Infrastructure Software

Solaris 10 runs both Solaris 8 and 9 Container software. yust download the correct software from : http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/containers/getit.jsp

There is lots of documentation on how to configure but its no different then a native zones/container.
You can even create a Solaris 10 zone (not the same as native) using the solaris 9 container as a template.

I've used it very succesfully to migrate a number of old solaris 8 and 9 servers and had no problems what so ever.

Thanks,

I have a flar file from a system long gone. They want to use it to create a Solaris 9 container on their Solaris 10 server. The file is perhaps from 2005. Lets hope it can work.
Thanks.

You can get a flar for Solaris 9 on the same page as the container download btw. Same link as above [http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/containers/getit.jsp|http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/containers/getit.jsp]

They need to have that old flar file. It has software in it which can not be reproduced. It needs to be that old flar file. Is that not workable?

if you have the sol9 container sw installed ok on sol10, you should be able to use the flar ok. i have done so with some older 8/9 images. validate you have enough free space. also, make sure that the key items you need to work from your old flar are not things that interact with the kernel (drivers, etc).

Also you might consider setting the hostid, this is easily overlooked. It might not be nessesary butin some cases (license) this might be relevant.