Re: [zones-discuss] Can I configure my zones on a ZFS filesystem?

2008-06-30 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Dick Davies wrote: Ah, that's really interesting ( a bigger deal than ZFS root boot for me). Does Nevada LU support it yet? Or does anyone know when it will? As far as I'm aware it's integrated into nevada ( I will check this out and find out build ), and it will be going into s10 update 6.

Re: [zones-discuss] convert sparse zone to whole root zone?!?

2008-05-29 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Krzys wrote: Is there way to convert sparse solaris zone to whole root zone? if yes what or how could I do that? Is it even possible to do so? ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Hi No it's not possible, currently you'd

Re: [zones-discuss] WARNING

2008-04-25 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Sanjay Akula wrote: Did anybody saw this WARNING messages while loading patch cluster what does it means. Installing 120011-14... /kernel/drv/sparcv9/fcp: undefined symbol 'fc_ulp_hold_remote_port' WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'fcp' WARNING: fctl: ULP FCSM version mismatch;

Re: [zones-discuss] Moving zones to a new system

2008-03-31 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
31, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crambit Team wrote: Hi all, I need to move two zones to a 2 different systems as global zone. In one of them I have Oracle. My questions

Re: [zones-discuss] Moving zones to a new system

2008-03-31 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Crambit Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Enda, the Solaris release is 8/07. What I really need is move the zone (doing like an ufsdump) and let it becaming a global zone and not a zone in a another system. This is because we didn't have a

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone creation Hangs.

2008-02-04 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Morris Hooten wrote: I've crated many zones but haven't seen this one yet and have tried a few things and can't get it past this point in installing the new zone. it just hangs at the point below any hinsts? i looked in sunsolve but nothing specific thanks Creating list of

Re: [zones-discuss] [zfs-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mangan wrote: Is this a release that can be downloaded from the website and will work on SPARC systems. The write up says it is for VMware. Am I missing something? Use Solaris 10 9/07. It has more than a year's worth of improvements and enhancements to Solaris. -- richard

Re: [zones-discuss] [zfs-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Richard Elling wrote: Morris Hooten wrote: I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not completly sure of the best scenario. ok, perhaps we should add some clarifications... I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array and would like to

Re: [zones-discuss] [zfs-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones

2007-12-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
numbers, 9.07 was what Richard meant. Enda When is the next release for Sparc due out? Paul -Original Message- From: Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 21, 2007 9:15 AM To: Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], zones-discuss

Re: [zones-discuss] Can't install zone after 10_recommended

2007-11-29 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mangan wrote: I installed the 10_recommended patchset on a machine that had a running zone. The host machine and the running zone appear to be ok but when I try to install an additional zone the new zone gets created but it won't go through the sys config routine and you can't change the

Re: [zones-discuss] Configuration on first boot of a zone

2007-11-07 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Andrew Black wrote: When I first create a zone, it normally asks you some questions such as the time zone and whether you want NIS etc. - is there any way of autmating this so you always get the same answer - today I created a zone and it didnt ask me these questions. I wasnt aware of

Re: [zones-discuss] Non-interactive zone creation

2007-11-06 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Bryan Allen wrote: On Nov 6, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Hi all, Is there anyone here working on something able to create/configure/ boot a zone without interactivity ? I tried to update create_zone.sh but it's a little bit hard to maintain it in shell. So, an

Re: [zones-discuss] zlogin invoked by cron hangs after a few minutes

2007-10-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Damien Carbery wrote: are you piping /dev/null to STDIn in the commands, I can see you did that on the commands line, but not clear if you did it in the script or not. For every command in the script? The script is: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/trunk/cron-script.sh

Re: [zones-discuss] RSC cards and zlogin -C to a zone clash of interest

2007-10-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Ihsan Zaghmouth wrote: Here's one issue that was raised by a Sun customer ... Looks like we have a clash of ineterst on ~. They have v490s with RSC cards (Remote System Control) and Zones. When they do *console -C zone* , then do a *~.* to disconnect from that zones console, it takes

Re: [zones-discuss] RSC cards and zlogin -C to a zone clash of interest

2007-10-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
to access extended functions and to disconnect from the login. *The default escape character is the tilde (~).* as both use tilde, you need the double ~~. ie escape the tilde itself as I suggested ( try it and it should work ) Enda Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote

Re: [zones-discuss] troubleshooting zone boot issues - failed with exit code 32

2007-10-10 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Jerry Kemp wrote: I have a Sun T2000 running Solaris 10u2, all UFS file systems that has been in place for several months. This morning during a reboot, I had a zone that would not come back up. It failed to boot due to an inability to mount /svc with an error of failed with exit code 32.

Re: [zones-discuss] Problem patching zones with kernel patch 120011-14

2007-10-10 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi your sparse zone's zonepath in in /usr and it inherits /usr as well. In our testing pkgadd calls getcwd in /dev/.SUNW_patches_0909107281-1123512-01035723188c/120011-14 inside the zone, which instead of returning /dev/.SUNW.. as the absolute path returns the absolute path

Re: [zones-discuss] /dev/ttyp* to non-global zone

2007-10-08 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Bangalore, Suresh wrote: Hi Gurus We have a non-global zone which is currently configured, installed and running. Now Customer wants to add /dev/ttyp* to the non-global zone. Tried adding to the zonecfg using adding device match: /dev/ttyp* and then rebooted the zone.

Re: [zones-discuss] S10 U3 Live Upgrade with zones

2007-10-03 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Richard Weatherley wrote: Hi Enda What is the ETA for 119255 ( -42) that addresses the problems with deferred activation patching for ZFS and VxFS when trying to install 120012-14? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zones-discuss] S10 U3 Live Upgrade with zones

2007-10-03 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Richard Weatherley wrote: Hi Enda What is the ETA for 119255 ( -42) that addresses the problems with deferred activation patching for ZFS and VxFS when trying to install 120012-14? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] bug? zone wont create device files during boot

2007-10-03 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Dan Price wrote: On Tue 02 Oct 2007 at 07:35AM, Konstantin Gremliza wrote: Someone earlier stated that this was also broken in SXDE-- as far as I know that is *not* the case. One of the reasons this has been a troublesome area is that in Nevada the /dev zones implementation is

Re: [zones-discuss] bug? zone wont create device files during boot

2007-10-03 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Jerry Jelinek wrote: Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: I tried build 74, add device set match=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 end add device set match=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 end rebooted zone and device is there ( verified it wasn't before hand ) We need the user case that fails. Enda

Re: [zones-discuss] Detect pkgs installed with -G?

2007-09-06 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Ihsan Zaghmouth wrote: Hi Jeff, Here is my 2 cents, after assuming that pkginfo should hold such an information post installation. The */var/sadm/pkg/pkgname/pkginfo* file lists among other info the *SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES*=true | false for the installed package. pkginfo should have an option

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching a machine with local zones

2007-09-06 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Ron Halstead wrote: When patching a machine with local zones, should the local zones be halted or left running? I can't seem to find a definitive answer. apply latest patchadd patch 119254 SPARC 119255 x86 Once the latest patch is applies, then either halted or running will work. One other

Re: [zones-discuss] Detect pkgs installed with -G?

2007-09-06 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Ihsan Zaghmouth wrote: Hi Jeff, Here is my 2 cents, after assuming that pkginfo should hold such an information post installation. The */var/sadm/pkg/pkgname/pkginfo* file lists among other info the *SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES*=true | false

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching a machine with local zones

2007-09-06 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mike Gerdts wrote: On 9/6/07, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other thing, make sure to run patchadd -a patchid-revision first, -a basically does a dryrun, boots any halted zones etc and does dependency checks. Hmmm, I've been looking for dryrun

Re: [zones-discuss] trying to login with solaris Ldap client

2007-08-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
= bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) index_param failed (18) conn=76 op=98 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= conn=76 op=99 SRCH base=ou=users,dc=tel,dc=uva,dc=es scope=1 deref=3 filter=((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dpercam)) conn=76 op=99 SRCH attr=cn uid uidnumber gidnumber gecos

Re: [zones-discuss] Accessing CD from a non global zone

2007-08-20 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Andrew Black wrote: Hi Is there a way of allowing a non global zone to see the CD drive on a machine? Failing that, any alternative ways forward, eg creating an image of the CD and sharing this as a file? Andrew ___ zones-discuss mailing

Re: [zones-discuss] zone stuck in shutting_down state

2007-08-20 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Steve Zinck wrote: For future reference, here's an update to my zone hung problem. It reoccurred late last week so I updated my case with Sun with a crash dump. After analysing it, they reported the following: It appears you are runnning

Re: [zones-discuss] zonecfg question

2007-08-02 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi What does zonadm -z labv490-01z5 have to say, ie is the zone in a state other than installed? so the complete steps for an installed zone are: zoneadm list -cv ( just to see zone state ) zoneadm -z labv490-01z5 halt ( if not in installed state ) zoneadm -z labv490-01z5 uninstall -F zonecfg

Re: [zones-discuss] zonecfg question

2007-08-02 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Yanakiev, Vladimir wrote: Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH 0 global running/ 1 labv490-01z3 running/export/zones/labv490-01z3/main 2

Re: [zones-discuss] zonecfg question

2007-08-02 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Yanakiev, Vladimir wrote: That was my first question - I can not figure out how this did happened. We have the xml, but the entry in the index file is missing. Maybe, the zoneadm -z...delete command got interrupted in the middle?... Fixing the problem by deleting the file is obvious, but the

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating a sparse root zone via a package's postinstall script

2007-08-01 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Fat Ted wrote: Hi, Is it possible to create a sparse root zone from within a package's postinstall script? I've created a package; and via the postinstall script, I want to create a basic sparse root zone. Despite the postinstall script working fine as a stand alone script (creates zone

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and Dtrace

2007-07-13 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:38:56AM -0700, Penelope Cotten wrote: Regarding new features in S10 U4: I neglected to include another new feature. The ability to use Live Upgrade on a system with zones installed is also a new feature for S10 U4. Does it work only

Re: [zones-discuss] Migrating ZFS pool with zones from one host to another

2007-06-21 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Essentially the zone info must be created on the destination system ( this is stored in /etc/zones, so not under zone root ) See step 5 in the second page ( How to Migrate A Non-Global Zone ) http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2450/6n4o5mdga?a=view other than the the zpool import will

Re: [zones-discuss] Finding out properties of a directory within a zone

2007-06-18 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Andrew Black wrote: Is there a way of finding out the status of a particular directory from within a nonglobal zone. I would like to find out whether a directory is - inherirted package directory (read only in the zone) - zone has its own copy - shared with the global zone Forgive me if I

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and Veritas Volume Manager... easy upgrades/LU usage possible ?

2007-06-05 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Gael wrote: With the current thread about upgrades, I was wondering if it would be possible to upgrade our currents frames to U4 as I would like to use the memory capping capabilities of U4... the one apparent issue here is that we are using Veritas for BOTH the BE and the zones filesystems

Re: [zones-discuss] Problem with install zone

2007-05-15 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Usually indicates a hardware problem, and a reboot (panic ) was induced to try and preserve the system integrity. To get more info run the FMA commands what does fmdump ( see fmdump(1m) ) indicate, run fmdump then fmdump -V on the uuid ie fmdumo -u UUID -V what type of system is this as

Re: [zones-discuss] Why is mount disabled for branded zones

2007-05-09 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
way to enhance a zone. We are now in the middle of correcting these problems. If you have information about places where this problem appears, please let us know so that we can fix the problem. Thanks, Ellard Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Tirthankar wrote: Hi, On my machine

Re: [zones-discuss] Why is mount disabled for branded zones

2007-05-09 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Bob Netherton wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:56 +0100, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: If so how will they be patched? ie will they have differenet package versions that those in global zone? non-native zones would have to use non-native methods - specifically they would

Re: [zones-discuss] Why is mount disabled for branded zones

2007-05-08 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Tirthankar wrote: Hi, On my machine (running s01u4_06) I have 3 local zones. pship2 @ / $ zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH BRANDIP 0 global running/ native shared 2 cz2

Re: [zones-discuss] Boot order

2007-05-02 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Matt Santimore wrote: All, Does any one have an idea of how to get my non-global zones (14 of them) to boot in a certain order after a global zone reboot. I'm thinking autoboot false then write my own global zone xml to boot them one at a time, but was hoping there is something easier.

[zones-discuss] heads up that 119254-36 119255-36 ( patchadd patch )has been released

2007-03-16 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Just a heads up that a new patchadd patch revision has been released to SunSolve. Revision 36 fixes issues with patchadd failing due to a bug in patchadd that determined if a patch wazx a global zone only patch -G functionality released with revision 34. Also fixes issues with patchrm

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Patching problem with whole root zones

2007-03-15 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi Adding back the zone-discuss list Possibly something around CR 6522362, which is due to how patchadd in 119254-34 handles patches that are THISZONEONLY=true, in particular JES patches/packages. I will try and replicate this, what rev of 119254 was installed prior to 34. Enda Freund,

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone start order

2007-03-07 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Paul Davis wrote: Is there a way to control the (auto) start order of zones or better yet even dependencies? We have a complete, tiered environment in zones and would like to control the start order: DB zone - APP zone - WEB zone Thanks, Paul

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in mounted state

2007-03-07 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: I have a non-global zone which shows in a 'mounted' state. (Guess, I hit on the CR#6217053 Now, I cant boot or halt it. Any help/workaround is much appreciated. Siva ___ zones-discuss mailing list

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone in mounted state

2007-03-07 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: Shivani/Enda, Thanks. This worked. 'unmount' is undocumented, is it? It's an internal zone state used by the patch/packaging tools to manage zones that are halted. Enda, yes. I was doing a pkgadd when I interrupted it. (to run pkgadd -G again). hmm, did

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching problem with whole root zones

2007-03-06 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Phil Freund wrote: When is it necessary to patch whole root zones directly? I was trying to make sure that I had all of my zones ready to be updated with DST patch 122034-04 so I made sure to install patch utilities patch 119254-34 on all of the global zones. I never thought to install it on

Re: [zones-discuss] OS update and zones question

2007-02-20 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Russ Petruzzelli wrote: Zones gurus, Got this note from our lab tech... In response to the lab tech's question would we just halt and uninstall the zone, but not delete it? Would that allow us to restore it after the installation upgrade? No not really, basically one would then have to run

Re: [zones-discuss] DST patch on a whole root zone

2007-01-30 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Bill Casale wrote: How do you update the DST patch on a whole root zone? Patch # 122032-03 has been applied to the global zone but it does not appear to have been passed to the non global zone. On the global zone the time stamps on the files included in that patch are changed. On the non global

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Strange phenomenon with zones

2007-01-30 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Ian Brown wrote: I must add the following: ps -z 0 does NOT hang and is OK. ps -z 0,3 DOES hang (again after sched) and 3 is the id of the zone I created. Regads, Ian This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Newly created zones will not boot

2007-01-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Jay Morrison wrote: UPDATE: We created another zone on one of our test servers but this time watched df -Z to see what was actually being mounted during the zonadm -z zonename install. It turns out that everything comes up as a LOFS mount during the installation, and the appropriate files

Re: [zones-discuss] zone configuration questions

2007-01-09 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Steve Zinck wrote: On 1/9/07, *Dave Bevans* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a customer using SOL 10 1/06 on a development box, needs to control Hardware resource allocation for software licensing. Wants to create container/zone, with a separate /var.

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: making local zone's /var a separate filesystem

2006-12-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Hi I need to investigate this ( is there a CR open for this issue ), but as a workaround, it it possible to boot the zones prior to patching 119254-31, then proceed with patching halted zones. Enda Renaud Manus wrote: You should be able to apply the patch if the local zones are booted in

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: making local zone's /var a separate filesystem

2006-12-11 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote: This is a bug in patchadd, 6438808, the fix is currently under test and should appear on SunSolve shortly, days that is. The patch is 119254-31 ( sparc ) Unfortunately we are not able to apply patch 119254-31 on our servers. See thread

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
prakash wrote: How to get global zone information from non-global zone, any coomand or any file to get the information ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Hi Basically you would

Re: [zones-discuss] zone config issues

2006-10-10 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
this further (just go to single user, mount it and luactivate it, right?) Let me know what I should do/try to find out what is being installed in the zone prior to SUNWcsr. Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Hi There should be a file /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWkrbu/save/pspool/SUNWkrbu/install