Solaris 10 local zone on Solaris 11 global zone

aixlover · January 18, 2012, 10:06am

Hi,

A quick question: Can Solaris 10 local zones be moved to a Solaris 11 global zone and work well?

Thank you in advance!

DukeNuke2 · January 18, 2012, 10:56am

zones are sharing the same kernel... so i vote for "no". but i don't know if there is something like "branded zones" for solaris 11 which gives the feature to run solaris 10 zones... (same as running solaris 8 zones on solaris 10).

jlliagre · January 19, 2012, 1:05am

Yes, this is definitely supported by using Solaris10 branded zones.

Migrating an Existing Zone on an Oracle Solaris 10 System - System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Containers, and Resource Management

aixlover · January 20, 2012, 2:10pm

Thanks a lot! I am going to give it a shot :rolleyes:

aixlover · January 25, 2012, 2:03pm

The 'cpio -oP@/' is not correct. Anyone knows what it should be? Thanks.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1460/gjroc.html

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This is working:

# find myzone -print | cpio -coP@ | gzip > /myzone.cpio.gz

jlliagre · January 25, 2012, 6:39pm

Thanks for the feed back. I reported it to the manual maintainers.