About Removing Packages in Zones

Creating and Using Oracle^® Solaris Zones

Document Information

Using This Documentation

Product Documentation Library

Access to Oracle Support

Feedback

Chapter 1 How to Plan and Configure Non-Global Zones

Evaluating the Current System Setup

Disk Space Requirements

Restricting Zone Size

Determine the Zone Host Name and the Network Requirements

Zone Host Name

Shared-IP Zone Network Address

IPv4 Zone Network Address

IPv6 Zone Network Address

Exclusive-IP Zone Network Address

File System Configuration

Creating, Revising, and Deleting Non-Global Zone Configurations

Configuring, Verifying, and Committing a Zone

How to Configure the Zone

Where to Go From Here

How to Display the Configuration of a Non-Global Zone

Using the zonecfg Command to Modify a Zone Configuration

How to Modify a Resource Type in a Zone Configuration

How to Clear a Property in a Zone Configuration

How to Rename a Zone by Using the zonecfg Command

How to Add a Dedicated Device to a Zone

How to Set zone.cpu-shares in the Global Zone

Using the zonecfg Command to Revert or Remove a Zone Configuration

How to Revert a Zone Configuration

How to Delete a Zone Configuration

Chapter 2 About Installing, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones

Zone Installation and Administration Concepts

Zone Construction

How Zones Are Installed

The zoneadmd Daemon

The zsched Zone Scheduler

Zone Application Environment

About Shutting Down, Halting, Rebooting, and Uninstalling Zones

Zone autoboot Setting

Uninstalling a Zone

About Cloning Non-Global Zones

Chapter 3 Installing, Booting, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones

Zone Installation Task Map

Installing and Booting Zones

(Optional) How to Verify a Configured Zone Before It Is Installed

How to Install a Configured Zone

How to Obtain the UUID of an Installed Non-Global Zone

How to Mark an Installed Non-Global Zone Incomplete

(Optional) How to Transition the Installed Zone to the Ready State

How to Boot a Zone

How to Boot a Zone in Single-User Mode

Where to Go From Here

Shutting Down, Halting, Rebooting, Uninstalling, Cloning, and Deleting Non-Global Zones Task Map

Shutting Down, Halting, Rebooting, and Uninstalling Zones

How to Shutdown a Zone

How to Halt a Zone

How to Reboot a Zone

How to Use the zoneadm Command to Rename a Zone

How to Uninstall a Zone

Cloning a Non-Global Zone on the Same System

How to Clone a Zone

Moving a Non-Global Zone

How to Move a Zone That Is Not on Shared Storage

Deleting a Non-Global Zone From the System

How to Remove a Non-Global Zone

Chapter 4 About Non-Global Zone Login

zlogin Command

Internal Zone Configuration

System Configuration Interactive Tool

Example Zone Configuration Profiles

Non-Global Zone Login Methods

Interactive and Non-Interactive Modes

Interactive Mode

Non-Interactive Mode

Chapter 5 Logging In to Non-Global Zones

Initial Zone Boot and Zone Login Procedures Task Map

Logging In to a Zone

How to Create a Configuration Profile

How to Log In to the Zone Console to Perform the Internal Zone Configuration

How to Log In to the Zone Console

How to Use Interactive Mode to Access a Zone

How to Use Non-Interactive Mode to Access a Zone

How to Exit a Non-Global Zone

How to Use Failsafe Mode to Enter a Zone

How to Use zlogin to Shut Down a Zone

Enabling a Service

Printing the Name of the Current Zone

Chapter 6 Live Zone Reconfiguration

About Live Zone Reconfiguration

About Making Temporary Changes

About Making Changes to the Configuration

About Applying Changes to the Configuration

Live Zone Reconfiguration Examples

How to Inspect the Live Configuration of the Running Zone

How to View a Possible Configuration by Using a Dry Run

How to Make Persistent Configuration Changes and Apply the Changes

How to Temporarily Add an anet Resource to the Running Zone

How to Make Temporary Changes to the Running Zone

How to Recover From a Failure While Committing Temporary Changes

Chapter 7 About Zone Migrations and the zonep2vchk Tool

About Zone Migration

Physical to Virtual Migration (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual Migration (V2V) Usage

Choosing a Migration Strategy

About Zone Migration Tools and Utilities

Using Zones on Shared Storage for Zone Migration

Using Oracle Solaris Unified Archives for Zone Migration

Using zfs Archives for Zone Migration

Preparing for System Migrations Using the zonep2vchk Tool

About the zonep2vchk Tool

Types of Analyses

Information Produced

Chapter 8 Migrating Oracle Solaris Systems and Migrating Non-Global Zones

Migrating a Non-Global Zone to a Different Machine

About Migrating a Zone

How to Migrate a Non-Global Zone Using Shared Storage

How to Migrate a Non-Global Zone Using Unified Archives

How to Migrate A Non-Global Zone Using ZFS Archives

Migrating a Zone From a Machine That Is Not Usable

Migrating an Oracle Solaris System Into a Non-Global Zone

About Migrating an Oracle Solaris System Into a solaris Non-Global Zone

Scanning the Source System With zonep2vchk

How to Create an Archive of the System Image on a Network Device

How to Configure the Zone on the Target System

Installing the Zone on the Target System

Chapter 9 About Automatic Installation and Packages on an Oracle Solaris 11.2 System With Zones Installed

Image Packaging System Software on Systems Running the Oracle Solaris 11.2 Release

Zones Packaging Overview

About Packages and Zones

About Adding Packages in Systems With Zones Installed

Using pkg in the Global Zone

Using the pkg install Command in a Non-Global Zone

Adding Additional Packages in a Zone by Using a Custom AI Manifest

About Removing Packages in Zones

Package Information Query

Proxy Configuration on a System That Has Installed Zones

Configuring the Proxy in the Global Zone

Overriding system-repository Proxies by Using https_proxy and http_proxy

Parallel Zone Updates

How Zone State Affects Package Operations

Chapter 10 About Oracle Solaris Zones Administration

Global Zone Visibility and Access

Process ID Visibility in Zones

System Observability in Zones

Reporting Active Zone Statistics with the zonestat Utility

Monitoring Non-Global Zones Using the fsstat Utility

Non-Global Zone Node Name

Running an NFS Server in a Zone

File Systems and Non-Global Zones

The o nosuid Option

Mounting File Systems in Zones

Unmounting File Systems in Zones

Security Restrictions and File System Behavior

Non-Global Zones as NFS Clients

Use of mknod Prohibited in a Zone

Traversing File Systems

Restriction on Accessing A Non-Global Zone From the Global Zone

Networking in Shared-IP Non-Global Zones

Shared-IP Zone Partitioning

Shared-IP Network Interfaces

IP Traffic Between Shared-IP Zones on the Same Machine

Oracle Solaris IP Filter in Shared-IP Zones

IP Network Multipathing in Shared-IP Zones

Networking in Exclusive-IP Non-Global Zones

Exclusive-IP Zone Partitioning

Exclusive-IP Data-Link Interfaces

IP Traffic Between Exclusive-IP Zones on the Same Machine

Oracle Solaris IP Filter in Exclusive-IP Zones

IP Network Multipathing in Exclusive-IP Zones

Device Use in Non-Global Zones

/dev and the /devices Namespace

Exclusive-Use Devices

Device Driver Administration

Utilities That Do Not Work or Are Modified in Non-Global Zones

Utilities That Do Not Work in Non-Global Zones

SPARC: Utility Modified for Use in a Non-Global Zone

Allowed Utilities With Security Implications

Running Applications in Non-Global Zones

Resource Controls Used in Non-Global Zones

Fair Share Scheduler on a System With Zones Installed

FSS Share Division in a Global or Non-Global Zone

Share Balance Between Zones

Extended Accounting on a System With Zones Installed

Privileges in a Non-Global Zone

Using IP Security Architecture in Zones

IP Security Architecture in Shared-IP Zones

IP Security Architecture in Exclusive-IP Zones

Using Oracle Solaris Auditing in Zones

Core Files in Zones

Running DTrace in a Non-Global Zone

About Backing Up an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed

Backing Up Loopback File System Directories

Backing Up Your System From the Global Zone

Backing Up Individual Non-Global Zones on Your System

Creating Oracle Solaris ZFS Backups

Determining What to Back Up in Non-Global Zones

Backing Up Application Data Only

General Database Backup Operations

Tape Backups

About Restoring Non-Global Zones

Commands Used on a System With Zones Installed

Chapter 11 Administering Oracle Solaris Zones

Using the ppriv Utility

How to List Oracle Solaris Privileges in the Global Zone

How to List the Non-Global Zone's Privilege Set

How to List a Non-Global Zone's Privilege Set With Verbose Output

Using the zonestat Utility in a Non-Global Zone

How to Use the zonestat Utility to Display a Summary of CPU and Memory Utilization

How to Use the zonestat Utility to Report on the Default pset

Using zonestat to Report Total and High Utilization

How to Obtain Network Bandwidth Utilization for Exclusive-IP Zones

Reporting Per-Zone fstype Statistics for all Zones

How to Use the z Option to Monitor Activity in Specific Zones

How to Display Per-Zone fstype Statistics for all Zones

Using DTrace in a Non-Global Zone

How to Use DTrace

Checking the Status of SMF Services in a Non-Global Zone

How to Check the Status of SMF Services From the Command Line

How to Check the Status of SMF Services From Within a Zone

Mounting File Systems in Running Non-Global Zones

How to Use LOFS to Mount a File System

How to Delegate a ZFS Dataset to a Non-Global Zone

Adding Non-Global Zone Access to Specific File Systems in the Global Zone

How to Add Access to CD or DVD Media in a Non-Global Zone

Using IP Network Multipathing on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed

How to Use IP Network Multipathing in Exclusive-IP Non-Global Zones

How to Extend IP Network Multipathing Functionality to Shared-IP Non-Global Zones

Administering Data-Links in Exclusive-IP Non-Global Zones

How to Use dladm show-linkprop

How to Use dladm to Assign Temporary Data-Links

How to Use dladm reset-linkprop

Using the Fair Share Scheduler on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed

How to Set FSS Shares in the Global Zone Using the prctl Command

How to Change the zone.cpu-shares Value in a Zone Dynamically

Using Rights Profiles in Zone Administration

How to Assign the Zone Management Profile

Backing Up an Oracle Solaris System With Installed Zones

How to Use ZFSsend to Perform Backups

x64: How to Print a Copy of a Zone Configuration

Recreating a Non-Global Zone

How to Recreate an Individual Non-Global Zone

Chapter 12 Configuring and Administering Immutable Zones

Read-Only Zone Overview

Configuring Read-Only Zones

zonecfg file-mac-profile Property

zonecfg add dataset Resource Policy

zonecfg add fs Resource Policy

Administering Read-Only Zones

zoneadm list p Display

Options for Booting a Read-Only Zone With a Writable Root File System

Using the zlogin Command for File Editing or Adding Packages

Immutable Global Zones

Configuring an Global Immutable Zone

Maintaining an Immutable Global Zone

Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems

Exclusive-IP Zone Is Using Device, so dladm reset-linkprop Fails

Incorrect Privilege Set Specified in Zone Configuration

Zone Does Not Halt

Chapter 14 Getting Started With Oracle Solaris Zones on Shared Storage

About Shared Storage Resources Using Storage URIs

Local Device URI

Logical Unit URI

iSCSI URI

Managing Storage URIs and Shared Storage Resources

Assigning Shared Storage Resources to Oracle Solaris Zones

storage Property for Zones

rootzpool Resource

zpool Resource

Renaming Zones

Restrictions on Zone Configuration

Automated ZFS Storage Pool Management for Oracle Solaris Zones on Shared Storage Resources

About the unavailable State

Additional zoneadm Subcommand Options

Options for Installing, Cloning, and Attaching Zones

The x force-zpool-import Option

The x force-zpool-create= Option

x force-zpool-create-all Option

Options for Uninstalling Zones

x force-zpool-destroy=zpoolname Option

The x force-zpool-destroy-all Option

Restrictions in the Use of the zoneadm Command

Implementing Oracle Solaris Zones Hosted on Shared Storage Resources

zpool Configuration Considerations for Zones on Shared Storage

Sample Scenarios

Migrating Oracle Solaris Zones Hosted on Shared Storage Resources

Moving Existing Zones in and out of Shared Storage Zone Configurations

How To Move an Existing Zone Into a Shared Storage Configuration

How To Move an Existing Zone out of a Shared Storage Configuration

How To Add Additional ZFS Storage Pools to an Installed Zone

References

Man Pages

Oracle Solaris Administration Guides

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Use the pkg uninstall command to remove packages on a system with zones installed.

# pkg uninstall package_name