solaris8(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros solaris8(5)NAMEsolaris8 - Solaris 8 branded zone
DESCRIPTION
The solaris8 brand uses the branded zones framework described in
brands(5) to enable Solaris 8 binary applications to run unmodified on
a machine with the latest Solaris Operating System kernel.
The solaris8 brand includes the tools necessary to install a Solaris 8
system image into a non-global zone. The brand supports the execution
of 32-bit and 64-bit Solaris 8 applications on SPARC machines running
the latest Solaris operating system.
Configuration and Administration
The solaris8 brand supports the whole root non-global zone model. All
of the required Solaris 8 software and any additional packages are
installed into the private file systems of the zone.
The zonecfg(1M) utility is used to configure a solaris8 branded zone.
Once a branded zone has been installed, that zone's brand cannot be
changed or removed. The zoneadm(1M) utility is used to report the
zone's brand type and administer the zone. The zlogin(1) utility is
used to log in to the zone.
The solaris8 brand installer supports installing the zone from an image
of an installed Solaris 8 system. This can be a full flash_archive(4),
cpio(1) or pax(1) "xustar" archive. The cpio archive can be compressed
with gzip(1) or bzip2(1). The image can also be a level 0 ufsdump(1M),
or a path to the top-level of a Solaris 8 system's root directory tree.
The zone cannot be installed from standard Solaris 8 distribution
media. The zoneadm brand-specific subcommands accept the following
arguments:
install [-a archive] [-d path] [-p] [-s] [-u] [-v]
Install the specified Solaris 8 system image into the zone. Either
the -u or -p option is required and either the -a or -d option is
required.
-a archive
The path to a flash_archive(4), cpio(1), or pax(1) "xustar" ar‐
chive, or a level 0 ufsdump(1M), of an installed Solaris 8 sys‐
tem. Cpio archives may be compressed using gzip(1) or
bzip2(1).
-d path
The path to the root directory of an installed Solaris 8 sys‐
tem.
-p
Preserve the system configuration after installing the zone.
-s
Install silently.
-u
Run sys-unconfig(1M) on the zone after installing it.
-v
Verbose output from the install process.
Application Support
The solaris8 zone only supports user-level Solaris 8 applications. You
cannot use Solaris 8 device drivers, Solaris 8 kernel modules, or
Solaris 10-only file systems, such as zfs(1M) delegated datasets, from
inside a solaris8 zone. However, you can add fs resources in zonecfg
with type=zfs.
Native Solaris debugging tools such as DTrace (see dtrace(1M)) can be
applied to Solaris 8 processes executing inside the zone, but the tools
themselves must be running in the global zone.
Zone Migration
During the process of installing the zone a "physical to virtual" con‐
version is automatically performed. After a solaris8 branded zone is
migrated to a new host, this process should be repeated to ensure that
the zone is optimized to run on the new host. The first time that the
zone attempts to boot on the new host it will detect this situation and
the zone will not boot until the following command is run:
/usr/lib/brand/solaris8/s8_p2v zonename
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWs8brandr, SUNWs8brandu │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Evolving │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSObrands(5), zones(5), zoneadm(1M), zonecfg(1M), zlogin(1), cpio(1),
flarcreate(1M), flash_archive(4), pax(1), ufsdump(1M), gzip(1),
bzip2(1), dtrace(1M), zfs(1M),
SunOS 5.11 07/09/28 solaris8(5)
