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System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System

ProcedureHow to Clone an lx Branded Zone

You must configure the new zone before you can install it. The parameter passed to the zoneadm create subcommand is the name of the zone to clone. This source zone must be halted.

You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.

  1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

    To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

  2. Halt the source zone to be cloned, which is lx-zone in this procedure.


    global# zoneadm -z lx-zone halt

  3. Start configuring the new zone by exporting the configuration of the source zone lx-zone to a file, for example, master.


    global# zonecfg -z lx-zone export -f /export/zones/master
    Note –

    You can also create the new zone configuration using the procedure How to Configure the Zone instead of modifying an existing configuration. If you use this method, skip ahead to Step 6 after you create the zone.

  4. Edit the file master. At a minimum, you must set a different zonepath and IP address for the new zone.

  5. Create the new zone, zone1, by using the commands in the file master.


    global# zonecfg -z zone1 -f /export/zones/master

  6. Install the new zone, zone1, by cloning lx-zone.


    global# zoneadm -z zone1 clone lx-zone

    The system displays:


    Cloning zonepath /export/home/lx-zone...

    If the source zonepath is on a ZFS pool, for example, zeepool, the system displays:


    Cloning snapshot zeepool/zones/lx-zone@SUNWzone1
Instead of copying, a ZFS clone has been created for this zone.

  7. List the zones on the system.


    global# zoneadm list -iv
  ID  NAME          STATUS          PATH                   BRAND      IP
   0  global        running         /                      native     shared
   -  lx-zone       installed       /export/home/lx-zone   lx         shared
   -  zone1         installed       /export/home/zone1     lx         shared
When a Source zonepath on a ZFS File System Is Cloned

When the zoneadm command clones a source zonepath that is on its own ZFS file system, the following actions are performed: