Margot H. Miller wrote: > James, > > I appreciate the condensed version of highlights and the issues. > This has been a great discussion thread. > > Under the section, "Why not use zones", it states that an > approach that works on multiple Solaris releases and other > operating systems is desirable. If we were just talking > ONLY about Solaris 10, would zones solve the user install problem? > A zone is created for each user and they own the zone and > can do what they want- install, run applications, etc. > > THe problem you quoted here wrt zones is that an IP address > is allocated for each zone. I thought I read that this is no > longer the case with the recent Solaris builds?
That is possible when using Trusted Extensions. In theory it is possible without turning on Trusted Extensions functionality but I don't think anyone has tried this yet. > The arguments against zones are: > > - possible need of IP address > - communication needed between administrators needed You ALWAYs need communication between admins otherwise you end up with chaos. > - a Solaris only solution > - a Solaris 10 only solution So what ? This is Solaris we are talking about on opensolaris.org :-) If you can't have support from the OS then there is no reasonable solution other than something like a zip file. -- Darren J Moffat
