Just a quick question here, about Legacy Zones. Well more about how to determine if you are actually in one, on logging into a legacy zone - is there a quick way of checking that?
Thanks for the reply, I haven't explained this very well. I have a couple of hundred servers here, covering Solaris 2.5.1 up to Solaris 11.2. They are probably 50/50 physical and virtual, all the virtual are zones (no LDOMS in use).
When I connect to a server, I'd like to identify it as a zone if possible. This is simple for Solaris 10 and 11, as you can use the zonename command to test.
However on Solaris 8 and 9, the servers can be either physical or virtual and running a
Code:
uname -a
will just return the OS, hostname, kernel version etc.
What I was looking for was a simple way of determining whether I was on a virtual or physical, but having spent a bit of time on this now it's looking like there is no easy way to tell.
warn_zones function looks like it looks at some files which determine various info regarding zones.
Perhaps oracle version is still a plain text script
But then again i have no experience with above, so it is just babble
Hmmmmm.......that's a good question (and although I've done a lot of work on legacy zones, I don't have one here right now). So I'll just give you my thoughts and you'll have to test them.
If there's a legacy zone (Solaris 8 or 9) running under Solaris 10 (since legacy is not supported under Solaris 11), then it must be whole root since it cannot share the system files with the global. Also, the legacy could be assigned an exclusive network interface for its use, or could share one with the global. I would expect sharing to be indicated by the interface showing as eg, hme0:1, hme0:2, and so on. That might tell you something.
Also, whilst even logged into the legacy as root I would expect commands such as 'format', 'prtdiag', and 'cfgadm' to fail with something like "you don't have the rights to do this" type message.
I would expect:
Code:
# uname -v
to output something like 'Generic' if the machine was not a physical box.
Just a few thoughts and pointers. I'll give it a go myself when I can.
Hi, hoping someone can help, its been a while since I used Solaris.
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I try to install some packages in my global zone...
On the execution of the installion of the script it quits by saying the error
"Non global zone check failed"
Kindly help me in this regard
Thanks in advance,
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