Solaris 10 Zones Appear on Solaris Express 02/04

Anonymous

Linux VServer http://www.linux-vserver.org/ and Linux Virtual Server http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ are two different projects. Linux VServer is similar to Solaris zones.

Anonymous

Hi every one

I try downloading the solaris 10 install cd in zip format from sun website and have try it both with sun downloader and under IE 6 and i keep getting a damaged zip file. Has any one had same issue or know why this may be happioning?

Anonymous

> Most have no reason to know what a jail on FreeBSD

Even less (or as many) know what LVS is…

Anonymous

Martin –

You cannot run Solaris 10 on (from your list): SS 10/20 or even ultra 1. The support is limited to sun4u only. One of the other things they are dropping support (down the road) is sbus. However, I have an e4500 and it’s supported until 2007, so I doubt it’ll go away that fast.

-Bruno

Anonymous

> You cannot run Solaris 10 on (from your list): SS 10/20 or even ultra 1.

This is not entirely correct, Ultra 1 is sun4u and will be supported for Solaris 10.

> I don’t see Solaris as a desktop OS yet (if ever).

Solaris is absolutely no worse for desktop than Linux or BSD for that matter if hardware is not bothering you, since almost 100% of all software for Linux/BSD is available is available for Solaris. I’m using Solaris for 100% of the tasks I do at work and at home.Thankfully StarOffice 7 has taken away the pain of resorting to Windows to do certain things.

Anonymous

>> This is not entirely correct, Ultra 1 is sun4u and will

>> be supported for Solaris 10.

>Nope…it aint. See:

>http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/supported_plat…..

Actually it is a sun4u system its not supported apparently because of the speed of the cpu, > 200Mhz

Anonymous

Zones sounds like User Mode Linux. Is it w/o the performance loss?

Anonymous

For anyone trying to install Solaris Express and using an Ultra 1 or 2 with UltraSparc I CPU’s don’t bother, the install will fail. Sun should be a little more specific with the minimum CPU recommendation.

As I was installing Solaris Express 9/03 I received warnings that UltraSparc I CPU’s would not be supported in future releases. Sure enough the 10/03 release would not support an UltraSparc I, which is why I sold my Ultra I and upgraded the CPU’s on my Ultra 2 to 300 MHz.

Anonymous

Solaris Express is now Single UNIX Specification, Version 3 compliant: http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/ ; also, it is called “Solaris Zones Partitioning Technology”, which is similar to what can be done on a mainframe. Turn a big iron into a bunch of small ones thus allowing you to allocate a specific amount of resources to a certain department, everything from CPU time to memory, hard disk, etc etc. Here is a repost of what is on the Solaris Intel Mailing list couticy of John Becks, one of the Zones gurus at SUN:

——– Original Message ——–

Subject: Introducing Solaris Zones

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:23:34 +0000 (UTC)

From: John Beck <[email protected]>

Organization: Sun.Software.Solaris

Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris

Hello world,

Solaris Express 02/04 is now available, and this post is to announce

one of the exciting new features, a means of partitioning a single

Solaris instance into isolated application environments called “zones.”

(Note that Zones and Resource Management are related subsets of “N1

Grid Containers”; N1GC = S10RM + Zones.) Each zone can be separately

administered and each zone can run an independent set of applications.

Zones allow one or more processes to run in isolation from other

activity on the system. Processes running in a given zone cannot

monitor or affect processes running in other zones. For example, a

process running in a zone will only be able to send signals to other

processes in the same zone, regardless of user id and other credential

information. Likewise, processes in zones will be unable to control

global aspects of the system configuration such as run level, most

physical devices, and network routing tables. (The exception is the

global zone, which is discussed under Security, below.)

Features:

* Security

Network services can be run in a zone, limiting the potential damage

in the event of a security violation. No process running within a

zone, even one with superuser credentials, is allowed to affect

activity in other zones. Certain activities, such as rebooting or

shutting down the system as a whole, will only be permitted in the

global zone. An administrator logged into the global zone can

monitor the activity of applications running in other zones and

control the system as a whole. The global, or default, zone will

always exist.

* Isolation

Zones allow the deployment of multiple applications on the same

machine, even if the applications operate in different trust domains,

require exclusive use of a global resource, or present difficulties

with global configurations. Individual zones can have their own set

of users and their own root password and when rebooted, any other

zones running on the system are unaffected.

* Virtualization

Zones provide a virtualized environment that can hide details such

as physical devices and the system’s primary IP address and host

name from the application. This can be useful in supporting rapid

deployment and redeployment of applications since the same environment

can be maintained on different physical machines.

* Granularity

Zones can provide isolation at almost arbitrary granularity. A

zone does not require a dedicated CPU, physical device, or chunk of

physical memory. These resources can either be multiplexed across

a number of zones running within a single system, or allocated on a

per-zone basis using resource management features available in the

operating system.

* Transparency

Zones avoid changing the environment in which applications execute

except when necessary to achieve the goals of security and isolation.

Zones do not present a new API or ABI to which applications must

be ported. Instead, they provide the standard Solaris interfaces

and application environment, with some restrictions that affect

applications attempting to perform privileged operations.

Here is a sample session of a configuring, installing and booting a

zone; note that the zlogin command in the second window is run between

commands 7 and 8 in the first window.

—– cut here: start first window —–

[root:1] zoneadm list -cv

ID NAME STATUS PATH

0 global running /

[root:2] zonecfg -z luke

luke: No such zone configured

Use ‘create’ to begin configuring a new zone.

zonecfg:luke> create

zonecfg:luke> set zonepath=/export/home/luke

zonecfg:luke> set autoboot=true

zonecfg:luke> add inherit-pkg-dir

zonecfg:luke:inherit-pkg-dir> set dir=/opt

zonecfg:luke:inherit-pkg-dir> end

zonecfg:luke> add net

zonecfg:luke:net> set address=129.146.86.66/24

zonecfg:luke:net> set physical=eri0

zonecfg:luke:net> end

zonecfg:luke> verify

zonecfg:luke> commit

zonecfg:luke> ^D

[root:3] zoneadm list -cv

ID NAME STATUS PATH

0 global running /

– luke configured /export/home/luke

[root:4] zoneadm -z luke install

Preparing to install zone <luke>.

Creating list of files to copy from the global zone.

Copying <2203> files to the zone.

Initializing zone product registry.

Determining zone package initialization order.

Preparing to initialize <905> packages on the zone.

Initialized <905> packages on zone.

Successfully initialized zone <luke>.

[root:5] zoneadm list -cv

ID NAME STATUS PATH

0 global running /

– luke installed /export/home/luke

[root:6] cat /usr/local/etc/luke.sysidcfg

system_locale=C

terminal=xterm

network_interface=primary {

hostname=luke

}

security_policy=NONE

name_service=NIS {

domain_name=sunsoft.eng.sun.com

}

timezone=US/Pacific

root_password=4bw/KFH3xRPUE

[root:7] cp /usr/local/etc/luke.sysidcfg /export/home/luke/root/etc/sysidcfg

[root:8] zoneadm -z luke boot

[root:9] zoneadm list -cv

ID NAME STATUS PATH

0 global running /

1 luke running /export/home/luke

[root:10]

—– cut here: end first window —–

—– cut here: start second window —–

[root:1] zlogin -C luke

[Connected to zone ‘luke’ console]

[NOTICE: zone booting up]

SunOS Release 5.10 Version s10_51 64-bit

Copyright 1983-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Use is subject to license terms.

Hostname: luke

The system is coming up. Please wait.

starting rpc services: rpcbind keyserv ypbind done.

rebooting system due to change(s) in /etc/default/init

[NOTICE: zone rebooting]

SunOS Release 5.10 Version s10_51 64-bit

Copyright 1983-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Use is subject to license terms.

Hostname: luke

The system is coming up. Please wait.

NIS domain name is sunsoft.eng.sun.com

starting rpc services: rpcbind keyserv ypbind done.

syslog service starting.

/etc/mail/aliases: 12 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 138 bytes total

Creating new rsa public/private host key pair

Creating new dsa public/private host key pair

The system is ready.

luke console login:

—– cut here: end second window —–

We encourage you to check out the AnswerBook at BigAdmin:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/zones

Or better yet, go to:

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.html

There you can download Solaris Express 02/04 and try Zones yourself!

Enjoy,

— John Beck and the rest of the Zones team

Anonymous

> Zones sounds like User Mode Linux. Is it w/o the performance loss?

Yes — unlike UML, Zones don’t need to emulate a whole operating system layer, and there is typically only a small performance slowdown, due to things like loopback mounts, etc.