On 01/14/10 11:28 PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Dave Miner<dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote: >> On 01/12/10 04:16 AM, sanjay nadkarni (Laptop) wrote: >>> >>> Caimanics, >>> Please review the requirements documents for replication in >>> OpenSolaris. This provides the the Flash type functionality but >>> includes support for zones. >>> >> >> Intro: >> >> I don't think there's anything preventing zones from being included in a >> master image created by DC and deployed by the GUI or text installer. >> Getting the zones configured correctly after deployment of the image is >> likely an entirely manual process, but otherwise I don't know of a reason >> this couldn't work. To me, the main reason replication is desired is that > > Why does configuring zones after deployment have to be a manual > process? This has actually been one of the biggest weaknesses with > the management of zones since their introduction. That is, jumpstart > has long been available allowing me to provision global zones from a > standard configuration. With finish scripts you can have a fully > functional system after an unattended automated installation. With > Solaris 10 zones, I had to do a lot of work to get zone provisioning > to this level. Are you really saying that I need to adapt the work > that I did to fully automate zone builds in Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris? >
No, I'm not saying that at all. The comment was really taking issue with the correctness of the statement, not whether zone provisioning is a requirement. Dave
