Cloning a non global zone (NGZ)

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1. Become superuser (root)

2. Create a new zone configuration file

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zonecfg -z appint05 export -f appint06_zone

or copy over existing config and modify it with new hostname and IP address.

3. Halt source zone

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zoneadm -z appint05 halt

4. Create a new zone

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zonecfg -z appint06 -f /zonepool/zone_configs/appint06_zone

5. Installing new zone by cloning from source zone

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zoneadm -z <destination> clone <source>
zoneadm -z appint06 clone appint05

6. Start up source zone

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zoneadm -z appint05 boot

7. Create a sysidcfg file

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system_locale=en_US
terminal=vt100
network_interface=PRIMARY {
        hostname=appint06
}
name_service=DNS {
        domain_name=ols.minimed.com
        name_server=10.0.16.123,10.0.16.130,10.48.32.54
        search=ols.minimed.com,corp.minimed.com,corp.medtronic.com
}
security_policy=NONE
nfs4_domain=dynamic
root_password=2JklIXb7E4dQI
timezone=US/Pacific

8. Copy over to the newly created non global zone

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cp /zonepool/zone_configs/appint06_sysidcfg /zonepool/zones/appint06/root/etc/sysidcfg

9. Start up the new zone

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zoneadm -z appint06 boot

10. Log into new zone's console

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zlogin -C appint06

This should save all the interactive system settings and the new system should come all the way up to login prompt.

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This would be step 6.5 to prevent all manual setup for DNS, timezone, root password and so on.

Create a new sysidcfg file with similar config in it:

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system_locale=en_US
terminal=vt100
network_interface=PRIMARY {
        hostname=appint06
}
name_service=DNS {
        domain_name=ols.minimed.com
        name_server=10.0.16.123,10.0.16.130,10.48.32.54
        search=ols.minimed.com,corp.minimed.com,corp.medtronic.com
}
security_policy=NONE
nfs4_domain=dynamic
root_password=2JklIXb7E4dQI
timezone=US/Pacific

Then, copy this newly created sysidcfg file to /zonepool/zones/appint06/root/etc from global zone.

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cp /zonepool/zone_configs/appint06_sysidcfg /zonepool/zones/apptest03/root/etc/sysidcfg

This should save all the interactive system settings.