Mount an iso file on Solaris and present it to a zone

When installing software on servers, it is not practical to go the the serverroom (if possible at all), just to insert a cdrom in the machine. Just create an iso with your favorite cd burning software (brasero?), and follow these steps.

On the global zone (the iso cdrom.iso is in /var/tmp):

# mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /var/tmp/cdrom.iso` /mnt

# ls /mnt
this_file_is_on_the_cdrom.txt

Make it available to the virtual machine (being /zones/zone01/root the / of the zone zone01):

# mount -F lofs /mnt /zones/zone01/root/mnt

You can now read the cdrom on the zone:

# zlogin zone01 ls /mnt
this_file_is_on_the_cdrom.txt

That’s it.

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