[crossbow-discuss] Crossbow integration with Solaris 10/08

[Joe H-Grosse]

Hi James,

...just hoping...
Anyway, thanks for the response - much appreciated.


Br,
Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: James Carlson [mailto:james.d.carlson at sun.com] 
Sent: 07 January 2009 13:37
To: jhg at isnordic.dk
Cc: crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [crossbow-discuss] Crossbow integration with Solaris 10/08

Joe H-Grosse writes:
> >From what I have read, the create-vnic feature in dladm is only available
> within the context of crossbow...?

Correct.

> Specifically, what I am wondering is whether it is at all possible to
> successfully install crossbow on top of Sun's "Standard/sunsolve
supported"
> Solaris 10/08 rather than OpenSolaris, per. Se....
> 
> Is this at all feasible?

No.  It's like asking to install Solaris 9 on top of Solaris 8.

You can upgrade from Solaris 10 to Solaris Express Community Edition,
which contains those bits, but there's no version of the code that
will run on top of Solaris 10.  It's part of the system kernel.

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