On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > There are updates posted to the Caiman Unified Design Page. Specifically, > addition of a description of this project, an overview of the deliverables > expected. > > Project web page: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/CUD > > Also, we posted a new document: > > Current Caiman Components: common and redundant functionality(with > differences noted): > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/CUD/caiman_common.pdf > > This document describes the areas of common and overlapping functionality > offered by the current Caiman components, grouped in functionality groups. > The differences are also noted for completeness and to ensure that during > the design phase we account for these. > > We are currently working on a draft document that will list the requirements > for a Caiman unified install engine. This will be posted to the alias and we > will have a meeting to discuss these next week. > > Please review the new document and send feedback and questions to the alias.
Things that seem to be missing are the ips brand zone installer and the text-based installer. Perhaps this is because they do not have current implementations under the Caiman brand. However, I think that it is important that continued work in this area try to unify them into a consistent architecture. The historical lack of an automated installer for zones (e.g. "jumpstart for zones") has inspired many custom implementations. zonemgr - http://mydataexchange.net/zonemgr/ JetZONES - http://wikis.sun.com/display/JET/Home NewZone - http://unixsysadmin.net/2008/06/24/quick-and-easy-way-to-build-solaris-10-solaris-express-zones/ Consolidation tool - http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/consolidation_tool_release_info I have heard through the grapevine that a key reason for not implementing zones has been the lack of a standard automated installation tool included with Solaris. Currently the ipkg brand has its own text-based installer[1], if you would like to call it that. 1. http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/src/brand/pkgcreatezone I suspect (but do not know) that its command line arguments bear little to no resemblance to the Caiman install tools. There seems to be work scheduled for a vmdk-ish[2] implementation of zones. I can't help but think that this should look nearly identical to something created by the distro constructor. But just because it is created inside of some tricked-out lofi device doesn't mean that it is all that special. Presumably the traditional ips zone installer and the new vmdk-ish zone installer should be leveraging the same good work that is done for the GUI, AI, DC, libbe, and the text installer. 2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zones-discuss/2009-May/005032.html -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
