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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris 8 Containers Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers |
1. Introduction to Solaris 8 Containers
2. Obtaining and Installing the Software
Solaris 8 Containers Versions and System Requirements
Oracle Solaris 10 Patch Requirements and Compatibility if Running a Prior Release
Installing the Solaris 8 Containers 1.0.1 Software on the Oracle Solaris 10 Host System
Installing the Solaris 8 Containers 1.0 Software on the Solaris 10 Host System
3. Assessing a Solaris 8 System and Creating an Archive
4. Configuring a solaris8 Zone
5. Installing the solaris8 Zone
6. Booting a Zone and Zone Migration
7. About Zone Login and Post-Installation Configuration
8. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Solaris 8 Branded Zones Problems
Instructions for downloading the Solaris 8 Containers product are available at the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.
The software download site for patches is My Oracle Support. Click on the "Patches & Updates" tab. On that site, you can view the download instructions and download the images. Contact your support provider for additional information regarding patches.
The Oracle Solaris 8 Containers software can be installed on a SPARC system running at least the Oracle Solaris 10 8/07 release.
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The product media contains the following versions:
Oracle Solaris 8 Containers 1.0.1, for systems running:
Oracle Solaris 10 10/08 or later
Kernels 137137-07 or later
Systems running Solaris 8 Containers 1.0 (or Solaris 8 Migration Assistant) also must install the 1.0.1 product if the systems are updated to:
Oracle Solaris 10 10/08 or later
Kernels 137137-07 or later
SUNWs8brandr and SUNWs8brandu are installed as part of an Oracle Solaris 10 installation.
SUNWs8brandk is only available from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. To obtain the package:
Go to the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.
Click Sign In/Register to access export validation.
Complete the Export Validation license agreement.
Select product: "Oracle Solaris" and platform "Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit),” and click search.
Select Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers to download the package.
Install the package on your system.
Oracle Solaris 8 Containers 1.0, which is only available from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud, is for systems running:
Oracle Solaris 10 8/07, with required Solaris patch 127111-01 or later applied
Oracle Solaris 10 5/08
Kernels 127111 (all versions)
Kernels 127127 (all versions)
Kernels 137111 (all versions)
The packages in the Oracle Solaris 8 Containers 1.0 media have been updated to include the latest functionality in Oracle Solaris 8 Containers patch 128548-08.
The product download also includes a README file containing installation instructions for both versions, and a sample Solaris 8 flash archive image provided for validation purposes.
The 128548-02 patch allows earlier versions of the Solaris 8 Container product, called Solaris 8 Migration Assistant 1.0, to be run on Solaris 10 8/07 with 127111-01 and all subsequent kernel patches and Solaris 10 updates. All users are required to install the patch or a later revision, if available, to have a supportable configuration.
The patch can be found on My Oracle Support.
If the patch is not installed, the product is only supported on the following set of Solaris 10 patches:
127111-01 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
127111-02 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
127111-03 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
The SUNWs8brandr and SUNWs8brandu packages should be installed on your system during the Solaris system installation. If not already installed, the packages are available from the Solaris 10 10/08 media. See step 3.
# pkgadd -d /path/to/media SUNWs8brandr ... Installation of <SUNWs8brandr> was successful. # pkgadd -d /path/to/media SUNWs8brandu ... Installation of <SUNWs8brandu> was successful.
These packages are available from the Oracle Solaris 10 10/08 media.
# pkgadd -d /path/to/media/solarislegacycontainers/1.0.1/Product SUNWs8brandk ... Installation of <SUNWs8brandk> was successful.
The package is available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud for the Solaris 8 Containers 1.0.1 product.
See Also
For more information about installing patches and packages, see Chapter 25, About Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones and Chapter 26, Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones.
Aspects of central patching covered in these chapters do not apply to solaris8 branded zones.
global# patchadd 127111-01
To view the patch on the system, use:
patchadd -p | grep 127111-01
Note - See Oracle Solaris 10 Patch Requirements and Compatibility if Running a Prior Release for more information.
# pkgadd -d /path/to/media/solarislegacycontainers/1.0/Product SUNWs8brandr ... Installation of <SUNWs8brandr> was successful. # pkgadd -d /path/to/media/solarislegacycontainers/1.0/Product SUNWs8brandu ... Installation of <SUNWs8brandu> was successful.
The packages are available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud for the Solaris 8 Containers 1.0.1 product.
See Also
For more information about installing patches and packages, see Chapter 25, About Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones and Chapter 26, Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones.
Aspects of central patching covered in these chapters do not apply to solaris8 branded zones.