System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones

ProcedureHow to Reboot a Zone

You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.

  1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

    To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

  2. List the zones running on the system.


    global# zoneadm list -v
    

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:


    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              native     shared
     1  my-zone  running      /export/home/my-zone           native     shared
  3. Use the zoneadm command with the -z reboot option to reboot the zone my-zone.


    global# zoneadm -z my-zone reboot
    
  4. List the zones on the system again to verify that my-zone has been rebooted.


    global# zoneadm list -v
    

    You will see a display that is similar to the following:


    ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
     0  global   running      /                              native     shared
     2  my-zone  running      /export/home/my-zone           native     shared

    Tip –

    Note that the zone ID for my-zone has changed. The zone ID generally changes after a reboot.