Zones-related SMF services in the global zone include the following:
Starts each zone that has autoboot=true.
Performs zone installation on first boot, if needed.
Used by the packaging system to provide zones access to the system repository.
Caching proxy server that caches pkg data and metadata used during zone installation and other pkg operations. See the pkg(1) and pkg(5) man pages.
Controls zonestatd.
The svc:/application/pkg/zones-proxy-client:default zones proxy client SMF service runs only in the non-global zone. The service is used by the packaging system to provide zones access to the system repository.