IHAC who is pretty excited about the clone option in Solaris 10 11/06
(U3), however they're running into problems in the execution of the
clone option for zoneadm. Here are the step-by-step procedures they are
following
For example they have a zone called bluto-zone1 installed already and
they want to clone it. The bluto-zone1 currently has a loopback mounted
filesystem called localcw, as shown below in the generated master config
file
Steps:
1). zonecfg -z bluto-zone1 export -f /var/tmp/master ( Completes OK)
2). vi /var/tmp/master
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # vi master
"master" 24 lines, 368 characters
1 create -b
2 set zonepath=/zones/roots/bluto-zone2
3 set autoboot=true
4 add inherit-pkg-dir
5 set dir=/lib
6 end
7 add inherit-pkg-dir
8 set dir=/platform
9 end
10 add inherit-pkg-dir
11 set dir=/sbin
12 end
13 add inherit-pkg-dir
14 set dir=/usr
15 end
16 add fs
17 set dir=/usr/localcw
18 set special=/zones/roots/bluto-zone2/localcw
19 set type=lofs
20 end
21 add net
22 set address=129.153.180.21
23 set physical=hme0
We changed the ZONEPATH to reflect the new zonename and the IP as shown
above in the file. Then saved the file.
3). zonecfg -z bluto-zone2 -f /var/tmp/master ( This completed OK)
4). zoneadm -z bluto-zone2 clone bluto-clone1 (This fails as shown below)
Here is the ERROR they get: could not verify fs /usr/localcw: could not
access /zones/roots/bluto-zone2/localcw: No such file or directory
zoneadm: zone bluto-zone2 failed to verify
Now, I understand adding this step (mkdir -p
/zones/roots/bluto-zone2/localcw), before running the zoneadm -z
bluto-zone2 clone bluto-clone1) will allow the clone to work, but it
kind of defeats the purpose of the word CLONE. Clone to me for example
means whatever I have in this zone clone it, and I should have a
identical new zone with the same stuff just a new hostname and IP. I
shouldn't have to make the directory first in the ZONEPATH for it to
work. I would think the /zoneadm/ with the /clone/ option should be
smart enough to see that the directory /zones/roots/bluto-zone2/localcw
doesn't existed and create it since I'm telling it to create the zone
with theses identical attributes from the bluto-zone1.
If a customer has 50 lofs filesystems in the origainal zone, do we mean
they would need to run the mkdir command 50 times. That's just silly.
Am I missing something!! Or is this the way it's supposed to work for
now and it will be future releases
Cheers
Mark
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