Re: [zones-discuss] Sol 8 Branded Zone not booting

2010-12-07 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Val, Did you check content of your flar file ? Did you apply last flar patch on your S8 before creating ? Did you try to install your flar on a physical box ? Nico Le 7 déc. 2010 à 04:36, val a écrit : On a T5440 a10a_u8wos_08a 10/09

Re: [zones-discuss] ON SMB/NFS server support for non-global zones

2010-12-05 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 5 déc. 2010 à 15:14, Fabian R. Breschi a écrit : On 12/ 4/10 02:42 PM, Fabian R. Breschi wrote: Hello, I was trying to figure out how to overcome the not-supported native NFS service for non-global zones, any suggestions? You can't. Fine so, the only workaround, I gues,s is to

Re: [zones-discuss] ZFS ARC cache issue

2010-06-07 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
When I looked for references on ARC freeing algo, I did find some lines of codes talking about freeing ARC when memory is under pressure. Nice...but what could be memory under pressure in the kernel syntax ? Jumping from C lines to blogs to docsI went back

Re: [zones-discuss] moving a zone?

2010-05-23 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Thomas, Le 23 mai 2010 à 03:26, Thomas Burgess a écrit : Is it possible to move a zone from one server to another in opensolaris? I have a machine running b133 with a few zones, and i'd like to move them to a new machine running b134 Is there anyway to do this?

Re: [zones-discuss] svcadm not executing methods

2010-03-22 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Allan, Did you check your syslog ? Le 22 mars 2010 à 18:55, Allan a écrit : Hello, First off here's some system information: SunOS virt 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86xpv Solaris I'm running a two zones and neither will execute the /lib/svc/method/* scripts when

Re: [zones-discuss] svcadm not executing methods

2010-03-22 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 22 mars 2010 à 20:24, Allan a écrit : Hello, /var/log/syslog is empty and there are no files in /var/adm/log either. Any other logs you would like me to check? Try : # vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config ... # Syslog facility and level SyslogFacility auth LogLevel VERBOSE ... # vi

Re: [zones-discuss] capped-memory on a zone

2009-12-06 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Andrew, You could change the capped figures on a live zone with rcapdadm command (rcapadm -z zone -m value). http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/rcapadm-1m?a=view Remember to change also the zonecfg if you need to keep it permanent. Nicolas Le 5

Re: [zones-discuss] preferred way to image-update zones

2009-12-06 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 6 déc. 2009 à 03:21, Anil a écrit : It seems to be -U, looking at the source at least: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/zoneadm/zoneadm.c#attach_func -U seems to be a special (undocumented) update option. Take a look to the comment : === Undocumented

Re: [zones-discuss] zone 'from scratch'

2009-11-25 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 21 nov. 2009 à 08:31, nikolay a écrit : So the best way for me is 'downgrading' my OS (have no idea how to do this)??? What the f...k these containers are needed for? I have only one sparc workstation, so have no machine to install Solaris 9 (but it's crucial for some software I work

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up ZFS Memory Cache

2009-10-22 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi, Le 22 oct. 09 à 21:29, Sanjay Akula a écrit : Hi Users, I would like to allocate ZFS Memory Cache for my zfs file system. Can any one help me how to set up ZFS Memory Cache to my ZFS filesystems? What do you mean ? Did you check

Re: [zones-discuss] Difference between resource management attribbutes

2009-10-20 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Ketan, Le 20 oct. 09 à 19:20, Ketan a écrit : Can anyone answer my questions 1. Whats the difference between project.max-locked-memory and max- rss. locked memory is page of memory which can't be swapped by kernel...like share-mem. And out these 2 which is the preferred

Re: [zones-discuss] Ancestor filesystems writable by zone admin - by design?

2009-09-28 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 27 sept. 09 à 12:55, Miles Benson a écrit : Hi All, I'm not sure what I'm seeing is by design or by misconfiguration. I created a filesystem tank/zones to hold some zones, then created a specific zone filesystem tank/zones/basezone. Then built a zone, setting

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-07-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 2 juil. 09 à 15:46, Yanakiev, Vladimir a écrit : After removing NFS, we got yet another corruption - I just heard they use Samba on this file system. So, let me ask the question - Samba is supported in zone, running on LOFS - is this correct? Samba is user-land. AFAIK any userland tasks

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-07-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 2 juil. 09 à 16:47, Yanakiev, Vladimir a écrit : What about /dev/smb? Will it be created in the zone during install, or we have to use mknod for it? To my memories, /dev/ is read only in the zone. Also, what will happen, if /dev/smb is simply not there? Hu ? What's that ? Did you see

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-30 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 30 juin 09 à 16:13, Moore, Joe a écrit : William Roche wrote: Now about the automounter, I share Nico's point of view, but as far as I know nothing like that already exist, and No, the automounter or a mount request isn't 'clever' enough (or customized enough) yet to handle NFS data

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-30 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 30 juin 09 à 21:58, Glenn Faden a écrit : Excellent ! Sorry... Makes me angry. This should be added to the FAQ ! As already said by others, it's not perfect, as it should be set up in the global zone, but it's really better, better, better, better than the current answer.

Re: [zones-discuss] Forcing all FS traffic into a global zone

2009-06-30 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 1 juil. 09 à 01:48, Glenn Faden a écrit : Roman V Shaposhnik wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:00 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: The problem at hand is a reentrance issue in the VM. Could you, please, point me to the most authoritative CR that captures this issue? Hasn't it been

Re: [zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone?

2009-06-29 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Rob, Le 29 juin 09 à 18:01, Rob Mallory a écrit : Hi Niko, this thread had 150 hits in the last three weeks, the topic is in the FAQ since 2005, and the question comes about every 9 months or so. So it seems it would be a desired feature! Well, it's something that any

Re: [zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone?

2009-06-29 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 29 juin 09 à 18:37, John Lorenzon a écrit : The answer is no. 5065254 NFS/UFS deadlock when system is both NFS server and client We don't use UFS. ;-) Use LOFS. Easy to tell... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [zones-discuss] Can a non-global zone mount an NFS file system from its own global zone?

2009-06-11 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
You should give exact version. It's unsupported on S10. And any attempt to obtain a fix (even with some automagic automounter feature which would transform mount into a lofs) is returned as a NO WAY !. It would be fun to have some sort of survey to see how many people

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-05 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Many thanks Edward for your answer. Comments below. Le 5 juin 09 à 10:24, Edward Pilatowicz a écrit : On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:39:12AM +0200, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Le 5 juin 09 à 04:45, Edward Pilatowicz a écrit : ipkg seems to be a great advanced techno

Re: [zones-discuss] Commands to create a zone with r/w /sbin/usr?

2009-05-22 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
: limitpriv: scheduling-class: ip-type: shared zonecfg:mazone set zonepath=/export/zones/mazone RTFM man zonecfg 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman n...@unikservice.com / n...@guses.org Phone: +33 6 7981 4486 GoogleTalk: ndorfs...@gmail.com http://www.guses.org - French

Re: [zones-discuss] can't unset defrouter ?

2009-04-17 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
What about set defrouter='' ? Nicolas smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones, Solaris 10 and ZFS...do zones need to sit on rpool ?

2009-04-07 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 6 avr. 09 à 21:12, Paul Davis a écrit : 121430-33 (or higher) supports ZFS root with ZFS zonepaths (each in their own zpools). Been testing this extensively as a POC and it works, lucreate plus patching. This is a really GOOD NEWS !I just want to sing or dance, or anything like

[zones-discuss] Zones, Solaris 10 and ZFS...do zones need to sit on rpool ?

2009-04-06 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi all, I'm waiting for some patch to allow non-local zones to be located out of the rpool before upgrading my customer mainframe (s/mainframe/ sf15k/). Is there anybody here who knows if or when it'd be available ? TIA Nicolas

Re: [zones-discuss] resource pool for Zone

2009-03-07 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 7 mars 09 à 10:35, Anthony Yeung a écrit : Can we setup resource pool inside a Zone? You should. What do you try to do. Nicolas ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Question - Howto upgrade Solaris 8 or 9 in a branded zone to Solairs 10 - Anybody??

2009-02-27 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 27 févr. 09 à 23:05, Maidak Alexander J a écrit : I think Andrew was looking for how to upgrade the Solaris 8 system AFTER it had migrated to a container as you describe. As far as I'm aware there's nothing that can currently do this. In the future you'll be able to live upgrade the

Re: [zones-discuss] Question - Howto upgrade Solaris 8 or 9 in a branded zone to Solairs 10 - Anybody??

2009-02-26 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Andrew, Le 26 févr. 09 à 18:30, Andrew Dibbins a écrit : Hi, So we've encouraged people, to move away from native hardware running Solaris 8 or 9, to Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 containers running on top of Solaris 10. So how do we get from Solaris 8 containers. Do we have any

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones on ZFS root?

2009-02-26 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 26 févr. 09 à 15:47, Timothy Kennedy a écrit : Timothy Kennedy wrote: Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Which ACL model is then used ? From: System Administration Guide: Solaris 8 Containers ( http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-2914/gfjbk?a=view ) Using ZFS Although the zone cannot use

Re: [zones-discuss] Share a non-global zone folder

2009-02-20 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 20 févr. 09 à 15:53, Steffen Weiberle a écrit : On 02/19/09 16:26, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Le 19 févr. 09 à 17:41, Wolfgang Pungartnik a écrit : Asif, just mount and share the folder from the global zone. Loopback mount the folder into the non-global zone. And don't mount from non

Re: [zones-discuss] NTP client in non-global zone

2009-02-19 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 19 févr. 09 à 09:13, david.co...@sun.com a écrit : What is best practice here? Do not run {x}ntpd in the zones. Actually there is a use-case for doing so - given that it's a network-facing appliction, one might want to run xntpd in a non-global zone for isolation reasons. +1 It would

Re: [zones-discuss] NTP client in non-global zone

2009-02-19 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 19 févr. 09 à 14:02, James Carlson a écrit : Nicolas Dorfsman writes: Le 19 févr. 09 à 09:13, david.co...@sun.com a écrit : What is best practice here? Do not run {x}ntpd in the zones. Actually there is a use-case for doing so - given that it's a network-facing appliction, one might

Re: [zones-discuss] Share a non-global zone folder

2009-02-19 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 19 févr. 09 à 17:41, Wolfgang Pungartnik a écrit : Asif, just mount and share the folder from the global zone. Loopback mount the folder into the non-global zone. And don't mount from non-global to global thru NFS ! It's not supported ! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: [zones-discuss] Problem with Live Upgrade 8/07 - 10/08

2009-01-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi, Le 2 janv. 09 à 12:50, przemol...@poczta.fm a écrit : ERROR: unable to mount zones: zoneadm: zone 'gimli': /usr/lib/fs/lofs/mount /tmp/.luupgrade.inf. 27317/pool/gimli /tmp/.luupgrade.inf.27317/zones/gimli/lu/a/pool failed with exit Pool ? zonepath on ZFS ? If answer is

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone questions

2008-12-22 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
with...u5 I believe. *) Is there a way to cap the bandwidth of network interface? You need : 1) exclusive interfaces 2) QoS Nicolas 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman n...@unikservice.com / n...@guses.org Phone: +33 6 7981 4486 GoogleTalk: ndorfs...@gmail.com http

Re: [zones-discuss] Java out of memory error in a zone

2008-12-08 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 7 déc. 08 à 18:47, Nicolas Dorfsman a écrit : Le 7 déc. 08 à 18:26, Ian Matchett a écrit : Thanks However will prstat -Z tell me much in the zone? Good question. I need to check. Well. A sort of... prstat will give you SWAP and RSS used by YOUR zone. prtconf would give you memory

Re: [zones-discuss] Update on attach and upgrades

2008-12-08 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 6 nov. 08 à 20:30, Steve Lawrence a écrit : On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:20:43AM -0500, Dr. Hung-Sheng Tsao (LaoTsao) wrote: anyone know when the brandz for s10 will be out? e.g. running s10 with opensolaris zone? No target has been set for this. We cannot reasonably manage such a

Re: [zones-discuss] Update on attach and upgrades

2008-12-08 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
James, Thanks for your answer. Le 8 déc. 08 à 18:07, James Carlson a écrit : (If what you might be expecting here is someone to take the code private somehow, then I very much doubt that.) I'm just really surprised to see OpenSolaris and Enterprise in the same

Re: [zones-discuss] Java out of memory error in a zone

2008-12-07 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 7 déc. 08 à 18:26, Ian Matchett a écrit : Thanks However will prstat -Z tell me much in the zone? Good question. I need to check. Basic problem is the user did not know he was in a zone. Told me he had 32GB RAM. Sort of true... Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Hi Ian, Le 7 déc

Re: [zones-discuss] Any solaris native UI tool/WEB interface available to manage Solaris Containers/Zones?

2008-12-01 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi, Le 1 déc. 08 à 18:24, Challa, Narsimha Reddy (STSD-HYD) a écrit : Could anybody please let me know whether there are any solaris native tools zonecfg and zoneadm ? There's also zonemgr to help. or web interface available to manage solaris containers? Sun xVM something.

Re: [zones-discuss] OS Virtualization vs. Server Virtualization !!

2008-11-19 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
technology be considered as OS Virtualization? Can somebody clarify my doubt? Correct ! You could think of Solaris Containers as Solaris Zones + Solaris Resource Management. And...Solaris Zones are OS instances. Nicolas 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman Phone: +33 6

Re: [zones-discuss] static routes vs default routes (zones in different subnets)

2008-11-12 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi all, I'm pleased to read I'm not the sole victim of what I'm calling the solaris zone route bug. Please take a look below to my comment. Le 10 nov. 08 à 17:51, Tommy McNeely a écrit : On Nov 10, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Tommy

Re: [zones-discuss] opensolaris zones cookbook

2008-10-23 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 22 oct. 08 à 18:22, Jerry Jelinek a écrit : Zoram Thanga wrote: Hi Jerry, Jerry Jelinek wrote: 3) Zones are only supported in ZFS. This means that the zonepath must be a dataset. For example, if the zonepath for your zone is /export/zones/foo, then /export/zones must be a

Re: [zones-discuss] Somewhat unusual exclusive-IP type configuration needed

2008-10-20 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 20 oct. 08 à 16:58, Joe Barbey a écrit : I've got a situation that doesn't seem to be really covered in the various docs I've read up to now. I have a number of servers where I want to do something like the following, if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's not so

Re: [zones-discuss] Running Oracle Database inside Solaris 8/9 Container Using Sun Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 20 oct. 08 à 19:19, Eric Li a écrit : Our customers like to run existing Oracle database inside Solaris 8/9 container using Sun Cluster. Please kindly advise if - Is this configuration certified by Oracle? - Will it be supported by Oracle? - Will Sun Cluster support this? (Sun Cluster

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 2 oct. 08 à 21:00, Bruce, Phillip a écrit : If your logged into a container, how can your verify the name of the global zone running the container? You can't ! And this is a feature not a bug. Nicolas 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
://guses.org/ostls/ 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +33 6 7981 4486 Skype: ndorfsman ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi Mike, Le 2 oct. 08 à 21:47, Mike Gerdts a écrit : The overall availability of a server comes from a number of factors which include security and usability. If the level of separation that you are worried about is a critical factor, I'd suggest not using zones. They are good but

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
to the global zone for each of our local zones. That way we can `ssh www-zh zoneadm -z www reboot` easily. Interesting. Why don't ssh to the non-global ? `ssh www init 6` Nicolas 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +33 6

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Phillip, Le 2 oct. 08 à 22:38, Bruce, Phillip a écrit : Mike, Using zonecfg command can ONLY be used at the global zone level not at the container level. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/adm# zonecfg zonecfg can only be run from the global zone. What are you trying to do exactly ? The

Re: [zones-discuss] Confirming Zone running Container

2008-10-02 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 2 oct. 08 à 22:37, Moore, Joe a écrit : Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Personally, we've defined a DNS alias for zonename-vh to point to the global zone for each of our local zones. That way we can `ssh www-zh zoneadm -z www reboot` easily. Interesting. Why don't ssh to the non-global

Re: [zones-discuss] Can we create RAID 0 + 1 while doing jumpstart

2008-10-01 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
CC sysadmin...should be the correct list Le 1 oct. 08 à 16:11, Sanjay Akula a écrit : Can we create RAID 0 + 1 Volume(mirror) while doing jumpstart? need help on this Take a look to JET on : http://wikis.sun.com/display/JET JetSDS allow to encapsulate your disk on Jumpstart/install stage.

Re: [zones-discuss] Etude and VLAN tagging

2008-09-25 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
as exclusive interface for zones. Take a look to : http://blogs.sun.com/stw/entry/using_ip_instances_with_vlans http://www.solaris-fr.org/home/docs/base/reseau/vlan Nico 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman Phone: +33 6 7981 4486 Skype: ndorfsman http

Re: [zones-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Patch Strategy

2008-09-23 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 23 sept. 08 à 15:39, Jeff Victor a écrit : Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Hi all, My english should not good enough to make you understand. STOP please to write zonepath on ZFS is supported. Everytime you say that, the next sentence is to say but with limitations, blabla

Re: [zones-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Patch Strategy

2008-09-22 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Le 22 sept. 08 à 14:33, Jeff Victor a écrit : Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Le 22 sept. 08 à 11:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : While U6 has many significant enhancements, most notably ZFS Root/ Boot, it is likely that Zones on ZFS will only be fully supported in U7. This is incredible

Re: [zones-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Patch Strategy

2008-09-22 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
right to say zfs for zonepath is supported ? Send a survey to support teams in regions, I would be curious to see the result. No, you can't continue, please ! Give us zfs zonepath ! Nicolas 01010101 01001110 01001001 01011000 Nicolas Dorfsman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [zones-discuss] Non-interactive zone creation

2007-11-08 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Thanks Shawn for mentioning the Zone Manager! Thanks for mentioning..and thanks for the tool itself. Just for everyone's info, I have been working a long time now on the next version which I hope to release in beta form soon. The new version incorporates many contributions from ideas of

[zones-discuss] Non-interactive zone creation

2007-11-06 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi all, Is there anyone here working on something able to create/configure/boot a zone without interactivity ? I tried to update create_zone.sh but it's a little bit hard to maintain it in shell. So, an alternative would be to create a brand new one in Perl...or to work on something different

[zones-discuss] Default class (FSS/TS), zone.cpu-share and default shares

2007-05-16 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi, I'm currently working on implementation of RM on non-local zones. Facts: - Global zone is only used to manage/admin hardware and zones - We don't currently need/want to use processor sets Questions : 1) Do I need to define the default scheduler class as FSS if I want to use cpu-shares on