and destroy zones as needed. We've built up a set of tools to creat

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Steffen Weiberle wrote: I have been doing all on Solaris next testing using Nevada, as all the tools I know work, and my understanding of installation and configuration applies to that as well as Solaris 10. Now I am playing with 2009.06 and some 'simple' things don't work as expected. I couldn

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Christine Tran
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > Thanks for the write-up. It is helpful for us to > know what peoples concerns are for the sparse vs. whole > root configurations. Our application make and destroy zones as needed. We've built up a set of tools to create, clone, and tear d

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Casper . Dik
>I don't know what "single" binary you are talking >about. If all of the sparse zones are running the same >applications then there would sharing. If they are >running different applications or even running common >apps at different times, then there would be little >sharing. The core OS daemo

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 05/18/09 09:59, Jerry Jelinek wrote: Devin Ceartas wrote: The problems this may cause me are largely theoretical at this point, as I'm just beginning to ramp my OpenSolaris use up. My concern is conserving RAM, which full vs. sparse zones may or may not effect, I don't know, and with ease

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Hung-Sheng Tsao wrote: >guess is that the memory sharing benefits of sparse zones >are relatively small in most cases. May be I am wrong here, it seems that with sparse zone and "single" binary for all zone there must be same memory sharing!!! I don't know what "single" binary you are talki

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao
>guess is that the memory sharing benefits of sparse zones >are relatively small in most cases. May be I am wrong here, it seems that with sparse zone and "single" binary for all zone there must be same memory sharing!!! On 05/18/09 09:59, Jerry Jelinek wrote: Devin Ceartas wrote: The problems

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Devin Ceartas wrote: The problems this may cause me are largely theoretical at this point, as I'm just beginning to ramp my OpenSolaris use up. My concern is conserving RAM, which full vs. sparse zones may or may not effect, I don't know, and with ease of management. My use case is running mu

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Devin Ceartas
The problems this may cause me are largely theoretical at this point, as I'm just beginning to ramp my OpenSolaris use up. My concern is conserving RAM, which full vs. sparse zones may or may not effect, I don't know, and with ease of management. My use case is running multiple instances of

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
gz wrote: Double Yiekes!!. All my customers use an SOE of sparce zones (With Solaris 10 of course) so if that is really the case it will be a problem for them to migrate to OpenSolaris if/when that becomes neccessary. Something like this could have serious concequences down the track and shoul

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Devin Ceartas wrote: Yikes! Seriously, no sparse zones? That wasn't in the Bible book I don't think. This is a pretty big deal! Is this list the best place to follow to learn such things? Yes, this has been discussed on this alias in the past. Also, Dan Price blogged about this here: http://b