Moving a Solaris Zone from one server to another

Hello,
I have a Solaris 8 zone running on a server. It is running on a ZFS file system. The hardware that it is running on is no longer under support contract, so we want to move it to our newer solaris hardware that still has support.
I have done a lot of looking around and can't find a definite answer.
The zone was created by a flash archive and installed to a ZFS file system. Worked like a champ and was fairly easy to do.
However, I want to take this zone, halt it, and then export the zfs file system to a new server. Let me know if this sounds like it will work...
newglobal# zfs create zones/temp -o sharenfs=on
oldglobal# zoneadm -z zone halt
oldglobal# mount -F nfs newglobal:/zones/temp /net
oldglobal# tar -cf /net/zone.tar /zones/zone
oldglobal# zonecfg -z zone export -f /net/zone.cfg
newglobal# zfs create zones/zone -o quota=10g
newglobal# tar -xf /zones/temp/zone.tar /zones/zone
newglobal# mv /zones/zone/zone/root ../../
newglobal# mv /zones/zone/zone/dev ../../
newglobal# zonecfg -z zone -f /zones/temp/zone.cfg
newglobal# zoneadm -z zone attach -F
newglobal# /usr/lib/brand/solaris8/s8_p2v zone
newglobal# zoneadm -z zone boot
Does this seem feasible? I really don't want to create another flar of this server if I don't have to.

I basically did what I said I would from my first post and it worked like a champ.
I created the zfs mount point, ran the tar command, moved it via nfs to the next server, untarred it to the new zone zfs space,
exported the zone cfg from the original host, modified it so that it had the correct zonepath, and network devices for the new host, imported the config with zonecfg -z zone -f /tmp/zone.cfg. I then attached the zone with zoneadm -z zone attach -F. I then ran /usr/lib/brand/solairs8/s8_p2v zone and it installed all the patches required for it and then I ran zoneadm -z zone boot and it came right up and worked like a charm.
Thanks for all the info you guys gave me.
Edited by: mbunixadm on Nov 3, 2009 11:38 AM

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