What's New in This Chapter?

Solaris 10 6/06: Support for the ZFS file system, including the ability to add a dataset resource in a native non-global zone, has been added. See Resource Type Properties for more information.

Solaris 10 11/06: Support for configurable privileges has been added. See Solaris 10 11/06 and Later: Configurable Privileges.

Solaris 10 8/07: Support for the following features has been added to the zonecfg command:

• Better integration of resource management features and zones. The zonecfg command can now be used to configure temporary pools, memory limits, the default scheduling class for the zone, and resource control aliases. You no longer have to perform any manual steps to set up resource management. New resource controls were added:

  • zone.max-locked-memory

  • zone.max-msg-ids

  • zone.max-sem-ids

  • zone.max-shm-ids

  • zone.max-shm-memory

  • zone.max-swap

• Ability to use the zonecfg command in the global zone.

• Ability to specify an IP type for a zone. The two IP types available for non-global zones are shared-IP and exclusive-IP.

• Ability to use DTrace in a zone by adding required privileges through the limitpriv property.

• Ability to use boot arguments in a zone through the bootargs property.

Solaris 10 10/08: The defrouter property has been added to the net resource in the zonecfg utility for shared-IP non-global zones. You can set the default router for the network interface through this property.

For a complete listing of new Solaris 10 features and a description of Solaris releases, see Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 What’s New.