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Can the patch levels between a zone migrated to the target machine using update on attach and a zone created on the target machine be different?

April 26, 2017different levels Machine migrated patch target zone

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Can the patch levels between a zone migrated to the target machine using update on attach and a zone created on the target machine be different?

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Yes. It is normal and expected that a migrated zone and a newly installed zone would have different patches. The update on attach feature looks at the zone you are migrating and determines which packages need to be updated to match the new host. Only those packages are updated. By definition, the rest of the packages (with their patches) are allowed to vary from zone to zone. You can think of this as setting up a number of zones and then, over time, the zone administrators for those zones install and remove packages and apply different patch streams to the packages that they are allowed to change in their zones. The update on attach feature for zone migration is available in Solaris Express, and it was added in the Solaris 10 10/08 release.