Temporary Changes to the Live Zone Configuration

You might want to make only temporary changes in the configuration of a running zone. For example, you might want to remove a resource from a zone temporarily while maintenance is performed on a device, or allocate a resource temporarily for a special purpose but not have it be present for the entire run of the zone. Such removals or additions of resources should not be done in the persistent zone configuration because they would cause a failure when the zone reboots and the resource is no longer available.

Parameters changed temporarily in live mode take effect immediately after you issue the zonecfg commit command. These changes are valid until the next zone reboot.