Creating and Using Oracle^® Solaris Zones

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

This chapter discusses zone installation on the Oracle Solaris operating system. It also describes the two processes that manage the virtual platform and the application environment, zoneadmd and zsched. Information about halting, rebooting, cloning, and uninstalling zones is also provided.

The following topics are addressed in this chapter:

• 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

• About Cloning Non-Global Zones

• Creating a Golden Zone

To clone a non-global zone, install and boot a non-global zone, or to halt or uninstall a non-global zone, see Installing, Booting, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones.

For information about solaris10 branded zone installation, see Chapter 5, Installing the solaris10 Branded Zone in Creating and Using Oracle Solaris 10 Zones.