[OpenIndiana-discuss] Copying zone from one machine to another.

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

Mr. Javoršek - I thank you very much for your help.  Unfortunately, I've run into much bigger problems than this, so I haven't had time to work with this further.

I've lost all networking to my zones...

I had it.  I installed software in them.  But now it's gone.

I'm not asking for help at this point.  I mostly just wanted to acknowledge your help with copying zones, and thank you for it.  I just haven't been able to look into that further because I have to deal with this, first.

Thank you again!

fp


On Mar 13, 2013, at 1:50 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote:

> Hello!
> My normal procedure includes recursive snapshot/send/receive of whole zone
> dataset. Problems may arise if the zone is not installed from scratch but
> cloned instead or if there are some time-slider snapshots behind it.
> To get back to your question:  zone (zfs) dataset needs zoned flag and flag
> that marks corresponding boot environment of global zone eg.
> 
> #zfs get zoned,org.opensolaris.libbe:parentbe nag_log/zones/na_lg/ROOT/zbe-7
> NAME                            PROPERTY                        VALUE
>                          SOURCE
> nag_log/zones/na_lg/ROOT/zbe-7  zoned                           on
>                           inherited from nag_log/zones/na_lg/ROOT
> nag_log/zones/na_lg/ROOT/zbe-7  org.opensolaris.libbe:parentbe
> f2a01237-bbe0-486e-ea0a-976d794761e0  local
> 
> while the global zone has:
> #zfs get org.opensolaris.libbe:uuid rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-15
> NAME                       PROPERTY                    VALUE
>                  SOURCE
> rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-15  org.opensolaris.libbe:uuid
> f2a01237-bbe0-486e-ea0a-976d794761e0  local
> 
> So in your case you must set them manually (for every local zone).
> Hope that helps
> Andrej
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25 PM, DormitionSkete at hotmail.com <
> dormitionskete at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> What is the proper procedure for copying a zone from one machine to
>> another?
>> 
>> I have several zones that I've set up on one machine.  I'd like to copy
>> them to another machine, change the networking, and use them.
>> 
>> So, I took one of these zones.  I halted it, detached it, tar'ed it up,
>> and copied it to the other machine.
>> 
>> I realize I could probably have used "zfs send" to do that, but I figured
>> that I probably would have to have somehow mounted the dataset on the
>> target machine, or exported it somehow, and I didn't know how to do any of
>> that.  I'd like to know, though, but that's not the main question.
>> 
>> So, I have this tar'd up zone on the target machine.  I've untared it.  I
>> thought that, theoretically, I should be able to attach the zone, and then
>> clone it so cloning process will set it in a state that I can zonecfg to
>> change the network card (set physical=newcard.vnic), and when I boot it,
>> that it will make me reconfigure the networking.
>> 
>> I'm running into a problem attaching the zone, though.
>> 
>> I try (fake names because I'm writing this from a different machine):
>> 
>> zonecfg - myzone
>> create -a /zones/myzone
>> info                                   -- shows everything fine.
>> exit
>> 
>> 
>> zoneadm -z myzone attach     -- fails, saying it has to be a mounted
>> dataset.  No matter what I try, I can't get it to attach.
>> 
>> 
>> I was halfway thinking of just creating a zone with the same name,
>> installing it, booting it, configuring it, halting it, and then copying the
>> original zone on top of it, and seeing if that would allow me to clone it
>> -- but I'd really like to know the *right* way to do this.
>> 
>> If somebody would give me another hand with this, I'd really appreciate
>> it.  I'm so close to being able to bring this whole project to a close...
>> But this would really be quite helpful.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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