I would also try it without the /zones mountpoint. Putting the zone root dir on an alternate mountpoint caused problems for us. Try creating /datastore/zones for a zone root home, or just make the zones in /datastore
Solaris seems to get very easily confused when zone root is anything out of the ordinary ( and it really bites you at patch time!) On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > On 12/ 7/11 05:12 AM, Mark Creamer wrote: >> I'm running OI 151a. I'm trying to create a zone for the first time, and am >> getting an error about zfs. I'm logged in as me, then su - to root before >> running these commands. >> >> I have a pool called datastore, mounted at /datastore >> >> Per the wiki document http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+in+zones, I >> first created the zfs file system (note that the command syntax in the >> document appears to be wrong, so I did the options I wanted separately): >> >> zfs create datastore/zones >> zfs set compression=on datastore/zones >> zfs set mountpoint=/zones datastore/zones >> >> zfs list shows: >> >> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT >> datastore 28.5M 7.13T 57.9K /datastore >> datastore/dbdata 28.1M 7.13T 28.1M /datastore/dbdata >> datastore/zones 55.9K 7.13T 55.9K /zones >> rpool 27.6G 201G 45K /rpool >> rpool/ROOT 2.89G 201G 31K legacy >> rpool/ROOT/openindiana 2.89G 201G 2.86G / >> rpool/dump 12.0G 201G 12.0G - >> rpool/export 5.53M 201G 32K /export >> rpool/export/home 5.50M 201G 32K /export/home >> rpool/export/home/mcreamer 5.47M 201G 5.47M /export/home/mcreamer >> rpool/swap 12.8G 213G 137M - >> >> Then I went about creating the zone: >> >> zonecfg -z zonemaster >> create >> set autoboot=true >> set zonepath=/zones/zonemaster >> set ip-type=exclusive >> add net >> set physical=vnic0 >> end >> exit >> >> That all goes fine, then... >> >> zoneadm -z zonemaster install >> >> which returns... >> >> ERROR: the zonepath must be a ZFS dataset. >> The parent directory of the zonepath must be a ZFS dataset so that the >> zonepath ZFS dataset can be created properly. >> > That's odd, it should have worked. > >> Since the zfs dataset datastore/zones is created, I don't understand what >> the error is trying to get me to do. Do I have to do: >> >> zfs create datastore/zones/zonemaster >> >> before I can create a zone in that path? That's not in the documentation, so >> I didn't want to do anything until someone can point out my error for me. >> Thanks for your help! >> > You shouldn't have to, but it won't do any harm. > > If you don't get any further, try zones-discuss. > > -- > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
