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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris 9 Containers Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers |
1. Introduction to Solaris 9 Containers
2. Obtaining and Installing the Software
Solaris 9 Containers Versions and System Requirements
Installing the Solaris 9 Containers 1.0.1 Software on the Oracle Solaris 10 Host System
Installing the Solaris 9 Containers 1.0 Software on the Solaris 10 Host System
3. Assessing a Solaris 9 System and Creating an Archive
4. Configuring a Solaris9 Zone
5. Installing the solaris9 Zone
6. Booting a Zone and Zone Migration
Instructions for downloading the Solaris 9 container 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 9 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 9 Containers 1.0.1, for systems running:
Oracle Solaris 10 10/08 or later
Kernels 137137-07 or later
The packages SUNWs9brandr and SUNWs9brandu are installed on the system during an Oracle Solaris 10 installation.
SUNWs9brandk is only available from the 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 9 Containers 1.0, which is only available from the 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 9 Containers 1.0 media have been updated to include the latest functionality in Oracle Solaris 9 Containers patch 138899-01.
The product download also includes a README file containing installation instructions for both versions, and a sample Solaris 9 flash archive image provided for validation purposes.
The SUNWs9brandr and SUNWs9brandu packages should be installed 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 SUNWs9brandr ... Installation of <SUNWs9brandr> was successful. # pkgadd -d /path/to/media SUNWs9brandu ... Installation of <SUNWs9brandu> was successful. ...
These packages are available from the Solaris 10 10/08 media.
# pkgadd -d /path/to/media/solarislegacycontainers/1.0.1/Product SUNWs9brandk ... Installation of <SUNWs9brandk> was successful.
The file is available for download from the My Oracle Support page for the Solaris 9 Containers 1.0.1 product.
See Also
If you need more information about installing patches and packages, see Chapter 25, About Packages and Patches on a 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 a 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 solaris9 branded zones.
global# patchadd 127111-01
To view the patch on the system, use:
patchadd -p | grep 127111-01
# pkgadd -d /path/to/media SUNWs9brandr ... Installation of <SUNWs9brandr> was successful. # pkgadd -d /path/to/media SUNWs9brandu ... Installation of <SUNWs9brandu> was successful. # pkgadd -d /path/to/media SUNWs9brandk ... Installation of <SUNWs9brandk> was successful.
The package is available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud for the Solaris 9 Containers 1.0.1 product.
See Also
If you need more information about installing patches and packages, see Chapter 25, About Packages and Patches on a 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 a 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 solaris9 branded zones.