Solaris Zones

UNIX Solaris
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I have a Solaris 10 box configured with a global zone and 3 non-global zones. All of the zones need to be configured so they can access and run an application in the global zone located at /export/home. How do i make this application and all of its accompanying files available to the 3 non-global zones?

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example from man zonecfg

       zonecfg:myzone3> add fs
       zonecfg:myzone3:fs> set dir=/export/home
       zonecfg:myzone3:fs> set special=/export/home
       zonecfg:myzone3:fs> set type=lofs
       zonecfg:myzone3:fs> add options [ro,nodevices]
       zonecfg:myzone3:fs> end

after just use commit or reboot zone

3

These changes need to be made on each zone and then added to the configuration by using the commit command. Is that correct? Will having the two export/home directories cause any problems with the zone configurations (mounted /export/home and export/home that currently exists on the zones)?

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Yes. The commit command isn't strictly necessary as it is done anyway automatically when you quite zonecfg.

Yes. They will hide the previous /export/home content that might exist in the non global zones. Specify the subdirectory containing the application to avoid this issue.