Solaris Zones Boot Enhancements

This system resource enhancement is new in the Solaris Express 8/06 release.

Solaris Zones Boot Enhancements now support boot arguments as part of boot and reboot. The following boot arguments are supported at this time:

• -m <smf_options>

• -i </path/to/init/>

• -s

Boot arguments can be passed in the following ways:

• global# zoneadm -z myzone boot -- -m verbose

• global# zoneadm -z myzone reboot -- -m verbose

• myzone# reboot -- -m verbose

Boot arguments can also be persistently specified by using the new bootargs property in the zonecfg command:

zonecfg:myzone> set bootargs="-m verbose"

This setting will be applied unless overridden by the reboot, zoneadm boot or zoneadm reboot commands.

For more information on boot arguments and the bootargs property, see:

• The zoneadm(1M) and zonecfg(1M) man pages

• System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System