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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
1. Introduction to Solaris 10 Resource Management
2. Projects and Tasks (Overview)
3. Administering Projects and Tasks
4. Extended Accounting (Overview)
5. Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)
6. Resource Controls (Overview)
7. Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)
8. Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)
9. Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)
10. Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)
11. Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)
13. Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)
14. Resource Management Configuration Example
15. Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console
16. Introduction to Solaris Zones
17. Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)
18. Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
19. About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)
20. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
21. Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)
22. Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
23. Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
24. Oracle Solaris 10 9/10: Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris System Into a Zone (Tasks)
25. About Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)
What's New in Packaging and Patching When Zones Are Installed
Packaging and Patch Tools Overview
Package Operations Possible in the Global Zone
Package Operations Possible in a Non-Global Zone
How Zone State Affects Patch and Package Operations
About Adding Packages in Zones
Using pkgadd in the Global Zone
Adding a Package to the Global Zone and to All Non-Global Zones
Adding a Package to the Global Zone Only
Adding a Package Installed in the Global Zone to all Non-Global Zones
Using pkgadd in a Non-Global Zone
About Removing Packages in Zones
Using pkgrm in the Global Zone
Removing a Package From the Global Zone and From all Non-Global Zones
Using pkgrm in a Non-Global Zone
Setting Package Parameters for Zones
SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES Package Parameter
SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW Package Parameter
SUNW_PKG_THISZONE Package Parameter
Oracle Solaris 10 8/07: Deferred Activation Patching
Oracle Solaris 10 10/09: Zones Parallel Patching to Reduce Patching Time
Applying Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed
Using patchadd in the Global Zone
Using patchadd in a Non-Global Zone
Interaction of patchadd -G and the pkginfo Variable on a System With Zones
Removing Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed
Using patchrm in the Global Zone
Using patchrm in a Non-Global Zone
27. Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)
28. Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Tasks)
29. Upgrading an Oracle Solaris 10 System That Has Installed Non-Global Zones
30. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems
31. About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone
32. Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)
33. Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)
34. About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)
35. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
36. Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
37. Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
38. Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
Only a subset of the Oracle Solaris packages installed on the global zone are completely replicated when a non-global zone is installed. For example, many packages that contain the Oracle Solaris kernel are not needed in a non-global zone. All non-global zones implicitly share the same Oracle Solaris kernel from the global zone. However, even if a package's data is not required or is not of use in a non-global zone, the knowledge that a package is installed in the global zone might be required in a non-global zone. The information allows package dependencies from the non-global zones to be properly resolved with the global zone.
Packages have parameters that control how their content is distributed and made visible on a system with non-global zones installed. The SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES, SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW, and SUNW_PKG_THISZONE package parameters define the characteristics of packages on a system with zones installed. If desired, system administrators can check these package parameter settings to verify the package's applicability when applying or removing a package in a zone environment. The pkgparam command can be used to view the values for these parameters. For more information on parameters, see Package Parameter Information. See Checking Package Parameter Settings on a System with Zones Installed for usage instructions.
For information about package characteristics and parameters, see the pkginfo(4) man page. For information about displaying package parameter values, see the pkgparam(1) man page.
When a patch is generated for any package, the parameters must be set to the same values as the original package.
Any package that must be interactive, which means that it has a request script, is added to the current zone only. The package is not propagated to any other zone. If an interactive package is added to the global zone, the package is treated as though it is being added by using the pkgadd command with the -G option. For more information about this option, see About Adding Packages in Zones.