Moving & cloning Solaris zones 0 e
A view of things to come, Jerry Jelinek, who recently moved to the Zones team, has recently submitted a proposal to implement two new functionalities for zones :
- Moving a zone by specifying a new ‘zonepath’
- Cloning a zone by copying a non-global zone to a new ‘zonepath’
SUMMARY:
This fast-track enhances the Solaris Zones [1] subsystem
to address two existing RFEs. The first [2] enables non-global
zones to be relocated from one point on the filesystem to another;
this may involve actually moving the bits and requires changing the
associated metadata (the “zonepath”). The second [3] enables
administrators to rapidly provision new non-global zones, once
one has been set up, by allowing installation via copying from
another (non-global) zone.
Patch binding is requested for these sub-commands and the stability
of the interfaces is “evolving”.
DETAILS: