[zones-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.11: How to use the sysidcfg file?

Hi all, I'd like to create a sysidcfg file to completely avoid configuration screens when booting a newly created zone. I found that with OpenSolaris 2008.11, I have to mount a zone, create the /etc/sysidcfg file under the zone's root directory and then unmount the zone again before booting, b

Re: [zones-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.11: How to use the sysidcfg file?

Bernd Finger wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to create a sysidcfg file to completely avoid configuration > screens when booting a newly created zone. > > I found that with OpenSolaris 2008.11, I have to mount a zone, create > the /etc/sysidcfg file under the zone's root directory and then unmount

Re: [zones-discuss] Package minimization question

I used the following package list in a jumpstart profile when building a cluster in the lab recently. There is still quite a bit of cruft that could be trimmed out of this list - I forced to add quite a few packages to resolve dependencies for the "required for our standard build" junk (mostly the

[zones-discuss] Tar performance in non-global zone is woeful

Hi all, I've just set up some zones on a V440 to host various applications. I've noticed extremely poor performance untarring various things, characterised by masses of very small io operations: devicer/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b sd0 3.4 162.8 28.8 90.7 0.0