On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Nathan mentioned Solaris 10 branded zones in the announcement to one of > our recent meetings (I haven't been for a few months) - was this > discussed in any detail at all?
Not yet. We've done Solaris 8/9 branded zones, but nothing specifically around 10 branded zones. The overall concept is pretty much the same. http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zones/s10brand_dev_guide http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+s10brand/ > something together ... I'd be happy enough to play with this myself > (since I seem to have lemming-like disregard for danger sometimes) but > definitely not for even semi-serious work ... If just oinking around at home, I'd tend to say using OpenSolaris would be the suitably lazy option. For something more, you can buy an OpenSolaris support contract these days ;-) > Has anyone had a chance to play with this? Please don't tell me that > it's due for release in the next drop of the OS or I'll cry. I asked the usual suspects about it, hoping to get an excuse to make you cry - but the only response I got was laughter and cackles. I wouldn't bet on it being backported any time soon, since the driving force - actual incompatibility - isn't there. Hang on - updates - the laughter has been replaced with a serious reply that it's not on the plan. Bummer. For our home viewers, it should be noted that while 8 and 9 branded zones have been SPARC-only, 10 branded zones will target x86 as well. And another clarification just came in: "hey, not just any old laughter, but maniacal laughter, tyvm", followed by the more serious answer: "S10C is a feature for Solaris Next which is designed to assist customers 10 Updates to Solaris Next. so backporting it to an S10 Update makes no sense" Now, for something that might be helpful, you probably want to have a snuffle around the p2v tools. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6667924 Perhaps you could do some investigating around p2v tools and report back to this list with your findings? Share and enjoy! -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: andre at purplecow.org jabber: andre at interact.purplecow.org purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org
