[zones-discuss] What is the status of zones on OpenSolaris?

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
thanks for the information, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] What is the status of zones on OpenSolaris?

2009-06-24 Thread Ben
be 2008.11? Many thanks once again, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Creating lots of identical zones

2010-02-26 Thread Ben
. If any of the above can be done in an unsupported way, I'd still be very happy to hear about it. Many thanks, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating lots of identical zones

2010-02-27 Thread Ben
Not to worry, found this: http://blogs.sun.com/zoltan/entry/mass_zone_creation_under_opensolaris Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] zonecfg, config files and VNICs

2010-03-04 Thread Ben
, it fails. I've not tried an interactive config yet. Any ideas? Thanks, Ben Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] zonecfg, config files and VNICs

2010-03-05 Thread Ben
is going on, I'll investigate further! Thank you very much, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] zonecfg, config files and VNICs

2010-03-05 Thread Ben
I found everything is made better if I put: verify commit exit At the end :D -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Do zones add to system stability?

2010-04-12 Thread Ben
, but wouldn't take the system down if it ran in a non-global zone? Thanks very much, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Do zones add to system stability?

2010-04-12 Thread Ben
stability. If I can induce a kernel panic I can say that my initial thought was incorrect. Many thanks, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Running X in a zone

2010-04-14 Thread Ben
) set the appropriate environment variable so that X sessions go to the global zone’s X windows session I presume for b, all I'd need to was: setenv DISPLAY my-global-zone But I don't know what to replace my-global-zone with. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Many, many thanks, Ben

Re: [zones-discuss] zone with X

2010-07-02 Thread Ben
I have been able to get zones to display X11 over SSH, but not sure about a whole GNOME desktop. IIRC, that isn't possible. I'll try and post instructions early next week :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list

Re: [zones-discuss] zone with X

2010-07-27 Thread Ben
Sorry about the wait. I've used this before: Shut down the zone From the global zone do this: pkg -R /path/to/zone/root install SUNWdbus Restart the zone This allowed me to do `SSH -X u...@myzone gedit` which might be halfway to what you want? HTH, Ben -- This message posted from

[zones-discuss] Defining Multiple RCTL Entries in Zone Config

2006-12-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
I'm interested in adding multiple entries for a single rctl that have diffrent actions to a zone config. Using the latest build (55 archives) I can only have one defined which means I can't create a layered plan of attack. For example, I'd like to be able to do this: rctl: name:

[zones-discuss] Re: running screen inside a zone...

2007-01-02 Thread Ben Rockwood
I've seen the same behaviour. When I use screen as root in a zone it works fine. benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Re: Ashanti and Zulu Details Needed

2007-01-07 Thread Ben Rockwood
Second Request. Any takers? benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zones-discuss] Re: Re: Ashanti and Zulu Details Needed

2007-01-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
I should probly state that the migrations I refer to are done, obviously, on sparse zones. Dealing with whole-root zones is a much more complex problem. benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list

[zones-discuss] Re: Zones on NFS

2007-01-22 Thread Ben Rockwood
Still looking for a quasi-official answer on this. Again, the questions that need specific answers to are: A) Why, specifically, can't Non-global roots be placed on NFS? B) Is anyone tasked with solving this? Is there an ARC case that I'm unaware of? LOFI might provide a workaround but I

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Zones on NFS

2007-01-24 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dan Price wrote: On Mon 22 Jan 2007 at 11:03PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: Still looking for a quasi-official answer on this. Again, the questions that need specific answers to are: A) Why, specifically, can't Non-global roots be placed on NFS? The problem is with the attribution

Re: [zones-discuss] unable to migrate zone

2007-02-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
Gerard Henry wrote: hello, i'm tryng to migrate a zone beetween 2 t2000, each in Solaris 10 11/06 on t2000-1: zoneadm -z servimp2 halt zoneadm -z servimp2 detach then rsync'ed zonepath from t2000-1 towards t2000-2 on t2000-2: t2000-root% zonecfg -z servimp2 servimp2: No such zone configured

Re: [zones-discuss] Is there a known issue with running zones with a different TZ than the global zone?

2007-10-10 Thread Ben Rockwood
Brandorr wrote: I am seeing some strange timestamps being reported by logrotate in the zone in a zone that has a different TZ than the global zone. (The Global zone is PST, and the zone in question is EST, and I am seeing indications that under certain situations certain apps think they are

Re: [zones-discuss] noteworthy: PSARC/2008/265 (pfiles and TLI)

2008-04-25 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dan Price wrote: It's hard to keep up with everything happening in the OpenSolaris universe-- for example, I missed this great PSARC case written by Peter Memishian: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/265/ Awesome! Thanks for pointing this out on the list Dan.

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone with IP address from a different subnet

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
Alain Durand wrote: Now the IP address assigned to vfe0:1 cannot be ping'ed, using snoop in the global zone I see the ICMP's coming but nothing being replied. What am I missing ? Have you looked at the routing tables in both of your test cases? This sounds like a routing issue.

Re: [zones-discuss] zoneadm boot error message

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
I'm gonna bump this with hopes a developer will pick it up. I do not yet see a bug associated with this issue. Based on my looks through the code this error occurs on line 2518 of vplat.c. The function configure_one_interface(); is called, but just prior loopback nwif_defrouter is nulled:

Re: [zones-discuss] zoneadm boot error message

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
James Carlson wrote: Ben Rockwood writes: I'm gonna bump this with hopes a developer will pick it up. I do not yet see a bug associated with this issue. You're talking about CR 6684810, which was fixed back in snv_88. Awesome, thanks James. benr

Re: [zones-discuss] help with domain resolution inside zones?

2008-09-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Devin Ceartas wrote: So at this point it's domain resolution I'm not getting inside the zone -- I can assign an IP to this static IP zone, and I can ssh to it from another machine. But I can't ping out from that zone past the subnet. I've copied my global zone /etc/resolv.conf into

Re: [zones-discuss] zoneroot on nfs?

2008-10-21 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jason King wrote: I haven't found any documentation (yet, still looking), that says anything either way, but I'm wondering to facilitate zone migration if you can place a zone root on an NFS filesystem? Obviously would only be mounted on 1 server at any given time, but outside of that, just

Re: [zones-discuss] Add a zpool to a Zone w/o reboot

2009-02-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Maidak Alexander J wrote: I added a zpool to a nonglobal zone using the following method: # *zpool list slabzone1-zp01* NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT slabzone1-zp01 4.19G 112K 4.19G 0% ONLINE - # *zonecfg -z slabzone1* zonecfg:slabzone1 *add

Re: [zones-discuss] Capped-Memory - swap physical? (was: Failing to NFS mount on non-global zone)

2009-02-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
We run into this problem repeatedly... swap in Solaris terms refers to total VM. This is true on most UNIX systems. However, we often mistakenly refer to pagefile (swap disk) simply and incorrectly as swap. Therefore, the swap cap is better thought of as a VM cap. Rcapd (physical) will keep

Re: [zones-discuss] Testing memory and swap caps

2009-03-11 Thread Ben Rockwood
I found a tool on Freshmeat or SourceForge called stress. It is a small stress test tool that can allocate memory in strides from multiple worker processes. Commonly I use the perl trick below which I learned from Brendan Gregg. Its kind of hackish, but it works. SunVTS is too big and refuses

Re: [zones-discuss] solaris10 brand project proposal

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jerry Jelinek wrote: I would like to propose a project to be sponsored by the zones community. This project would create a solaris10 branded zone for use on OpenSolaris. We will use the BrandZ infrastructure to deliver a solaris10 brand. This will be provided as an adoption and

[zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Has any one invested time trying to get IPKG branded zones working on S10/SX:CE? I'm starting down that road and have had fairly good progress to date but would love to collaborate. benr. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve that. benr. Mike Gerdts wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ben Rockwood b...@cuddletech.com wrote: Has any one invested time trying to get IPKG branded zones working on S10/SX:CE? I'm starting down that road

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jerry Jelinek wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: One issue I did smack into that I don't fully understand yet is the syseventd service failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve that. Ben, The sysevent service should not run in the ngz. This is delivered in a hollow pkg

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dan Price wrote: On Thu 23 Apr 2009 at 01:06PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: Jerry Jelinek wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: One issue I did smack into that I don't fully understand yet is the syseventd service failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dan Price wrote: I've filed http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8392 to cover this issue. If you monitor the status, it'll let you know when it makes sense to pull a new version of the pkg-gate and try out the fix. Thanks guys! Sweet, thanks Dan! benr.

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Stuck in a shutting_down state

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Rockwood
Derek McEachern wrote: It's possible that it could be nfs mount related since the zone did have nfs mounted fs's but they should have been umounted prior to shutting down the zone. In any event I can no longer get into the zone to checkusing zlogin and zlogin -C. I tried Bryan's suggestion

Re: [zones-discuss] Transfer from 'http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release' timed out: timed out.

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Rockwood
I had the same problem trying to install Sun Studio last week. I agree that this is a fundamental flaw. Whats kinda funny though is that its not really IPS's fault, nor is it Zone's fault... just an unusual intersection of two assumptions. The only solution currently is a local IPS mirror, but