Configuration and Administration

The solaris9 brand supports the whole root non-global zone model. All of the required Solaris 9 software and any additional packages are installed into the private file systems of the zone.

The zonecfg(1M) utility is used to configure a solaris9 branded zone. Once a branded zone has been installed, that zone's brand cannot be changed or removed. The zoneadm(1M) utility is used to report the zone's brand type and administer the zone. The zlogin(1) utility is used to log in to the zone.

The solaris9 brand installer supports installing the zone from an image of an installed Solaris 9 system. This can be a full flash_archive(4), cpio(1) archive optionally compressed with gzip(1) or bzip2(1), or pax(1) xustar archive. The image can also be a level 0 ufsdump(1M), or a path to the top-level of a Solaris 9 system's root directory tree. The zone cannot be installed from standard Solaris 9 distribution media. The zoneadm(1M) brand-specific subcommands accept the following arguments:

install [-a archive] [-d path] [-s] [-u] [-v]

Install the specified Solaris 9 system image into the zone. Either the -u or -p option is required and either the -a or -d option is required.

-a archive

The path to a flash_archive(4), ufsdump(1M), or pax(1) xustar archive of an installed Solaris 9 system. The cpio archives may be compressed using the gzip(1) or the bzip(1) commands.

-d path

The path to the root directory of an installed Solaris 9 system.

-p

Preserve the system configuration after installing the zone.

-s

Install silently.

-u

Run sys-unconfig(1M) on the zone after installing it.

-v

Verbose output from the install process.