Re: solaris 8 VM on T41 Sparc server?

Hi Eze ,
I have a customer with a similar requirement where customer has Solaris 8 (2/02 , 7/03) and Solaris 9 (4/04, 12/03, 9/05) installed as physical servers which needs to be virtualized (P2V) , is it possible to run them as branded zone on solaris 10 or solaris 11 ? Would applications compatibility be risked and would there be any fine points to remember for these conversions.
Thanks
Arun

Hello
sol8 and sol9 physical servers can be in a brandz zone only in sol10 (sol11 can't have sol8 nor sol9 brandz). In general the applications usually works fine.
But I would suggest to try to migrate that applications to sol10 or sol11, as sol8 and sol9 are very old OS and now that your customer is thinking in moving forward could be a time to do.
Regards
Eze

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secondly, legacy zones only work with solaris 10, isit possible to make a solaris 10 VM and then run a legacy zone inside of that ( similar to nested VMs)?
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Hello
You are right in
Solaris 8 , can only be virtulized in a solaris 10 GZ doing a sol8 brand zone. So you can create a ldom guest with solaris 10 and put and brandz solaris 8 zone.
this doc can help you if you do it
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I'm trying to install the perl modules needed by my applications in a sparc server SunFire V210 with solaris 9 64bit. All the attempts fail because the interpreter is compiled with forte, this is the explanation i got. I found a solution in CPAN called perlgcc but it doesn't work it build a bad Makefile, the file has a lot of mistakes. Perl.com people tell me to change parameters in the makefiles and Config.pm but it's very hard to find the correct values, i'm not sure i fix the correct things.still it doesn't work.
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Hi,
Here is your solution (I hope). I've being doing this this week and worked.
Look the stuff is connected with the compilers used to complie perl and as you see later other stuff on the sun. At the sun the stuff is compiled with sun compiler which is not provided on the solaris 8, 9 nor 10. Fortunately there is gcc installed on the sol10.
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gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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More
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More
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f
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
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alignbytes=8, prototype=define
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libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
gnulibc_version=''
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1. Logon as a root
2. Check your path and compare with
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/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/s fw/include:/opt/sfw:
/opt/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/include:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr /ccs/lib
-bash-3.00#
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gcc --version<br />
perl -V
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o conf makepl_arg 'CC=gcc CCCDLFLAGS=-fPIC CCFLAGS=" " OPTIMIZE=" " LD=gcc' press return
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I hope it will help you
good luck

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Can i install Solaris 8.0 on SUN SPARC 5 machines ?
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01 07 40 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
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When         Type         Busy     Phys_Id
c2                             connected    unconfigured unknown
unavailable scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@500/pci@0/pci@c/pci@0/LSILogic,scsi@8:scsi
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rmt/0            Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
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