[brandz-discuss] brandz zone install: first impressions

[Dan Price]

On Mon 02 Oct 2006 at 05:42PM, Dan Price wrote:
> 
> Eventually I gave up with this ISO and downloaded the one from
> opensolaris.org.  That installed without incident.

I should also note that I tried moving the DVD ISO to a separate directory
and passing that to -d, but had no luck.

A final note is that at the end of (successful) install, I saw:

> Installing zone 'myzone' at root directory '/aux0/myzone'
> from archive '/home/dp/Desktop/centos_fs_image.tar.bz2'
> 
> This process may take several minutes.
> 
> Setting up the initial lx brand environment.
> System configuration modifications complete!
> Setting up the initial lx brand environment.
> System configuration modifications complete!
> Installation of zone 'myzone' completed successfully.
> Details saved to log file:
>     "/aux0/myzone/root/var/log/lx.install.505506.log"

Punctuation is IMHO being overly used, and used inconsistently.
It seems weird that "Setting up... " and "System configuration..." are
repeated twice.  And I don't think the ! is warranted.

I would suggest the following (most of this is borrowed for consistency from
the native zone installer):

> Preparing to install zone <myzone> (brand lx).
> Installing files from archive /home/dp/Desktop/centos_fs_image.tar.bz2.
> Extracting files (may take several minutes)... Done.
> Setting up the initial lx brand environment.
> Zone <myzone> is initialized.
> The file </aux0/lx/root/var/log/lx.install.505506.log> contains a log of the zone installation.

Anyway, this zone booted and worked without incident.  It's neat and the
virtualization is convincing.  Well done.

        -dp

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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp