Re: [zones-discuss] How to configure Global/Local zone in seperatesubnet and use seperate router

2008-03-06 Thread Moore, Joe
(Adding networking-discuss in the hopes of actually finding an answer) Mike Gerdts wrote: > Is there a good reference for all of the nifty things you can do on > Solaris networking (IPMP, aggregation, VLAN tagging, etc.) and the > corresponding configuration guidelines for popular networking gear?

[zones-discuss] Zones + LiveUpgrade + SVM = cpio

2008-03-26 Thread Moore, Joe
I'm seeing some odd behavior when I'm trying to upgrade my Solaris 10u4 (sparc) system. I have SVM configured with a mirrored root (d0) and /zoneroot (d3) filesystems: d0 -m d10 d20 d10 1 1 c1t0d0s0 d20 1 1 c1t1d0s0 d3 -m d13 d23 d13 1 1 c1t0d0s3 d23 1 1 c1t1d0s3 There's a sparse zone with zonero

Re: [zones-discuss] zlogin and locales

2008-04-02 Thread Moore, Joe
Steve Lawrence wrote: > Looks like the environment contained in /etc/default/init is > read and set > by startd and init. Since zlogin'ed processes are not child > of startd or init > in the zone, they do not have these environment settings. > > Given brands, to fix this, we would need to add a

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Moore, Joe
Mike Gerdts wrote: > 1. Let's pretend that a zone is a virtual machine. I could make the > same argument using longer sentences if that makes someone happy. > 2. For example, if you know all global zones are on the 192.168.1.0/24 > subnet, the following will give you a pretty good clue. Other zon

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Moore, Joe
Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > > Personally, we've defined a DNS alias for -vh to point to > > the global zone for each of our local zones. That way we can `ssh > > www-zh zoneadm -z www reboot` easily. > > Interesting. Why don't ssh to the non-global ? > > `ssh www init 6` That assumes several thing

Re: [zones-discuss] Moving zones between different sparc architecture

2009-02-16 Thread Moore, Joe
Octave Orgeron wrote: > Ben Rockwood wrote: > pol.barthel...@sun.com wrote: > > Hello, > > It is supported to move zones from a sun4u to a sun4v or > vice-versa ? > > I'm not certain if its "supported", but it does work. > > This should work fine for zones, but I would recommend > installing a

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-30 Thread Moore, Joe
William Roche wrote: > Now about the automounter, I share Nico's point of view, but as far as > I > know nothing like that already exist, and No, the automounter or a > mount > request isn't 'clever' enough (or customized enough) yet to handle NFS > data shared by the global zone and translate the

Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage

2009-07-22 Thread Moore, Joe
Jeff Victor wrote: > Seriously, it would be helpful for Sun to understand the advantages of > a release that doesn't have a GUI as an option. In other words, what > problems are caused by the existence of the GUI software (besides > wasted disk space)? > > Instead of a separate distro, perhaps it