Paul Kraus wrote: > All, > Sorry if this is repetitious, but I did a quick search of the > archives and did not see this. I have a sparse zone running on a 10U2 > system and I need to migrate it to a system running 10U3. I know that > you are not supposed to force the import if the two systems do not > match, but I thought I read that a new feature was coming that would > permit an import to update the zone to the new OS level. Is that out > (or available as a patch) ? > > Or is there a manual method I could use to update the packages > and patches on the sparse zone when moving it ? I am thinking along > the lines of the following: > > 1) shut down "old" zone > 2) copy old zone to new template zone (already created on new system > but not installed) > 3) diff the package and patch info under /var/sadm to see how the > copied zone differs from the OS on the new system > 4) apply packages and patches only to the new zone root as necessary > to bring it into alignment with the OS on the new system > 5) import patched new zone into the new system > > .... or am I just out of luck and I can't get the zone into alignment > with the new system. > > The new system is already up and running, with a couple sparse zones > already, so I can't just install it to match the old system. The DBA > need to free up resources on the old server, which is why this zone is > moving. > > Hi basically you'll need to have the "old" zone at the same patch/package level, a zoneadm attach should tell you what is out of sync. So you'll have to patch the old system to same level as new system. Basically as a starting point the Kernel Patches will need to be identical, ie 118833-36 on both systems, 118833-33 was the Ku in u3, but rev 36 was the only Ku released that will satisfy this. So both systems will need 118833-36.
Make sure to install the latest rev of patch utils before any patching operation ( 119254/119255 ) Enda Enda _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
