Upgrading Solaris with Zones installed

So Solaris 5/09 was released. Previously I have upgraded Solaris the simplest way by simply downloading the DVD, throwing it in and running the upgrade. However that was before we started using the zones feature and I'm not sure if there is anything special I have to take into account now.
They're simply native zones. Is there anything special I have to do or will the simple disk upgrade work still?

Upgrading 10/08 to 5/09, including zones, should be very clean, with or without Live Upgrade. The advantage is Live upgrade is minimal downtime and a safe backout if the upgrade does cause something to break. If you use ZFS root filesystems, it is even easier and 'wastes' very little disk space.
Mark

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Upgrading Solaris with Zones

I have just found the following statement in the Solaris 10 Install Guide, section "Upgrade Limitations":
"If you have configured Solaris Zones on your system, you are not able to upgrade until you have unconfigured and uninstalled your non-global zones"
I have a serious problem with this limitation. It seems to be impossible to upgrade a Solaris 10 system with zones configured. I would have to shut down and uninstall my zones and applications to upgrade the OS.
There's not even a way to move the affected zones to another system to keep the application running if the host with the global zone needs maintenance due to OS upgrade, HW maintenance or if simply has too many zones configured on it and all resources are exhausted.
With these limitations I don't see much reasonable use for zones. In particular, once a zone and an application is set up on a physical box with a particular OS release I am stuck with it for all times.
How are you going to solve these problems. And when? What are zones good for in the current implementation? I am still waiting for convincing arguments to use zones ...

I guess I'll state for the record, lest anyone should be confused by my last post, that LiveUpgrade doesn't allow upgrade anymore. I guess I got away with it before LU was upgraded to restrict such activity.
ERROR: Unable to upgrade boot environment <Solaris10-B58>.
INFORMATION: Boot environment <Solaris10-B58> has one or more non-global
zones installed. This version of Live Upgrade cannot upgrade a boot
Guess I'd better figure out how to backup my zones so I clean remove them. A simple tar will probly do the trick for now.
benr.

Solaris Express Zone install error with SUNWiiimr and SUNWcnetr

Hi all,
I got these errors when installing a new zone on a Solaris Express 1/08 (5.11) on a x64 box:
Installation of these packages generated errors: SUNWiiimr
Installation of these packages generated warnings: SUNWcnetr
The zone creation log shows:
*** package -SUNWiiimr- failed to install with fatal errors:
/export/zones/newzone/root/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWiiimr/install/postin stall: /export/zones/newzone/root/lib/postrun: not found
/export/zones/newzone/root/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWiiimr/install/postinstall: /export/zones/newzone/root/lib/postrun: not found
pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
Installation of -SUNWiiimr- on zone -newzone- failed.
*** package -SUNWcnetr- installed with warnings:
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm-.
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
ERROR: attribute verification of -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm/aggregation.conf- failed
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
ERROR: attribute verification of -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm/linkprop.conf- failed
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
ERROR: attribute verification of -/export/zones/newzone/root/etc/dladm/secobj.conf- failed
owner name -dladm- not found in passwd table(s)
Installation of -SUNWcnetr- on zone -newzone- partially failed.
-newzone- was configured to be a whole root zone. Are there any ways to solve these installation errors?
Thanks in advance.

This problem seems some strange - this time with Solaris 10u4, from 10 containers installed on a brand new X2200 (2x cpu) only one do not output those errors, but just this one cannot install the dsee or proxy. This time the errors were from:
Installation of <SUNWxwplr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWdtdmr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWmconr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWrmwbr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWlvmr> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
Installation of <SUNWzebrar> on zone <dsee-proxy> partially failed.
So the machine was, too, just installed. After several hours, anoter atempt to install a zone, this time just this one, returned no errors - and the dsee installed without any complains. All configurations were for whole root zones. Used was Solaris 10u4 with the most recent patch cluster applied.

Can't Upgrade Bootcamp With Leopard Install Disc

Hi Everyone,
I just installed Leopard and wanted to upgrade my Bootcamp partition. However, when I start up in Windows and then try to install the new version, all it does is hang at Marvell Ethernet (which is the first driver to be installed). Now, one thing may be the problem--the drive that I am currently using to start my Mac-let's call it Drive 2, is not the same drive that Bootcamp is installed on, which is Drive 1. I wouldn't see how that could be a problem because I'm starting up in Windows, not from the Mac. Anyway, any suggestions? Thanks.

That isn't the original install disc as the one that came with the computer would be Grey in color, a very drab looking disc, however, if that was purchased from Apple and not a copy of another disc with just a label stuck on it, it should work. However, if the disc were damaged then you would have the same problem you are having. I would try to see if you can get another disc and try that (If you know someone that might have one). If that doesn't work, then take it to a Genius Bar and have them look at it, they may be able to help you out.

How to upgrade solaris with disk under ODS

upgrade wsolaris

Robert,
I am just worried about what might happen, if our internal SSD should fail. The system files, your user settings, mail boxes, everything in your user library and system library, the installed applications, plug-ins, Aperture presets, etc. From what you are describing, you are taking good care of your documents, but the system itself and the work you are putting into configuring it is not backed up. Should your system drive crash you would have a hard time to recover from that.
The easiest way to backup your system drive and the internal HD2 would be to use one of your 3TB drives with Time Machine. You need not necessarily Time Capsule to be able to do that. Time Machine can work with any external disk, that is formatted MacOS X extended.
Just plug in the backup drive you want to use, then open "System Preferences" and click the Time Machine icon.
Click the "Select Backup Disk" button.
Enable "Show Time Machine in Menu Bar".
Click the "Options" Button. If your backup drive is not large enough to include your Aperture library, deselect the other external drives in the "Options" panel. You may even deselect the second internal drive, if you are backing that up differently and only want to create a backup of the system. Then a small 500GB drive should suffice to get you started with system backups. But backing up both internal drives at once using TimeMachine would be much preferable.
Then set the switch to "on".
The first backup may take a very long time, but it will run in the background, so let it run.
Léonie

Possible to upgrade Solaris 9 branded zone to 10?

We have an application running in a Solaris 9 branded zone. The application version is not compatible with Solaris 10, however, the next version of the application is compatible with Solaris 10.
So the plan is to upgrade the application in the branded zone, then upgrade the branded zone to Solaris 10.
All the reading I have found so far indicates that it is not possible to upgrade a Solaris 9 branded zone to !0.
Can it be done, and if so, pointers to a documented process would be helpful.

fog-on-the-tyne wrote:
We have an application running in a Solaris 9 branded zone. The application version is not compatible with Solaris 10, however, the next version of the application is compatible with Solaris 10.
So the plan is to upgrade the application in the branded zone, then upgrade the branded zone to Solaris 10.If the next version is compatible with Solaris 10 then backup the data,
create a new Solaris 10 zone
install the new version into the zone
migrate the data
test
destroy the now unnecessary Solaris 9 branded zone.
For something like this play in a dev environment first.
alan

Live upgrade - solaris 8/07 (U4) , with non-global zones and SC 3.2

Dears,
I need to use live upgrade for SC3.2 with non-global zones, solaris 10 U4 to Solaris 10 10/09 (latest release) and update the cluster to 3.2 U3.
i dont know where to start, i've read lots of documents, but couldn't find one complete document to cover the whole process.
i know that upgrade for solaris 10 with non-global zones is supported since my soalris 10 release, but i am not sure if its supported with SC.
Appreciate your help

Hi,
I am not sure whether this document:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/Maintaining+Solaris+with+Live+Upgrade+and+Update+On+Attach
has been on the list of docs you found already.
If you click on the download link, it won't work. But if you use the Tools icon on the upper right hand corner and click on attachements, you'll find the document. Its content is solely based on configurations with ZFS as root and zone root, but should have valuable information for other deployments as well.
Regards
Hartmut

Live Upgrade with Zones - still not working ?

Hi Guys,
I'm trying to do LiveUpdate from Solaris update 3 to update 4 with non-global zone installed. It's driving me crazy now.
I did everything as described in documentation, installed SUNWlucfg and supposedly updated SUNWluu and SUNWlur (supposedly because they are exactly the same as were in update 3) both from packages and with script from update 4 DVD, installed all patches mentioned in 72099, but lucreate process still complains about missing patches and I've checked if they're installed five times. They are. It doesn't even allow to create second BE. Once I detached Zone - everything went smooth, but I had an impression that Live Upgrade with Zones will work in Update 4.
It did create second BE before SUNWlucfg was installed, but failed on update stage with exactly the same message - install patches according to 72099. After installation of SUNWlucfg Live Upgrade process fails instantly, that's a real progress, must admit.
Is it still "mission impossible" to Live Upgrade with non-global zones installed ? Or am I missed something ?
Any ideas or success stories are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I upgraded from u3 to u5.
The upgrade went fine, the zones boot up but there are problems.
sshd doesn't work
svsc -vx prints out this.
svc:/network/rpc/gss:default (Generic Security Service)
State: uninitialized since Fri Apr 18 09:54:33 2008
Reason: Restarter svc:/network/inetd:default is not running.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-5H
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M gssd
Impact: 8 dependent services are not running:
svc:/network/nfs/client:default
svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
svc:/system/system-log:default
svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
svc:/system/webconsole:console
svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
svc:/network/ssh:default
svc:/network/inetd:default (inetd)
State: maintenance since Fri Apr 18 09:54:41 2008
Reason: Restarting too quickly.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-L5
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M inetd
See: /var/svc/log/network-inetd:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.
It seems as thought the container is not upgraded.
more /etc/release in the container shows this
Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 14 November 2006
How do I get it to fix the inetd service?

Problem with zone installation on solaris 08/07

Hello :)
I need some help
I install solaris 10 08/07 on my x2100 M2.Everything is ok.
Then I try to install non-global zone named web-zone with the following commands:
# mkdir /export/web-zone
# chmod 700 /export/web-zone
# zonecfg -z web-zone
web-zone: No such zone configured
Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone.
zonecfg:web-zone> create
zonecfg:web-zone> set autoboot=true
zonecfg:web-zone> set zonepath=/export/web-zone
zonecfg:web-zone> add net
zonecfg:web-zone:net> set address=192.168.0.3
zonecfg:web-zone:net> set physical=bge1
zonecfg:web-zone:net> end
zonecfg:web-zone> info
zonepath: /export/web-zone
autoboot: true
pool:
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /lib
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /platform
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /sbin
inherit-pkg-dir:
dir: /usr
net:
address: 192.168.0.3
physical: bge1
zonecfg:web-zone> verify
zonecfg:web-zone> commit
zonecfg:web-zone> exit
# zoneadm -z web-zone verify
# zoneadm -z web-zone install
# zoneadm list -cv
# zoneadm -z web-zone boot
When I zlogin into zone configuration stack with:
Fatal internal error: prompt_error called before prompt_open!
The IP address previously set on the network interface
is no longer available. The system state is corrupted. System identification
can no longer continue.
Press Return to continue
And that�s it :)
On interface bge1 I have 2 ip addresses, one for management processor (192.168.0.254) and one for global zone (192.168.0.2)
The output from ifconfig �a is :
# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
lo0:1: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
zone web-zone
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.0.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 0:1b:24:5:4f:6f
bge1:1: flags=4001000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,DUPLICATE> mtu 1500 index 2
zone web-zone
inet 192.168.0.3 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
Any Ideas ?? :)
Thaks
pp Sory for my baad english :)

Hi
Thank you for replay
This is happened exactly when I zlogin for first time to complete installation.
The installation procedure flow flawless.I set terminal type 13 (dt terminal) and everything is OK, but when I try to setup hostname I�ve got this error.
I try this with 3 different zones on this machine with same result
I have old x86 machines with solaris 11/06 zones installed , everything works fine (1 year uptime)
This is not the first zone in my life :)
Best Regards
DJ JAM

Solaris 10 Zone for Solaris 11.1 creation with template fails.

Hi,
We are trying to use the Oracle VM Template for Oracle Solaris 10 Zone to create a solaris 10 zone on a solaris 11.1 GZ
root@exsolh0005:/opt/scripts# ./solaris-10u11-sparc -v
This is an Oracle VM Template for Oracle Solaris Zones.
Copyright Â© 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This software and related documentation are provided under a license
agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are
protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly
permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not
use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license,
transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any
part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering,
disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by
law for interoperability, is prohibited.
Version: 1.0.9.12
root@exsolh0005:/opt/scripts# ./solaris-10u11-sparc -p /rpool -a 10.83.128.35/24 -i net6 -z testzone
This is an Oracle VM Template for Oracle Solaris Zones.
Copyright Â© 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This software and related documentation are provided under a license
agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are
protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly
permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not
use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license,
transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any
part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering,
disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by
law for interoperability, is prohibited.
IMAGE: ./solaris-10u11-sparc
ZONE: testzone
ZONEPATH: /rpool/testzone
VNIC: vnicZBI83273795
IP ADDR: 10.83.128.35
NETMASK: 255.255.255.0
DEFROUTER: 10.83.128.1
TIMEZONE: Europe/Copenhagen
Checking disk-space for extraction
Ok
Extracting in /opt/scripts/bootimage.8Ham6r ...
100% [===============================>]
Checking data integrity
Ok
Checking platform compatibility
The host and the image do not have the same Solaris release:
host Solaris release: 5.11
image Solaris release: 5.10
Will create a Solaris 10 branded zone.
Checking disk-space for installation
Ok
Installing in /rpool/testzone ...
100% [===============================>]
Attaching testzone
Problem attaching testzone.
More details in /var/sadm/install/logs/solaris-10u11-sparc.log
Cleaning up and exiting.
Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST: cleaning up
root@exsolh0005:/opt/scripts#
root@exsolh0005:/opt/scripts# cat /var/log/zones/zoneadm.20130510T131756Z.testzone.attach
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] ==== Starting: /usr/lib/brand/solaris10/attach testzone /rpool/testzone -c /opt/scripts/bootimage.8Ham6r/sysidcfg.testzone ====
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] Progress being logged to /var/log/zones/zoneadm.20130510T131756Z.testzone.attach
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] Pinning datasets under rpool/testzone
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] Pinning rpool/testzone
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] Pinning rpool/testzone/rpool
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] Pinning rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] Pinning rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT/zbe
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:56 PM CEST] Log File: /var/log/zones/zoneadm.20130510T131756Z.testzone.attach
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:57 PM CEST] Converting detached zone boot environment 'zbe'.
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:17:57 PM CEST] Unmounting /rpool/testzone/root
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:00 PM CEST] setting ZFS property zoned=on on rpool/testzone/rpool
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:00 PM CEST] setting ZFS property canmount=noauto on rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:00 PM CEST] setting ZFS property mountpoint=legacy on rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Mounting boot environment in rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT/zbe-0 at /rpool/testzone/root (including child datasets)
cannot open 'ERROR: Error: Command <zfs list -H -o name -t filesystem -r rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT/zbe-0> exited with status 1': invalid dataset name
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] ERROR: refresh of ERROR: Error: Command <zfs list -H -o name -t filesystem -r rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT/zbe-0> exited with status 1 failed
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] ERROR: Error: rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT/zbe-0: No such dataset.
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Unpinning datasets under rpool/testzone
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Unpinning rpool/testzone
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Unpinning rpool/testzone/rpool
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Unpinning rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Unpinning rpool/testzone/rpool/ROOT/zbe
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Result: Attach Failed.
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] Exiting with exit code 254
[Friday, May 10, 2013 03:18:01 PM CEST] ==== Completed: /usr/lib/brand/solaris10/attach testzone /rpool/testzone -c /opt/scripts/bootimage.8Ham6r/sysidcfg.testzone ====
Looks like a script bug..
Regards
Claus

Hello All,
I would love to know if someone has a solution to this as I am seeing a similar issue with a slightly different setup.
Solaris 8 and Netra 240. I get the same result with and without patches and finish scripts. After the jumpstart and the failed boot attempt from disk. I can boot from cd, copy the glm driver from the cd to disk, and then everything works as it should. Obviously this is not a solution but only a work around.
Is it something to do with the SCSI hardware architecture used in the *240s?
Edited by: Gareth_Mann on Oct 2, 2007 7:41 PM

Veritas Netbackup Client Installed on Solaris 10 Zone Unable to Work

Hi
I am having problems with Veritas Netbackup client which had been installed on a Solaris 10 zone only. We are using Veritas Netbackup server which is installed on a Windows 2000 server and the NBU server is unable to add the new client for backup.
The way I installed the NBU client was using the manual method where I installed directly on the zone. The zone I've created is a full root zone and the installation seems to be successful.
Somehow the NBU server just can't see the new client. Do I need to install the client in the global zone to make it work? Is there any checks I can do to make sure I have installed the client correctly and that the services are running in the solaris 10 zone side? Any kind of help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Xavier

Hi mcbrune1
I've check on the services in the client and all 4 services were up and running. Than I realized that this client was hardened a few weeks back. So I checked on the /etc/hosts.allow file and added an entry to allow the Master server to communicate using bpcd.
Now the Master server is able to see the client and everything seems to be working. Thanks for your help.
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Cloning Solaris 10 with zones

What is the best method to use when cloning a Solaris machine with zones, to ensure all software is included and can be easily installed
on new hardware?
Thank you!

If you use UFS, then ufsdump/ufsrestore
If you use ZFS, then zfs send/zfs receive
But, if you are using hardware or software RAID, you can also try to move one disk to an another machine.
You can see with these simple examples, that you have several methods and it depends how you configured your machine, Solaris and the zones. And finally, it depends too what is the source machine and what is the target machine, and how they are configured.

How to install MS Windows in a Solaris 10 Zone (Container)?

Hi:
I am a Windows expert because of my work but I am trying to get away from it at home while still being able to run Windows Applications in their native environment. So I read somewhere that is possible to install and run Windows in a Solaris 10 Zone (Container). Since I am not that experienced with Solaris a How-to guide to perform this task is greatly appreciated.
Regards

This is impossible. containers are only paravirtualization which is essentially
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I don't vmware supports using solaris as a server. Only a client.

I recently upgraded to iWork v9.0.3, but when I access each applications the versions are different (i.e. Pages V.4.1, Numbers V2.6, Keynote V5.1.1) with a install date of 3/18/09 -- which is not the current install date of 2 weeks ago. Why?

I recently upgraded to iWork v9.0.3, but when I access each applications the versions are different (i.e. Pages V.4.1, Numbers V2.6, Keynote V5.1.1) with a install date of 3/18/09 -- which is not the current install date of 2 weeks ago. Shouldn't Pages, Numbers, and Keynote show version 9.?? My MAC confirned installation of v9.0.3 and even accepted the software code. With this discrepancy, how can I determine if the latest was installed and operational? I even downloading v9.0.4, 9.0.5, and 9.1. When I tried installing these downloads it popped up note stating that a later version of Keynote was already installed.

You used the data. Verizon can not see what it was sued for. However your phone can see whats apps used the data. go to settings-data usage- there will be a place that says data usage cycle. line the dates up with your cycle. then there will be a bar graph below that extend bother white bars one all the way to the left and one all the way to the right. after those are extended below that will be a list of apps, there should be one that used over 2 gb and that will show you what app used that data in her purse

I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8 with iTunes installed. Now my iPhone 4S is no longer recognized in iTunes. Connecting with USB sends me directly to the MS app that downloads pictures from the iPhone. Suggest this is a question of missing Apple driver.

I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8 with iTunes installed. Now my iPhone 4S is no longer recognized in iTunes. Connecting the iPhone with USB sends me directly to the MS app that downloads pictures from the iPhone. Suggest this is a question of missing Apple driver for Windows 8, iTunes and iPhone. MS does not care! This seems to be a general problem with Windows 8 that a number of drivers that used to work with Windows 7 now do not work, ie. iPhone to iTunes, HTC to HTCSync, Samsung to Kies etc. I need this connection to work in order to syncronize with Outlook and my iTunes library.

diesel vdub wrote:
Maybe it would have been a better idea to confirm that iTunes is supported in Windows 8 before buying a computer with that Operating System.
There will be a new version of iTunes released this month... no one forced you to upgrade prior to a supported version of iTunes being released.
Like the fact that you just called most of us stupid there

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