solaris

Turn existing VMDK into ZFS VOL and use ISCSI to access it from different system
jhm – Fri, 2011 – 07 – 22 14:09

I have several servers running Solaris 10u9 with VirtualBox server installed. Each of those hosts can manage several guest. Currently I use VirtualBox multiattach image types to clone guests from master images. This doesn't require me to use clonehd on the master images, which is a very time consuming process.

Your rating: None Average: 4 (2 votes)

pkgadd doesn't really handle filesystems with more than 5TB of free space
jhm – Wed, 2008 – 12 – 10 17:18

I just ran into this problem myself. A coworker found this site. The issue is also discussed at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=102769

They problem surfaced when I tried to install packages in a zone I had created on a zfs filesystem that happened to be on a x4500 with 15 Terabytes of free space.

The work around is to slap a quota on the the ZFS that the zone sits on.

Dynamic zone manipulation
jhm – Wed, 2007 – 09 – 05 17:44

Some parameters of a zone can be modified while the zone is running

No votes yet

Dynamic Zone Changes
jhm – Mon, 2007 – 04 – 02 23:09

how to update a running zone

Parallels and Solaris
jhm – Thu, 2007 – 01 – 18 10:44

When adding or changing disks to a parallels VM, you might see the following error message [image:282 style='float: right']

To fix it, boot into the failsafe mode and run bootadm on the mounted root disk like in the following image [image:283]

No votes yet

grub fixed
jhm – Thu, 2006 – 10 – 12 10:10

grub failed
jhm – Thu, 2006 – 10 – 12 10:07

wmctrl - A command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager
jhm – Thu, 2005 – 12 – 15 10:10

The wmctrl program is a UNIX/Linux command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager

First day back at Sun
jhm – Mon, 2005 – 06 – 06 14:56

description:
Today is my first day as a full-time employee back at Sun

NFS via ssh tunnel
jhm – Sat, 2005 – 06 – 04 06:49

Tunneling NFS traffic via ssh

Having received a couple of questions lately about Solaris support for ssh tunneling of NFS traffic, a short description of how it can be done and what happens to NFS when ssh tunneling is used.