Oracle Solaris 10 allows you to create a Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 as branded zone on SPARC environment and not supported on x86.But oracle soalris 11 allows you to create Solaris 10 as a branded zone on both SPARC and X86 environments.For your information Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 branded zones are not supported on solaris11. So customers are forced to use oracle solaris10 as branded zone or oracle Solaris 11 now a days.Here we will see how to install oracle Solaris 10 as branded zone on Solaris 11 x86 environment.
Prerequisites :
- Solaris 11 base system should have more than 1GB ram and 2GB swap space.(use top command to find out)
- Solaris 10 Branded zone require minimum 3GB disk space.(zonepath)
- Download the oracle soalris 10 VM template from oracle website and keep it in /var/tmp of Solaris 11 global zone.
- Install the Solaris 10 brand on solaris11 global zone.(You need IPS to install it )
root@UAAIS:~# pkg install pkg:/system/zones/brand/brand-solaris10 No updates necessary for this image. Planning linked: 2/2 done root@UAAIS:~#
Click on the download link and that will take to the below screen.According to the system architecture , you can choose the VM template.
1.Copy the installed binary file to /var/tmp on the Solaris 11 global zone.
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# ls -lrt |grep bin -rwx------ 1 root root 1312819651 Mar 27 02:05 solaris-10u11-x86.bin root@UAAIS:/var/tmp#
2.I have chosen the below dataset as the zoneroot path.
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# df -h /oraz1/sol10z1 Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on oraz1/sol10z1 10.0G 32K 7.7G 1% /oraz1/sol10z1 root@UAAIS:/var/tmp#
3.You no need to create any zone’s configuration prior to the installation. But you need to supply the zone’s configuration to the binary file to create the Solaris 10 branded zone and zone’s installation. The below commands creates the Solaris 10 branded zone and installs it automatically.
Options:
- -p = zonepath
- -i=Physical network link(zone creates VNIC automatically)
- -z=zonename
- -a=IP address of the local zone
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# ./solaris-10u11-x86.bin -p /oraz1/sol10z1 -a 192.168.2.44 -i net0 -z uasol10z1
This is an Oracle VM Template for Oracle Solaris Zones.
Copyright © 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-x86.bin
ZONE: uasol10z1
ZONEPATH: /oraz1/sol10z1/uasol10z1
VNIC: vnicZBI27572146
IP ADDR: 192.168.2.44
NETMASK: 255.255.255.0
DEFROUTER: 192.168.2.5
TIMEZONE: Asia/Kolkata
Checking disk-space for extraction
Ok
Extracting in /var/tmp/bootimage.rwai4i ...
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 /oraz1/sol10z1/uasol10z1 ...
100% [===============================>]
Attaching uasol10z1
Ok
Booting uasol10z1
waiting for boot to complete
local file systems mounted
booting...
booting...
booting...
Zone uasol10z1 booted
The zone's root password has been set with the one of the global zone.
To harden the zone's security you can change this password: being root,
connect to the zone from the global zone with the command
'zlogin uasol10z1'.
Once logged in, change the root password with the command 'passwd'.
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp#
We have successfully installed Solaris 10 branded zone on Solaris 11 global zone.
4.Check the zone’s status and its configuration.
root@UAAIS:~# zoneadm list -cv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / solaris shared
3 uasol10z1 running /oraz1/sol10z1/uasol10z1 solaris10 excl
- uaz1 installed /export/zones/uaz1 solaris excl
- uaz2 installed /export/zones/uaz2 solaris excl
root@UAAIS:~# zonecfg -z uasol10z1 info
zonename: uasol10z1
zonepath: /oraz1/sol10z1/uasol10z1
brand: solaris10
autoboot: true
bootargs:
pool:
limitpriv:
scheduling-class:
ip-type: exclusive
hostid:
fs-allowed:
net:
address not specified
allowed-address not specified
configure-allowed-address: true
physical: vnicZBI27572146
defrouter not specified
root@UAAIS:~#
5.You can login to the zone and verify the operating system version and release.
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# zlogin uasol10z1
[Connected to zone 'uasol10z1' pts/4]
Last login: Thu Mar 27 19:58:07 on pts/3
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.10 Generic Patch January 2005
# bash
bash-3.2# uname -a
SunOS uasol10z1 5.10 Generic_Virtual i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-3.2# cat /etc/release
Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 s10x_u11wos_24a X86
Copyright (c) 1983, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Assembled 17 January 2013
bash-3.2#
bash-3.2# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
vnicZBI27572146: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.2.44 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
ether 2:8:20:f6:d3:4a
bash-3.2# zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
rpool 10.1G 2.28G 7.83G 22% 1.00x ONLINE -
bash-3.2#
The installation may fail due to the following reasons .
- Insufficient memory
- Insufficient disk-space.
- zone-path doesn’t exists.
Here is the some of the examples of those failed installations.
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# ./solaris-10u11-x86.bin -p /oraz1/sol10z1 -a 192.168.2.44 -i net0 -z uasol10z1
This is an Oracle VM Template for Oracle Solaris Zones.
Copyright © 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.
/oraz1/sol10z1 does not exist or is not a directory, exiting
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# df -h /oraz1
Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on
oraz1 10.0G 35K 9.8G 1% /oraz1
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# zfs create oraz1/sol10z1
Another example, Here the installation failed due to insufficient memory.
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp# ./solaris-10u11-x86.bin -p /oraz1/sol10z1 -a 192.168.2.44 -i net0 -z uasol10z1
This is an Oracle VM Template for Oracle Solaris Zones.
Copyright © 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.
Not enough free swap-space on this system.
A minimum of 1GB is required while only 936MB are free.
Swap-space can be added with the command 'swap -a'.
root@UAAIS:/var/tmp#
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