Student-led OpenSolaris zone setup
In my day-to-day work at Sun, I track product reviews for OpenOffice, JavaFX, VirtualBox, NetBeans, and OpenSolaris. I am used to hunting down product reviews and how-to tutorials on the Internet on a regular basis. So, I was more than pleased to come across a great OpenSolaris how-to article today in OSUM, written by Andrew Browne, a student from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia.
In Andrew's blog post, he described how he set up a zone on his OpenSolaris box to host a webstack made up of Apache 2, MySQL, and PHP. It's obvious Andrew did his homework, because he cited a few locations for additional info. – a most appreciated tactic in these types of tutorials!
He even warned that the tricky part was in starting the servers, but gave a fair bit of guidance for getting through the main issues he faced. Overall, Andrew concluded by saying: "Zones are cool. They have the security and separation of VM's without all the overhead of another OS."
Many thanks to Andrew for taking the time to share his experiences and help others learn! Please check out Andrew's great blog post here in OSUM. And I am on the hunt for more how-to tutorials or reviews like this from students for an upcoming revamp of the Sun Student Reviews site, so please keep them coming!
