Thursday Sep 06, 2007
Thursday Sep 06, 2007
Marc Hamilton, Dan Price, and Bob Wientzen have been blogging about project Etude and the new solaris8 branded zone that will be available as the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant.
A solaris8 non-global zone is a complete runtime environment for Solaris 8 applications on SPARC machines running Solaris 10. An existing Solaris 8 system can be directly migrated into a solaris8 container, or you can use the provided Solaris 8 based image. The brand supports the execution of 32-bit and 64-bit Solaris 8 applications. Many Solaris 10 capabilities are available to the solaris8 zones, including the ability to run on newer hardware that Solaris 8 does not support, and Solaris 10 performance improvements.
The standard zonecfg, zoneadm, and zlogin commands are used to create, install, log into, and administer the zone.
This is great news for consolidating legacy apps. Will it allow Dtrace to be run on a Solaris 8 App from the global zone?
Posted by Phil Pavelin on September 12, 2007 at 12:30 PM PDT #
Somehow I didn't get or missed the email notification of your question. Sorry!
Yes, you can use DTrace on processes in solaris8 zones. It is run from the global zone.
- Penny
Posted by penny cotten on September 21, 2007 at 07:04 PM PDT #
What about a Solaris9 Zone? Is this also supported?
Posted by dan on April 14, 2008 at 01:49 PM PDT #
Yes, Dtrace, run from the global zone, can be used to examine processes in solaris9 zones.
Posted by pcotten on April 14, 2008 at 04:08 PM PDT #
I could not find any instructions about applying Solaris8-Patches to the branded Solaris8 zone. Might I dare to patch the zone from inside itself???
Posted by Henrich on May 29, 2008 at 08:54 AM PDT #