Thanks a lot for the response! Also for the good idea about not starting the template at all. Have a nice day, alexander.
2008/12/13, Konstantin Gremliza <konstan...@gremliza.net>: > Hi Alexander > > Alexander Skwar schrieb: >> >> Hi. >> >> I'd like to create a NGZ on a S10U6 system. Actually, I'd like to create >> a number of NGZ's on this host and the NGZs don't differ much. So >> I thought that it should be possible to create a "template" NGZ where >> the zone root is on a ZFS. >> >> Then I think it should somehow be possible to use ZFS snapshots >> and clones. Ie. a snapshot of the zone root should be created, it >> should be promoted to a clone and this clone should be used as the >> zone root for a new NGZ. When first booting, I'd run a sys-unconfig, >> reboot again and enter valid data (or modify the files touched by >> sys-unconfig myself and safe me one boot). Afterwards, the >> zone XML file in /etc would need to be modified to "cheat" the system >> into thinking that this new NGZ is properly configured. > > All correct. If you do not start the "template" NGZ for the first time, you > could directly clone that one without sys-unconfig the targets. > >> >> Or does zoneadm maybe support this from itself? If so, what would >> be the correct way of using zoneadm? Is the manpage at >> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/zoneadm-1m?l=de&a=view >> the current man page (or at least the one that is valid for S10U6)? >> And if that's so, would the following be the correct way of doing >> things? >> >> # zoneadm -z template-zone halt >> # zfs snapshot zones/templ...@2008-12-13 >> # zoneadm -z target clone -s zones/templ...@2008-12-13 template-zone >> >> >> Would that be correct? >> > No. Opensolaris can directly clone zones using ZFS snapshots. Solaris up to > 10u6 cannot. The manpage for 10u6 is more advanced than the command. > Do not forget to create a unique identifier when cheating /etc/zones/index. > Copy a valid uid and modifiy a bit. It only has to be unique. > > Konstantin > >> Thanks a lot, >> >> Alexander >> >> ________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> zones-discuss mailing list >> zones-discuss@opensolaris.org >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >> signature database 3687 (20081212) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> > > > -- Von meinen Mobilgerät aus gesendet Alexander -- [ Chat => Jabber: alexw...@jabber80.com | Gmail: a.sk...@gmail.com ] [ Mehr => MSN: alexw...@live.de | Yahoo!: askwar | ICQ: 350677419 ] _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
