Accessing a Tape Device from a non-global Zone
This is a quick article on how to assign a tape drive from the global zone for use in a Solaris non-global zone.
In this example, we are assigning /dev/rmt/0n
to the non-global zone sol10z1
:
global# zonecfg -z sol10z1 zonecfg:sol10z1> add device zonecfg:sol10z1:device> set match=/dev/rmt/0n zonecfg:sol10z1:device> end zonecfg:sol10z1> verify zonecfg:sol10z1> commit zonecfg:sol10z1> exit
Note:
- The
zonecfg
must be run on the global zone. - A reboot of the non-global zone is required in order to access the tape drive.
# zoneadm -z sol10z1 reboot
Once the non-global zone has rebooted, you should now have access to your tape drive and be able to use it as normal:
sol10z1# mt status HP Ultrium LTO 4 tape drive: sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0 file no= 0 block no= 3 sol10z1# tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0n /data a /data/ 0 tape blocks a /data/docs/ 0 tape blocks a /data/docs/os/ 0 tape blocks a /data/docs/os/solaris10 0 tape blocks a /data/docs/os/solaris10/data-structures.odt 115 tape blocks a /data/docs/os/solaris10/emc-networker-install.odt 37 tape blocks [...]