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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones     Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers
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Preface

Part I Resource Management

1.  Introduction to Solaris 10 Resource Management

2.  Projects and Tasks (Overview)

3.  Administering Projects and Tasks

4.  Extended Accounting (Overview)

5.  Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)

6.  Resource Controls (Overview)

7.  Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)

8.  Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)

9.  Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)

10.  Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)

11.  Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)

12.  Resource Pools (Overview)

13.  Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)

14.  Resource Management Configuration Example

15.  Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console

Part II Zones

16.  Introduction to Solaris Zones

17.  Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)

18.  Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

19.  About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)

20.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

21.  Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)

22.  Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

23.  Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

24.  Oracle Solaris 10 9/10: Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris System Into a Zone (Tasks)

25.  About Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)

What's New in Packaging and Patching When Zones Are Installed

Packaging and Patch Tools Overview

About Packages and Zones

Patches Generated for Packages

Interactive Packages

Keeping Zones in Sync

Package Operations Possible in the Global Zone

Package Operations Possible in a Non-Global Zone

How Zone State Affects Patch and Package Operations

About Adding Packages in Zones

Using pkgadd in the Global Zone

Adding a Package to the Global Zone and to All Non-Global Zones

Adding a Package to the Global Zone Only

Adding a Package Installed in the Global Zone to all Non-Global Zones

Using pkgadd in a Non-Global Zone

About Removing Packages in Zones

Using pkgrm in the Global Zone

Removing a Package From the Global Zone and From all Non-Global Zones

Using pkgrm in a Non-Global Zone

Package Parameter Information

Setting Package Parameters for Zones

SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES Package Parameter

SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW Package Parameter

SUNW_PKG_THISZONE Package Parameter

Package Information Query

About Adding Patches in Zones

Oracle Solaris 10 8/07: Deferred Activation Patching

Oracle Solaris 10 10/09: Zones Parallel Patching to Reduce Patching Time

Applying Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed

Using patchadd in the Global Zone

Using patchadd in a Non-Global Zone

Interaction of patchadd -G and the pkginfo Variable on a System With Zones

Removing Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed

Using patchrm in the Global Zone

Using patchrm in a Non-Global Zone

Product Database

26.  Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)

27.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)

28.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Tasks)

29.  Upgrading an Oracle Solaris 10 System That Has Installed Non-Global Zones

30.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems

Part III lx Branded Zones

31.  About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone

32.  Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)

33.  Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)

34.  About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)

35.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

36.  Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

37.  Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

38.  Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Applying Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed

All patches applied at the global zone level are applied across all zones. When a non-global zone is installed, it is at the same patch level as the global zone. When the global zone is patched, all non-global zones are similarly patched. This action maintains the same patch level across all zones.

The patchadd system utility described in the patchadd(1M) man page is used to add patches on a system with zones installed.

Using patchadd in the Global Zone

To add a patch to the global zone and to all non-global zones, run patchadd as the global administrator in the global zone.

When patchadd is used in the global zone, the following conditions apply:

When you add a patch to the global zone and to all non-global zones, you do not have to consider whether the patch affects areas that are shared from the global zone.

The following steps are performed by the patchadd utility:

Using patchadd in a Non-Global Zone

When used in a non-global zone by the zone administrator, patchadd can only be used to add patches to that zone. A patch can be added to a non-global zone in the following cases:

The following steps are performed by the patchadd utility:

Interaction of patchadd -G and the pkginfo Variable on a System With Zones

The following list specifies the interaction between the -G option and the SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES variable when adding a patch in global and non-global zones.

Global zone, -G specified

If any packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, this use results in an error and no action.

If no packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to package(s) in global zone only.

Global zone, -G not specified

If any packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to those package(s) in all zones.

If any packages do not have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to those package(s) in all appropriate zones. Global zone only packages are installed only in the global zone.

Non-global zone, -G specified or not specified

If any packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, this use results in an error and no action.

If no packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to packages in non-global zone only.