Hi Mike, Thank you for your feedback. Comments inline...
> 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. > Ok, good point. I will take a look at include overlapping functionality in our document from these two products. > 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. > I will look at these as well. Thank you for pointing these out. > 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 > > I will look at this as well. And ask Jerry Jelinek what he knows about this. Thanks again for the input! sarah
