This system administration feature is new in the Solaris Express 4/06 release.
This feature enables migration of non-global zones from one machine to another machine. The zonecfg and zoneadm commands have been modified to enable migration of non-global zones from one system to another. The migration procedure detaches a halted zone from its current location and attaches the zone to a new system.
The global zone on the target system must be running the following:
The same release of the OS as the original host
The same versions of OS packages and patches as the original host
The zone detach process creates the information necessary to attach the zone on a different system. The zone attach process verifies that the new machine has the correct configuration to host the zone.
Because there are a number of ways to make the zonepath available on the new host, the actual movement of the zonepath from one system to another is a manual process that is performed by the global administrator.
When attached to the new system, the zone is in the installed state.
For more information on configuring privileges for zones and zone privilege restrictions, see