Creating and Using Oracle^® Solaris Zones

How to Shut Down a Zone

The shutdown procedure cleanly shuts down the zone.

1. Become a zone administrator.

   For more information, see Assigning Limited Rights to Zone Administrators.

2. List the zones running on the system.

   global$ zoneadm list -v

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

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

3. Use the zoneadm command with the –z option, the name of the zone, for example, my-zone, and the shutdown subcommand shut down the given zone.

   global$ zoneadm -z my-zone shutdown

4. Also specify the –r option to reboot the zone.

   global$ zoneadm -z my-zone shutdown -r boot_options

   See Example 3, Specifying Boot Arguments for Zones.

5. List the zones running on the system to confirm that the zone has been shut down.

   global$ zoneadm list -v