Release Notes for HP 9000 Containers A.03.01 (Dec 2011)

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1. Changes in HP 9000 Containers A.03.01

2. Changes in HP 9000 Containers A.03.00

3. HP 9000 Containers product overview

4. HP 9000 Containers documentation

5. Acquiring and installing HP 9000 Containers

6. Migrating from HP 9000 Containers v3

7. Migrating from HP 9000 Containers v1

8. Unsupported features in HP 9000 Containers A.03.01

9. Known issues in HP 9000 Containers A.03.01

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1. Changes in HP 9000 Containers A.03.01

1.1 Defects fixed

QXCR1001165249: Mount command fails inside hp9ksys container with

VxFS v7 file systems

QXCR1001165259: ipcs command reports wrong segment IDs inside HP 9000

containers

QXCR1001174542: NIS & LDAP clients fail to start during hp9ksys

container startup

QXCR1001177560: Need to copy libdld from host into container along with

dld.sl

HP 9000 Containers A.03.01.01 Release Notes 1

Summary of content (5 pages)

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1.2 Enhancements QXCR1001165281: [ENH] Support for tape archives in HP 9000 image recovery script QXCR1001165311: [ENH] Mechanism to allow mounts from global at hp9ksys container startup QXCR1001165329: [ENH] Support for patching of disallowed commands inside hp9ksys containers QXCR1001178936: [ENH] Automation for kernel tunable setting during container configuration 2. Changes in HP 9000 Containers A.03.00 2.
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The transitioned applications reside in a chroot environment (called the HP 9000 Container) along with the HP 9000 commands and libraries. The HP 9000 Container has its own IP address which can be used to login, start/stop applications and network. The HP 9000 Container can be started, stopped, exported, imported and deleted.
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5.3 Compatibility with HP-UX Containers HP 9000 Containers A.01.0x is supported with SRP version A.02.0x only. No version of HP 9000 Containers is supported with HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.00. HP 9000 Containers A.03.0x is supported with HP-UX Containers version A.03.01 (or later). 6. Migrating from HP 9000 Containers v3 HP 9000 Containers A.03.01 can be installed on a system with no impact to containers created with HP 9000 Containers A.03.00.
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8.4 8.5 HP 9000 system container limitations 8.4.1 No support for trusted mode 8.4.2 No support for accounting/auditing HP 9000 classic container limitations 8.5.1 No support for inetd inside container (telnet, ftp, remsh, rlogin, rcp etc) 8.5.2 No support for SD (Software Distributor) tools and patching 8.5.3 No support for multiple containers on the same HP-UX instance 8.5.