To view the performance stats of the zones, run “prstat -Z” from the global zone.
In the examples below, we will assume that the machine has a zone called “testzone”.
To list the zones configured in the machine, run “zoneadm list -iv”, it shows all the zones and the status of each zone:
root@hamdan # zoneadm list -iv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / native shared
- testzone installed /export/testzone native shared
The status of “testzone” is “installed”, this means that the zone is down.
To boot a zone, run “zoneadm -z <zone_name> boot” :
root@hamdan # zoneadm -z testzone boot
root@hamdan #
root@hamdan # zoneadm list -iv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / native shared
6 testzone running /export/testzone native shared
The status of the zone is “running”, it means the zone has been successfully booted up.
To shut-down a zone, run “zoneadm -z <zone_name> halt” :
root@hamdan # zoneadm -z testzone halt
root@hamdan #
root@hamdan # zoneadm list -iv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / native shared
- testzone installed /export/testzone native shared
To reboot a zone, you can use “zoneadm -z <zone_name> halt” then “zoneadm -z <zone_name> boot” OR you can use “zoneadm -z <zone_name> reboot” (note: both are graceful reboots):
root@hamdan # zoneadm -z testzone reboot
root@hamdan #
root@hamdan # zoneadm list -iv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / native shared
6 testzone running /export/testzone native shared
To login to a zone, run “zlogin -z <zone_name>” :
root@hamdan # zlogin -z testzone
[Connected to zone 'testzone' pts/2]
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
$
$ hostname
testzone
$ exit
root@hamdan #
To backup zone configuration, run “zonecfg -z <zone_name> export > /my_backup ” (note: /my_backup is any user backup file!):
root@hamdan # zonecfg -z testzone export > /my_backup
root@hamdan # more /my_backup
create -b
set zonepath=/export/testzone
set autoboot=true
set ip-type=shared
add net
set address=192.168.1.10/24
set physical=e1000g0
set defrouter=192.168.1.1
end
root@hamdan #
To restore zone configuration, run “zonecfg -z <zone_name> -f /my_backup”.
You make a note that “zoneadm halt” and “zoneadm reboot” are “graceful” shutdowns.
): these commands cause sending a SIGTERM to local zone’s processes and after a timeout the zone’s run-time resources are revoked and processes are killed.
As far as I know, this is not quite true (I may be wrong, please say so if I am
This is not a very graceful shutdown in terms of not calling initscripts or SMF stop methods for service shutdown and cleanup, and doing so in a particular order.
Portable graceful shutdown and reboot actions are “zlogin -S ZONENAME init 0″ and “zlogin -S ZONENAME init 6″ accordingly. (The -S flag stands for “safemode zlogin” which cuts some corners, requires less resources and is more likely to succeed on a busy system; it is not required if not implemented in your version of OpenSolaris descendant).
A currently unportable solution exists in Solaris 11 apparently, “zoneadm -z ZONENAME shutdown (-r)” which does proper graceful shutdown (optionally followed by a reboot).
HTH,
//Jim Klimov
Also it may be important to notice that unlike other commands, “zlogin” does not have the “-z” argument. It is just “zlogin ZONENAME”.
It has a “-C” argument however, to log onto a local zone’s console and receive its “kernel log messages” sent to the zone’s /dev/console.