[geeks] Project Etude

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 12:42:38PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> What I had -wanted- to do was run Solaris 10 with several zones, each
> with a different system ID to match the original hardware to which the
> license-server was licensed[1].  However, since the system ID is cached
> in (true) kernel memory, it's shared across zones.  In fact, nothing you
> can do in a zone is supposed to give you write access to it.  So, we
> have a small pile of v210s, all running load averages of 0.00, each
> running a hostid hack and one license server.  What a wonderful waste of
> electricity.

You can't run the hostid hack within a zone?

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas