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

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

Oh, that looks great!!!  That looks exactly like what I need!  Thank you very much.

I really appreciate it.


On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Mark Creamer wrote:

> For whatever it's worth once you get the networking sorted, every time I've
> used the procedure listed here:
> http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/2011/06/05/migrating-an-openindiana-zone-from-one-system-to-another/
> it has worked perfectly. Might be useful for you.
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:23 PM, DormitionSkete at hotmail.com <
> dormitionskete at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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