Sun Microsystems 10 User level NFS server in a local zone, Using a DVD drive in the local zone

Version 3.1-enSolaris 10 Container Guide - 3.1 5. Cookbooks Effective: 30/11/2009

5.1.12.5. User level NFS server in a local zone

[ug] The native NFS in the Solaris kernel can currently not be used as a server within a local zone.

Instead, the unfs3d – an OpenSource NFS server – can be used (see the unfs3 project at SourceForge) which runs completely in userland and is therefore not subject to this limitation. To do so, the RPC configuration must be changed and the unfs3d called up instead of the Solaris NFS daemon.

5.1.12.6. Using a DVD drive in the local zone

[dd]If access to a DVD drive is required in a local zone, the DVD drive for the zone must be assigned to the local zone in the zone configuration. In addition, it must be prevented that the volume daemon of the global zone automatically mounts the DVD once it is placed into the drive. To do so, the smf- service svc:/system/filesystem/volfs in the global zone must be turned off. This service is not available to local zones. Therefore, DVDs in local zones must be mounted by command line. Once the zone has been restarted, the device is available to the zone. This is verifiable by the entry in /dev/dsk. It is furthermore visible from the global zone that a device entry now exists in / zones/zone1/dev/dsk.

zonecfg:zone1> add device

zonecfg:zone1:device> set match=/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2 zonecfg:zone1:device> end

zonecfg:zone1> commit zonecfg:zone1> exit

global# svcadm disable volfs
. . . . reboot der Zone . . . .
zone1# ls /dev/dsk
c2t0d0s2
zone1# mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2 /mnt
zone1# df -k /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2
Filesystem	kbytes	used	avail capacity		Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2	2643440 2643440		0	100%	/mnt
global# df -kZ /zones/zone1/root/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2
/Filesystem	kbytes used	avail capacity		Mounted on
/zones/zone1/root/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2
	2643440 2643440	0	100%	/zones/zone1/root/mnt

Alternatively, the DVD can be mounted as a loopback file system in one or several zones. In this case, it must be mounted by the global zone and cannot be ejected until all zone loopback mounts are ended.

5.1.12.7. Dynamic configuration of devices

[ug] Devices can be assigned to a zone statically (permanently) by zonecfg. To activate them, however, it is necessary to reboot the zone:

global# zonecfg -z test zonecfg:test> add device zonecfg:test:device> set match=/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1 zonecfg:test:device> end

zonecfg:test> verify zonecfg:test> commit zonecfg:test> exit

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