Re: newbie: zones getting me dizzy

From: Lion-O (nosp_at_m.catslair.org)
Date: 09/07/05 

Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:43:31 -0000

> I am trying to learn how to use zones in Solairs 10. I have been
> reading through http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592 and
> http://learningsolaris.com/zones-unofficial-faq/ but still think I am
> going nowhere slowly.

What have you done so far? I'd say don't take it too quickly; simply
start out by creating a zone and making yourself familiar with it. That
shouldn't be a difficult task since its heavily documented and explained
all over the web.

Even the 'zonecfg(1M)' command's manualpage explains you the basic steps
to setup a zone. The final installation is then done using the
'zoneadm(1M)' command. Its basicly an issue of configuring the zone
first where you setup things like installation path, inherited
directories, added filesystems and network devices; then its onto the
installation.

I've done a quick googleing around
(http://www.google.com/search?q=solaris+10+zones) which gives you a lot
of very usable documents on this. A quick glimpse on some give me
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/Solaris-10-b51/DMC-0002/dmc-0002.html and
http://www.softpanorama.org/Solaris/zones.shtml which should give you a
little better "step by step" guiding.

> What I want to do is to create a zone, called, say, first-zone, with
> ip 10.0.0.2.

Simply create the zone, configure the IP and then give it a hostname
'first-zone'. You're not really naming the zone, you're naming the
virtual machine. Which is done in the exact same way as you'd be giving
any other Solaris box a name.

> and which will run sun's dns server, sun's ldap server, and ISC's (for
> many reasons, including to see how a non-sun application would run in
> a zone) dhcp server.

Hmm, Solaris 10 ships with Bind as far as I know, I'm not familiar with
all Sun's software but I was under the impression that they too use Bind
as DNS server.

Still, that doesn't really matter... As a testcase you should be
perfectly fine by installing this software on the Global Zone and when
everything works simply copy/move it into your non-global zone.

There are many ways to achieve this mind you, but I think this to be the
easiest and quickest. But I'd say first things first; start by making
yourself a little more familiar, then move on from there. 

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