Q. In Solaris 10, what does global Zone mean? Are there any "local" Zones?

Posted by : Dr. Root | 05 January, 2006 | Published in

Two types of Zone exist: global Zone and non-global Zone.

A global Zone contains a fully functional installation of the Solaris OS that is bootable by the system hardware. An installation of the Solaris OS becomes the global Zone when it is booted by the system hardware. Only one global Zone runs on a system.

The global Zone administrator creates non-global Zones with Zonecfg(1M) and Zoneadm(1M). The global Zone controls the installation, maintenance, operation, and destruction of all non-global Zones. The official name for "local" Zone is non-global Zone.

Dr Root

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