[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot move a zone to another server successfully

Mon May 20 20:27:41 UTC 2013

Well, the socially *un*acceptable way is to do a "sys-unconfig".  This will preserve your zone itself, but wipe out all the network configuration.  (Including your /etc/hosts file, so if you need that, be sure to back it up to a different name). When you reboot the zone, it will make you go through the whole configuration process just like it was a new zone.

Before you try that, though, I suggest editing your /etc.hostname.YOUR_ADAPTER_NAME file.  Put in it the ip address  you want it to have, followed by "netmask" followed by your netmask.  Like:

192.168.2.52 netmask 255.255.255.0

It wouldn't hurt to look at your other networking files -- I'm sorry I can't tell you what they are offhand, but if you open "gnome-search-tool" in your global zone, you could use it to search for part of your ip address range (like 192.168) in your non-global zone, and that should find them all.

Sorry, but I'm not much of a networker.

In any case, changing your /etc/hostname.YOUR_ADAPTER_NAME file, and making sure the info in your /etc/hosts file are correct, and probably your /etc/nodename file -- then rebooting, should probably get you up and running.

HTH

On May 20, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Mark Creamer wrote:

> Well, sort of. It definitely got me thinking in a different direction, I
> found my mistake(s) and now I am able to finally attach and boot the zone.
> So thank you very much for that pointer
> 
> The last thing (I think) I still am having trouble with is networking in
> the zone. I had created a vnic on the new server, and made sure it was
> named correctly in the zone config. I can ping the IP of the zone itself,
> but nothing else. Not the gateway, not other machines in the same subnet.
> The /etc/defaultrouter is correct, as is /etc/netmasks. I've tried halting
> the zone, zonecfg -> remove net, then re-adding it again. The zonecfg
> configuration is exactly like the one on the old server, the physical
> interface is the same name e1000g0. The vnic shows up correctly in the
> global zone with dladm show-vnic. Probably the best thing is to just delete
> networking on the zone and set it up from scratch, but I must be doing that
> wrong because that still didn't work.
> 
> How do I configure and enable networking on a zone that has just been moved
> to a new server? (btw, the zone is halted and detached on the original
> server)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:48 PM, DormitionSkete at hotmail.com <
> dormitionskete at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 19, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Mark Creamer wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been trying for weeks to get a zone off old hardware onto new. Both
>>> servers are running exactly the same OI release, 151a7. I have not been
>>> able to find a document that I can follow and get successful results.
>> I've
>>> tried both an Oracle doc on performing the procedure on Solaris 11, and
>>> another one here: http://unixhowto.filodownunder.com/?p=10. Neither work
>>> for me.
>>> 
>>> The error I'm getting is: ERROR: no active dataset
>>> 
>>> I found an article Alistair wrote here:
>>> 
>> http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/10/fixing-no-active-dataset-on-zone-attach/and
>>> I tried the script in the article, but that returns:
>>> Invalid dataset name. It's looking for the parent of ROOT but I
>> apparently
>>> do not have that path so it fails, which is probably the root of the
>> whole
>>> issue.
>>> 
>>> In a nutshell here's what I did in case anyone can see what the problem
>> is:
>>> 
>>> 1. On the source server, I export the zone manifest and copy it to the
>>> destination server in /var/tmp
>>> 2. I halt and detach the zone on the source
>>> 3. I tar/gzip the zone, copy it to the destination server, and untar it
>>> there so that it resides in /datastore/zones/zonename just as it does on
>>> the source
>>> 4. I create a zonecfg, and edit it so the network vnic is correct for the
>>> new machine
>>> 5. I attempt to attach it on the new server, which fails.
>>> 
>>> Maybe is someone can just tell me what they do to accomplish this, or
>> point
>>> me to a different how-to. I haven't been able to find anything else.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> --
>>> Mark
>> 
>> Look in the "Troubleshooting" and the "Create a zfs filesystem as a
>> container for build-zones" sections of this page.
>> 
>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+in+zones
>> 
>> Does this help?
>> 
>> 
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