How to Mark an Installed Non-Global Zone Incomplete

If administrative changes on the system have rendered a zone unusable or inconsistent, it is possible to change the state of an installed zone to incomplete.

You must be the global administrator or a user with appropriate authorizations in the global zone to perform this procedure.

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

2. Mark the zone testzone incomplete.

   global# zoneadm -z testzone mark incomplete

3. Use the list subcommand with the –i and –v options to verify the status.

   global# zoneadm list -iv

   You will see a display that is similar to the following:

   ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP
    0  global   running      /                              solaris    shared
    -  my-zone  installed    /zones/my-zone                 solaris    excl  
    -  testzone incomplete   /zones/testzone                solaris    excl  

Marking a Zone Incomplete

The –R root option can be used with the mark and list subcommands of zoneadm to specify an alternate boot environment. See zoneadm(1M) for more information.