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Is assigned a zone ID by the system when the zone is booted
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Shares operation under the Solaris kernel booted from the
global zone
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Contains an installed subset of the complete Solaris Operating
System software packages
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Contains Solaris software packages shared from the global
zone
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Can contain additional installed software packages not shared
from the global zone
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Can contain additional software, directories, files, and other
data created on the non-global zone that are not installed through packages
or shared from the global zone
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Has a complete and consistent product database that contains
information about all software components installed on the zone, whether present
on the non-global zone or shared read-only from the global zone
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Is not aware of the existence of any other zones
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Cannot install, manage, or uninstall other zones, including
itself
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Has configuration information specific to that non-global
zone only, such as the non-global zone host name and file system table
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Can have its own time zone setting