Problem with exporting devices to non-global zone

Question

Hi,
I've problem with exporting devices to my solaris zones (i try do add support to mount /dev/lofi/* in my non-global zone).
A create cfg for my zone.
Here it is:
$ zonecfg -z sapdev info
zonename: sapdev
zonepath: /export/home/zones/sapdev
brand: native
autoboot: true
bootargs:
pool:
limitpriv: default,sys_time
scheduling-class:
ip-type: shared
fs:
dir: /sap
special: /dev/dsk/c1t44d0s0
raw: /dev/rdsk/c1t44d0s0
type: ufs
options: []
net:
address: 194.29.128.45
physical: ce0
device
match: /dev/lofi/1
device
match: /dev/rlofi/1
device
match: /dev/lofi/2
device
match: /dev/rlofi/2
attr:
name: comment
type: string
value: "This is SAP developement zone"
global# lofiadm
Block Device File
/dev/lofi/1 /root/SAP_DB2_9_LUW.iso
/dev/lofi/2 /usr/tmp/fsfile
I reboot the non-global zone, even reboot global-zone, and after that, in sapdev zone, there is no /dev/*lofi/* files.
What i do wrong? Maybe I reduce my sol 10 u4 sparc instalation too much.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks for help,
Marek

Answer 1

I experienced the same problem on my system Sol 10 08/07.
Normally, when the zone enters the READY state during boot, it's zoneadmd will run devfsadm -z <zone>. In my understanding this is to create the necessary device files in ZONEPATH/dev.
This worked well until recently. Now only the directories are still created.
It seems as if devfsadm -z is broken. Somebody should issue a call to sun.
As a workaround you can easily copy the device files into the zone. It is important not to copy the symbolic link but the target.
# cp /dev/lofi/1 ZONEPATH/dev/lofi
Hope this helps,
Konstantin Gremliza