Dan Price writes: > > Having a virtual console attached as a zone console sounds like a > > nifty idea to me. It doesn't sound as simple to achieve as just > > logging into the global zone and doing zlogin -C, but potentially > > useful. > > Does "nifty" translate into a customer use case here? I'm wary of > putting roadblocks in front of an obviously useful project in pursuit of > not-obviously-useful functionality.
"Nifty" translates into removing one of the non-regularities about the consoles on non-global zones. I can imagine cases where you might want to do this. For example, allowing physical console access to a machine in a data center that has non-global zones on it, where the zones represent different (but cooperative) organizations using the system. Today, you'd either have to allow root login to make that work, or you'd have to have some sort of "special" accounts that just exec zlogin. It can be done, but it's unattractive. I agree completely that we need virtual consoles to integrate _first_ and then worry about investigating other ways the new feature could be used. I was just commenting on Mike's observation, not suggesting that the project team run off and do something different. :-/ -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
