[zones-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on zones-discuss

2007-02-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
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[zones-discuss] pkg-get setup in zonemgr

2007-02-08 Thread Manish Agrawal
I am trying to prepare the zones for pkg-get using zonemgr (I know I can use -G to install packages, but I want our students to play around with pkg-get). My problem is signature verification. I tried wget mirrors.html; gpg mirrors.html as specified on blastwave, but for some reason gpg does not

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Yes but one needs to be able to see that menu in order to select >the correct item first. A chicken-and-egg situation! But the console redirection setting in the BIOS should address that, right? Casper ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@ope

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought there were a grub "use ttya" and "use ttyb" line on the DVD? Yes but one needs to be able to see that menu in order to select the correct item first. A chicken-and-egg situation! Not that it matters so much for this case now, as I've hook

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>That's how I usually use the console on the X4200. However, that >arrangement doesn't work when one wants to (re)install Solaris. >Unless there's a way of telling the installer to use the serial >console while booting from DVD, rather than using the GUI? I thought there were a grub "use ttya"

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Many thanks for answering my question. Hopefully my noisy X4200 > >will be installed in the data centre tomorrow (Thursday); I had > >a set back today while fighting with the Remote Console feature > >of ILOM 1.1.1 (i.e., it doesn't work). :-( > >

Re: [zones-discuss] Capped memory observability

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Allan Packer wrote: Hi, Does this code modify rcapd to properly account for shared memory? That particular feature was mentioned in the case materials for PSARC 2006/496, but I wasn't clear on whether it made it in or not. Allan, Yes, we added new support in the kernel to account for this

Re: [zones-discuss] Capped memory observability

2007-02-08 Thread Allan Packer
Hi, Does this code modify rcapd to properly account for shared memory? That particular feature was mentioned in the case materials for PSARC 2006/496, but I wasn't clear on whether it made it in or not. TIA, Allan On 06/02/2007, at 4:42 PM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: Mike, Mike Gerdts wro

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ivan Buetler wrote: Jerry, Thank you for your response. See my zonecfg of the named NGZ here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # zonecfg -z named export create -b set zonepath=/zpool/zones/named set autoboot=true add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/lib end add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/platform end add inherit-pkg-d

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Ivan Buetler
Jerry, Thank you for your response. See my zonecfg of the named NGZ here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # zonecfg -z named export create -b set zonepath=/zpool/zones/named set autoboot=true add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/lib end add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/platform end add inherit-pkg-dir set dir=/sbin end a

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ivan Buetler wrote: Is this true for OpenSolaris? My experience: I was trying to upgrade from "SunOS 5.11 snv_28" to "SunOS 5.11 snv_54" where my NGZ zone roots were set to a zfs mount point like below: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zpool 93.8G 40.1G26

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

2007-02-08 Thread Enda O'Connor
Marty Nash wrote: Hi... I'm getting ready to apply the latest recommenced patch cluster to my system. I have several sparse root zones as well. I see where the latest version of patch 119254, fixes a lot of issues with patching zones. Is is best to stop all applications running on the zone (Oracl

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Many thanks for answering my question. Hopefully my noisy X4200 >will be installed in the data centre tomorrow (Thursday); I had >a set back today while fighting with the Remote Console feature >of ILOM 1.1.1 (i.e., it doesn't work). :-( Just ssh into it and use the serial console from within