[zones-discuss] installing new os in zone

2006-07-17 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Ordinarily to  remove a zone, it says to: -- Step1: zoneadm -z ps-eng6-zoneX halt Step2: zoneadm -z ps-eng6-zoneX uninstall Step3: zonecfg -z ps-eng6-zoneX delete but I just want to lay down a new OS in my zone. Can I just do it this way (skipping deleting the zone)?: Step1: z

Re: [zones-discuss] installing new os in zone

2006-07-17 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
(flash a zone) and have a fresh zone to work with. (Or whatever other method would speed up the install:  -- Initializing package <435> of <1059>: percent complete: 41% Russ Jeff Victor wrote On 07/17/06 02:38 PM,: Russ Petruzzelli wrote: Ordinarily to remove a

Re: [zones-discuss] installing new os in zone

2006-07-17 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
What if I were to: install a zone.  And before installing any apps in it, I tar -cf MyCleanZone.tar   /export/zone2 When I need to wipe out my test setups, I just untar it. ? Russ Russ Petruzzelli wrote On 07/17/06 02:55 PM,: re: how is this valuable? 'Delete' an

Re: [zones-discuss] Unable to create a whole-root zone

2007-01-09 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
re: zoneadm -z zone-one install Is zone-one the hostname? In my script I have the hostname not the path/dir name. Russ Durga Deep wrote: Hi Folks I wanted to create a whole-root zone. I am never able to create one :(. Did some one encounter this problem ?. *) mkdir -m 700 /export/zone-one

[zones-discuss] OS update and zones question

2007-02-19 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
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? Thanks, Russ It looks like the upgrade failed. I had to upgrade the firmwar

Re: [zones-discuss] Preventing a Local zone hang from having to reboot the global zone

2007-04-11 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
This will re-boot the zone from the global zone, zoneadm -z hostnamezoneX boot Russ Victor Restrepo wrote On 04/11/07 07:40 AM,: >Hello All, > >I had a case where a hung process in a local zone (ie blocked on >biowait), caused the local zone to become unresponsive. Couldn't shut >the zone

[zones-discuss] how to set screen resolution?

2007-05-15 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Sorry this is not a zones question, but there seem to be plenty of Solaris experts on this alias... I cannot figure out how to set the screen resolution on my Solaris 10 sparc sunblade1000. I have a brand new flat panel monitor that supports many resolutions.Help or a re-direct to a good

[zones-discuss] zone info question

2007-07-06 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
In a script I'd like to run prtdiag if I am in a global zone. Is there a zoneadm command to tell me what kind of zone I'm in? It's not jumping out at me in the zoneadm help. eg: if [[ == true ]]; then OR is there a way to get this to run in a zone?... /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-80/

[zones-discuss] zonemgr question

2007-07-06 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
I'm trying to use the latest zonemgr...see script below. Must the zonename as specified by "-n" be the hostname? And if so, what is the purpose of specifying the hostname in "-I"? I ran zonemgr as seen below and it failed to complete nicely. It could not find the dns servers. and instructed me

[zones-discuss] solved: zonemgr question

2007-07-06 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
planet.com" \ TO -d "mf-usca19-12" \ it worked. Russ Russ Petruzzelli wrote: I'm trying to use the latest zonemgr...see script below. Must the zonename as specified by "-n" be the hostname? And if so, what is the purpose of specifying the hostname in "-I&qu

Re: [zones-discuss] [brandz-discuss] Creating a Virtualization Community Group

2007-08-07 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] often discusses virtualization in a general sense. I often see people bring up questions regarding comparing different virtualization implementations. Has it been considered to use this? (Granted the alias name appears to limit the focus to vmware...) Russ Nils Nieuwe

[zones-discuss] silent zone install?

2007-08-08 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Is there a way to make a zone installation totally silent? I use zonemgr to install, but at the end it says: Copy completed. Booting zone for the first time. Waiting for first boot tasks to complete. Then I "zlogin -C" into the zone and have to do the system identification; hostname, nameserv

Re: [zones-discuss] silent zone install?

2007-08-08 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Hi Huafeng , The zone manager project (and download links for the code)is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonemgr/ Thanks, Russ Huafeng Lu wrote: Russ Petruzzelli 写道: Is there a way to make a zone installation totally silent? I use zonemgr to install, but at the end

Re: [zones-discuss] silent zone install?

2007-08-28 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
t the name-server's IP on the line. Is there maybe something else that will allow "DNS" to work in the script? For instance, if /etc/hosts had the nameserver's entry hostname/IP? Thanks, Russ Huafeng Lu wrote: > forgot one sentence. see below. > > Huafeng Lu 写道: >

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory Usage in Zones

2007-09-05 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Looking at the website, it doesn't say anywhere what version this is. ie:  "Update 4" or some other version string. If I'm a customer who already has update 2 or 3, how am I supposed to know that this download is now update 4? We need to do a lot better on our website. Russ Mike Gerdts wro

Re: [zones-discuss] unable to rsh into zone2

2007-09-26 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
run "inetadm", see if rlogin is enabled... James Carlson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to get rsh working on zone2? I can zlogin to both zone1 and zone2 ok. xc12p11-b1# zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND

Re: [zones-discuss] unable to rsh into zone2

2007-09-26 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
Hi Lana, I also notice in your command you are attempting rsh by root. It is a big security risk, but you must comment out the CONSOLE line in /etc/default/login to allow root logins via rsh. Russ Russ Petruzzelli wrote: run "inetadm", see if rlogin is enabled... Jam

[zones-discuss] Has anybody seen this problem?...sparse/whole root identification with pkgcond

2008-04-18 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
I am running pkgcond in a whole-root, nonglobal zone: It seems the exit status of these commands is not consistent: (Is not a "1" false, and a "0" true?) Either way these command don't jive platform: SunOS r54s05-zone-01 5.10 Generic_127112-08 i86pc i386 i86pc /etc/release: Solaris

[zones-discuss] how to configure port listening in a zone?

2008-08-19 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
I have a glassfish webserver running in my Solaris 10 zone. It will not respond to remote jmxrmi requests on port 8686. If I connect locally with (for instance) jconsole it works fine. I believe it is somehow related to being in a zone. Because snoop -p 8686 from my zone... tells me, "no

Re: [zones-discuss] how to configure port listening in a zone?

2008-08-19 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
also: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: netstat -a | grep 8686 *.8686 *.*0 0 49152 0 LISTEN Russ Petruzzelli wrote: I have a glassfish webserver running in my Solaris 10 zone. It will not respond to remote jmxrmi requests on port 8686. If I connect locally with

Re: [zones-discuss] how to configure port listening in a zone?

2008-08-19 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
p: http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/entry/snoop_zoney_zone Could just be a network config/routing issue. Can you ping 10.5.185.103? Can you access other network services, like ssh? -Steve L. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:01:37PM -0700, Russ Petruzzelli wrote: I have a glassfish webserver runnin

Re: [zones-discuss] DVD/CD burning in a Non Global Zone

2008-11-26 Thread Russ Petruzzelli
You may find that 6712352 is a related bug (on sparc). (not having to do with non-global zones per se)   Once you burn a CD/DVD you can't mount it properly.     workaround:    svcadm disable -t volfs        then mount dvd manually with mount command. Took me forever to find the cause of th