On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Elsgaard <thomas.elsga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I have 2 SUN sparc machines that i would like to consolidate to one > machine using the zone/container concept, but the application requires > a different version of solaris 10 than the one installed on the host > server, how can i handle this? > > Application requires: Solaris 10 10/08
Is this a hard requirement, or "must be at least ..." requirement? Are you ever able to apply patches on top of Solaris 10 10/08? For the vast majority of applications, Solaris 10 10/08 + a bunch of patches is indistinguishable from Solaris 10 5/09. Any application that has a hard requirement for Solaris 10 10/08 (without any patches, updates, or upgrades) is not an application you can afford to have attached to a machine attached to the network. > > And my host machine where i would like to have the applications to run > in a zone is running Solaris 10 5/09 > > Is there anyway that i can have a zone runing 10 10/08 on the global > zone where the server is running 10 5/09 ? and how is this done? My guess is that the right way forward for you is to install a box with Solaris 10 10/09 on a box, then use update on attach to migrate your 10 10/08 and 10 5/09 boxes to the current release that is all patched up (minus a late breaking Sun Alert or two). Others have mentioned using the S10 brand that is part of an upcoming OpenSolaris release. I think that I read that this is first supported with Solaris 10 10/09, so it would be of no use to you. LDoms would likely work just fine, but you should consider whether there is really a significant difference between Solaris 10 10/08 + patches to address reliability and security issues compared to Solaris 10 10/09. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
