[ug-bosug] Is it possible to have a "pure S10"zone running on a Solaris Express box?

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hi ,

Is it possible to have a Solaris 10 zone inside running inside a Solaris
Nevada global zone?

If I was unable to phrase my question correctly, let me give a use case:

I use SXDE 1/08 on my laptop as my desktop OS. Let's say I create an SVR4
.pkg. I want to be sure that the .pkg will deploy and run correctly on a
production S10 system.
Short of manually copying over the .pkg to a production S10 box and testing
it out, can I use a zone with the S10 environment for testing purposes?

The zone would have the same versions of ON / X etc which were shipped with
S10 U4.

A lot of software has been updated in Nevada ( eg GNOME libs) but a lot of
software remains unchanged as well ( the CDE/Motif libs, the vi editor, the
banner command :p , libc?? (not sure ) )

So would it be possible to create a zone having the _delta_ present inside (
delta of S10 ==> Nevada b79b).
I am assuming the unchanged/unmodified libs/executables can be kept as is (
just like /sbin from the global zone is available to the local zone , AFAIK
)

Is this possible?

-- 
Manish Chakravarty
http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/
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