>The one thing that I think that I forgot to mention was the need for a >mechanism to turn a legacy release (e.g. Solaris 9) into a Solaris >zone. I'm not talking BrandZ... let's not start that thread again. >:) In VMware world, P2V is a very important tool with astounding ROI. > Solaris needs a tool like that.
Do you mean just the configuration or really unpack all of the flar and run that? Unfortunately, that does not work as we've discussed earlier; the S8/S9 runtime does not run on the S10/S11 kernel. We always remove unused code from the kernel; this includes the support for old threads as well as the updated kernel/library thread interfaces. The argument for this feature appears to invariably be something like "no support for package X from vendor Y on releases later than 8 or 9". If we build a Solaris 8/9 zone on S10/11, what makes people think that those products will be supported when running in such a zone? And how would this conceptually be different from running product X on Solaris 10/11 anyway? Casper
