About Zone Brands

Zones in Oracle Solaris are branded. A zone is branded when you create it, as specified in the zone's template. After a zone is installed, you can no longer change its brand. Oracle Solaris 11.4 supports the following brands:

• solaris – Creates a zone that will contain the same software as the global zone. Unless you specify differently, all non-global zones automatically receive the solaris brand, which is based on the SYSsolaris template.

  Note:

  This guide focuses on the solaris brand.

• solaris-kz – Creates a kernel zone. The brand is based on the SYSsolaris-kz or SYSsolaris-kz-minimal template. See Creating and Using Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones.

• solaris10 – Enables Solaris 10 binary applications to run unmodified on a host with the Oracle Solaris 11.4 kernel. The brand is based on the SYSsolaris10 template. See Creating and Using Oracle Solaris 10 Zones.

• labeled – Implements Trusted Extensions. See Zone Creation in Trusted Extensions in Trusted Extensions Configuration and Administration and Installing and Enabling Trusted Extensions in Trusted Extensions Configuration and Administration.

For more details about brands, see the brands(7) man page.

Note:

The brand of zone you are creating might have additional requirements. For example, kernel zones have their own specific hardware and software needs, as described in Software and Hardware Requirements for Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones in Creating and Using Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones.