One of the problems you can encounter when attaching a Solaris zone (not a kernel zone) on a new host, is that the global zone may not have packages installed that are needed by the non-global zone. For example: Take a look in the output file that it references for the attach. You are looking…
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If you are trying to make the switch from snoop to tshark in Solaris 11.3, you might have come across a problem where the filters don’t seem to work. In Solaris 11.3.10.7.0, any filter I added, including simple ones, would cause all packets to not be captured: Eliminating the filter allowed packets to be captured….
Read More →There is a great article about configuring multiple package internal package repositories here. However, if you are looking to configure these behind an Apache proxy, you may have trouble. I certainly did. The issue boiled down to Apache not wanting to allow encoded slashes by default. This resulted in Apache discarding the requests from pkg…
Read More →Overview Solaris 11.2 (beta) has some powerful network virtualization features. We use zones quite a bit at work, but on the network side with zones we have mostly used anet configurations where VNICs are auto-created, perhaps also specifying a VLAN id. Powerful, easy, and best of all, very efficient configuration and virtualization. But that only scratches…
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