On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:12 +1100, "Andre van Eyssen" <andre at purplecow.org> wrote: > 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 ;-)
yeah, looks like the OpenSolaris s10brand project is humming along nicely, although some of the stuff described in the dev guide does make it a little clearer as to why this might be a headache ... > > 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. ah, however the question I should have asked was 'is it available in 0509?' in which case sounds of disconsolate sobbing will be heard momentarily ... > 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. interesting ... > 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" ah well, at least I made someone happy ... :) > 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 hmmm ... promising, however this is Solaris on Solaris ... > Perhaps you could do some investigating around p2v tools and report back > to this list with your findings? will do ... -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally mjch at mjch.net left blank
