Limitations

Some functionality available in Solaris 9 is not available inside of Solaris Zones.

General Non-Global Zone Limitations

The following features cannot be configured in a non-global zone:

• Solaris Live Upgrade boot environments

• Solaris Volume Manager metadevices

• DHCP address assignment in a shared-IP zone

• SSL proxy server

In addition, a non-global zone cannot be an NFS server, and dynamic reconfiguration (DR) operations can only be done from the global zone.

Limitations Specific to solaris9 Branded Zones

The following limitations apply to solaris9 branded zones:

• Solaris Auditing and Solaris Basic Security Module Auditing, described in bsmconv(1M) and auditon(2), are not supported. The audit subsystem will always appear to be disabled.

• The CPU performance counter facility described in cpc(3CPC) is not available.

• The following disk and hardware related commands do not work:

  • add_drv(1M)

  • disks(1M)

  • format(1M)

  • fdisk(1M)

  • prtdiag(1M)

  • rem_drv(1M)

The following DTrace providers do not work:

• plockstat

• pid