On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Michael Ghens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has to do with NFS. Only the global zone can do NFS on Solaris.
Nah, that's not it. SRSS doesn't care about NFS. >>>> "Antony Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/19/2008 4:37 PM >>> > The question came up from management about why can't we put SRSS into a > non-global zone on Solaris 10? > > I said something to the effect that it must require direct access to the > kernel, but that's a guess. That's part of it. SRSS includes some kernel device drivers, and those device drivers currently have no knowledge of zones. A local zone also doesn't allow several privileges SRSS needs, including the privileges that allow the creation of device nodes and the manipulation of process priorities. Dealing with networking in local zones has some quirks too, especially if you need to do the things that SRSS tries to do currently. Those are the big items. There are a bunch of smaller ones too, notably in the way SRSS gets installed and upgraded. They're all solvable -- heck, this is all software, just about anything is possible given enough time and effort -- if and when they get rise far enough on the priority list to get engineers assigned to solve them. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
