Anon Y Mous wrote:
But this is fairly far from the Zones-discuss topic.
I respectfully disagree, I think this is part of the Zones-discuss topic.
The whole reason people want a minimal OpenSolaris install is to have a global zone with
nothing running in it (except for maybe an SSH server
But this is fairly far from the Zones-discuss topic.
I respectfully disagree, I think this is part of the Zones-discuss topic.
The whole reason people want a minimal OpenSolaris install is to have a global
zone with nothing running in it (except for maybe an SSH server and an internal
Jeff Victor wrote:
Seriously, it would be helpful for Sun to understand the advantages of
a release that doesn't have a GUI as an option. In other words, what
problems are caused by the existence of the GUI software (besides
wasted disk space)?
Instead of a separate distro, perhaps it would
I know some of you guys are chuckling at my statements thinking well, maybe
his postfix and apache and BIND / named servers don't have a windowing
environment, but Oracle needs X-windows. Well, actually it's possible to
install Oracle without using X-windows on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (see
Rats. This post was supposed to be below my other two older posts in the forum,
not above them. My bad.
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In the days of packages and Solaris 10 (i.e., what is used now
and will be for quite a while)...
A) Much less time to install and instantiate whole root zones
if you get rid of a lot of dross. This includes service instantiation.
Less disk space used for the zone. Disk space savings of
Instead of a separate distro, perhaps it would be simpler for
everybody if there was a no-GUI server installation option that
simply doesn't install the GUI tools. Would that meet your needs?
Thanks for the quick response Jeff!
We also already did have a discussion about having a minimal
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Peter Tribblepeter.trib...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Alexander Skwar alexanders.mailinglists+nos...@gmail.com writes:
What he plans can be done easily using NGZ (non-global zones).
An NGZ also adds
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Anon Y Mousno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote:
One thing I've found to be true though: either a machine is all zoned, or
not.
It gets horribly confusing to have real activity in the global zone,
where you can half see the non-global zones, so if you have zones
One thing I've found to be true though: either a machine is all zoned, or not.
It gets horribly confusing to have real activity in the global zone,
where you can half see the non-global zones, so if you have zones
on a machine then it's easier to run nothing in the global zone and
just use
After reading only a little about zones.. I doubt I really get the
expected usage one might put a zone to.
My case is very homespun just a home lan with at most... 6
machines.
1 vista(laptop) 3 winXP 1 linux 1 Opensolaris (2009.6 still using b111)
I've been mainly a linux user until
May be use vbox or xen in opensolarris
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From: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com
Sent: 14/7/'09, 7:35
After reading only a little about zones.. I doubt I really get the
expected usage one might put a zone to.
My case is very homespun just a home lan with at
Why?
What he plans can be done easily using NGZ (non-global zones).
An NGZ also adds just a little bit of overhead (if any at all) to the
system - unlike vbox.
What would be the gain of using a more complex technology like
vbox/xen in comparison to NGZs?
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 13:42, Dr
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote:
After reading only a little about zones.. I doubt I really get the
expected usage one might put a zone to.
My case is very homespun just a home lan with at most... 6
machines.
1 vista(laptop) 3 winXP 1 linux 1
Alexander Skwar alexanders.mailinglists+nos...@gmail.com writes:
What he plans can be done easily using NGZ (non-global zones).
An NGZ also adds just a little bit of overhead (if any at all) to the
system - unlike vbox.
So you're saying a zone to handle all backup work is a sensible way to
go
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