1. Creating and Using Oracle Solaris Zones
  2. Before You Begin Working With Oracle Solaris Zones
  3. Zone Installation and Configuration Concepts
  4. Using Manifests and Configuration Profiles
  5. Creating a Manifest for Zone Installation

Creating a Manifest for Zone Installation

During a zone installation, a default zone manifest is automatically used that installs the solaris-small-server package. If you want to install additional packages, then you would need to create a customized zone manifest to instruct the install program accordingly. For more information, see Chapter 7, Installing and Configuring Zones in Automatically Installing Oracle Solaris 11.4 Systems.

Note:

The configurable parameters in a zone manifest are restricted compared to the manifest for an Oracle Solaris system installation.

To create a manifest, do the following:

  1. On the host system, create a copy of the /usr/share/auto_install/manifest/zone_default.xml file.

  2. Edit the copy by specifying packages to install in addition to the solaris-small-server package.

    For guidance, refer to Non-Global Zone AI Manifest in Automatically Installing Oracle Solaris 11.4 Systems and Working with Non-Global Zones in Updating Systems and Adding Software in Oracle Solaris 11.4.