On 5/21/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > > >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?
Sigh... I tried to avoid the brandZ discussion. I was really after a much easier problem, which I thought that I had articulated but I guess I need to try again. I want to take a "global zone" be it Solaris 10 or an earlier release (within reason) and turn it into a local zone. Most likely the course of action would be: 1) Get the bits from an old machine onto a new machine (flarcreate then lucreate or similar). 2) Upgrade those bits on the new machine to bits that are compatible with the global zone of the new machine. 3) Finally, boot this new zone on the new machine. The bits inside that zone would include a mixture of the "current" release of solaris (current == same as global zone) and some legacy application installation. In other words, this would be a path for getting some application that is "too hard" to install fresh into a new zone into that new zone. "Too hard" could be because the installation media was lost, everyone that knows anything about that application is gone (downsized, promoted + lobotomy, etc.), or there are just too many machines that need to be consolidated to do it in another manner. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
