SRSS In a Zone

Several of us were talking in #opensolaris tonight and couldn’t be sure whether or not you could install the Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 in a non-global zone. So I figured I’d try it: 

...
checkinstall[SUNWuti]: installation not permitted in local zone

Installation of  was suspended (administration).
No changes were made to the system.
utinstall: fatal, SRSS installer installation failed

So… no, without hacking on this thing you can’t. Now we know. :)

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2 Responses to “SRSS In a Zone”

  1. jacob ritorto says:
    February 2, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    This is a real bummer. Has anyone tried harder to make it work? I’d like to run srss on our T2000, but won’t do it because Policy (my own) dictates that nothing be installed in global zone on this machine. So I’m stuck with a dedicated Solaris pc that does srss for us. Lame. Do you think that if the zone were installed dense (full root copy, etc.) that srss would work? Would that be safe? Would it be possible to circumnavigate Sun’s srss installer logic that aborts if installing in zone? What’s the hacking you mention above? I’d be happy to hack a non-global zone to make this work, but can’t touch the global.

    thx

    jake

  2. Bartholomew says:
    January 15, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Very interesting article: “SRSS In a Zone”