HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.01 Release Notes

Workaround:

Use a common user database, such as LDAP or NIS, for the global view and the containers of

each system where containers will be imported.

• The srp or srp_sys command may fail and print the error message, ‘“:POSIX”

is not exported by the Errno module’, followed by a series of perl

diagnostics. If the PERL5LIB environment variable is set to an alternate path, the

referenced perl version may be incompatible with the HP-UX Containers product. The HP-UX

Containers product has been validated with the Perl version E.5.8.8.F, shipped with the

HP-UX 11i OE.

Workaround:

Unset the PERL5LIB environment variable before running the srp or srp_sys commands.

Alternately, set the PERL5LIB environment variable to /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8.

• The srp command does not delete a default route from the system routing

tables when a default route for a started container is changed. The srp

command supports changing a default route for a started container. However, the previous

configuration for the default route is not deleted from the system routing tables.

Workaround:

Delete the default route associated with the old gateway IP address. For example:

# route delete default 192.168.1.1

1.10 Compatibility with other products

The following compatibility issues should be noted before you install the HP-UX Containers product:

HPVM

Installing HP-UX Containers on an HPVM Host is not supported. However, you can install and

configure HP-UX Containers on an HPVM guest.

Trusted Systems

HP-UX Containers is not supported on a system with Trusted Systems enabled.

HP-UX Whitelisting

The HP-UX WhiteListing product cannot be installed on a system with HP-UX Containers

A.03.0 (or later) installed.

ContainmentExt

Enabling HP-UX Containers will set the value of the system tunable cmpt_restrict_tl to 1

to restrict communication between containers using the STREAMS local transport drivers. This

setting will also affect communication between compartments that are not associated with HP-

UX Containers. Refer to cmpt_restrict_tl(5) and compartments(5) for more

information.

1.11 Restrictions on system containers

System containers provide the image of an individual system with its own root file system, system

services, hostname, private user/group management that enable similar or different workloads to

execute independently on the same physical system. Although each system container appears to be a

separate system to the local user, all system containers are executing within a single instance of the