[OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving an OI zone between servers

[Christopher X. Candreva]

I'm having a devil of a time moving a zone to another server. I tried 
following the Solaris instructions ( 
https://blogs.oracle.com/openomics/entry/solaris_zone_migration ), but at 
the install step it seems OI's zoneadm can't read a zfs send file, as I get 
this error:

chris at Zeb:/root# zoneadm -z Jacob install -a Jacob.zfs -p
A ZFS file system has been created for this zone.
    Log File: /var/tmp/Jacob.install_log.RQaiQk
Error: Unknown archive format. Must be a flash archive, a cpio archive (can 
also be gzipped or bzipped), a pax XUSTAR archive, or a level 0 ufsdump 
archive.
ERROR: Installation aborted.


I've also tried doing the zfs send/receive ahead of time and trying to 
attach, but get this error:

Log File: /var/tmp/Jacob.attach_log.CKaGhl
ERROR: Failed to locate any dataset mounted at /zones/jacob/root.  Attach 
requires a mounted dataset.
                    Result: Attach Failed.
chris at Zeb:/root# 


On the old server with the zone shutdown, I see these mounts:
rpool/zones/jacob                  43722064       33  43722031   1% /zones/jacob
rpool/zones/jacob/ROOT/zbe-1       44543497   821466  43722031   2% /zones/jacob/root


But ...ROOT/zbe-1 has a mount point of legacy. I can't make any changes to 
the zfs file systems from the global zone because they are delegated to the 
zone.  Is it possible to attach a zone this way ? What is the best way to do 
this ?

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