Jerry Jelinek wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> What happens with the hostid on x86 ? when a p2v is done ? Does the >> hostid of the created zone match the hostid of the original host ? > > Darren, > > No, by default a zone's hostid is the same as the global zones > hostid, unless the zone is configured to use a different hostid > as per: > > PSARC/2008/647 Configurable Hostids for Non-Global Zones > > The hostid is more of a zone configuration issue so it is > very possible that as part of the process of consolidating > a physical system into a zone, you would want to configure > the original hostid onto the zone.
Given this case is about physical to virtual I fully expected the hostid of the zone to match the physical machine in the default case. In fact I think I'd almost insist on that being the case unless you can explain why it is bad to do this (I can only see good from it as it eases the migration from apps running on the physical machine dependent on its hostid to running in the zone). I think requiring an explicit step to enable to hostid to machine when doing a p2v is unnecessary and will lead to confusion. -- Darren J Moffat
