Opinion for review: 2006/357 Crossbow - Network Virtualization and Resource Partitioning

[Michael Lim]

On 12/01/08 16:41, Erik Nordmark wrote:
> Kais Belgaied wrote:
>> Here's what the project team (work done by Eric & Mike Cc'ed) 
>> implemented to address the upgrade :
>>
>> In both bfu and the postinstall script of SUNWcnetr:
>> - We parse /etc/hostname*.* and come up with list of linknames & VIDs 
>> configured in the global zone.
>> - From the output of zonecfg info net of each configured zone, we get 
>> the liist of PPA hack VLANs for the zones.
>
> Please verify that you can run zonecfg info for an alternate root 
> which is a different OS release than what is currently booted.
>
I just verified this with our latest crossbow build running zonecfg 
against an alternate root
with a pre-ip-instances zone.

ns-t2000-17: crossbow
nemo2: s10 (01/2005) with zone1

# zonecfg -z zone1 -R /net/nemo2 info zonepath
zonepath: /net/nemo2/export/zone1

# zonecfg -z zone1 -R /net/nemo2 info ip-type
ip-type: shared

-Mike

>> - With  these two lists, we add the appropriate  dladm create-vlan 
>> commands to /var/svc/profile/upgrade_datalink
>> Upon reboot, the right vlan data links get created.
>>
>> I'll capture that in the  section 4.3 of the opinion.
>
> Makes sense in the opinion. Project team needs to work out the 
> implementation detail above.
>
>   Erik