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With regards to Solaris Zones, what is the global Zone, and are there any local Zones?

April 26, 2017global local regards Solaris zone zones

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With regards to Solaris Zones, what is the global Zone, and are there any local Zones?

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Chien-Hua Yen: There are two types of Zones: global Zones and non-global Zones. The official name for a “local” Zone is a “non-global” Zone. A global Zone contains a fully functional installation of the Solaris Operating System that is bootable by the system hardware. So, an installation of the Solaris Operating System becomes the global Zone when it is booted by the system hardware. Only one global Zone runs on a system. Then, 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.