About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)

This chapter discusses zone installation on your Solaris system. It also describes the two processes that manage the virtual platform and the application environment, zoneadmd and zsched. Information about halting, rebooting, cloning, and uninstalling zones is also provided.

The following topics are addressed in this chapter:

• Zone Installation and Administration Concepts

• Zone Construction

• The zoneadmd Daemon

• The zsched Zone Scheduler

• Zone Application Environment

• About Halting, Rebooting, and Uninstalling Zones

• About Cloning Non-Global Zones

To clone a non-global zone, install and boot a non-global zone, or to halt or uninstall a non-global zone, see Chapter 20, Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks).

For information about lx branded zone installation, see Chapter 32, About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview) and Chapter 33, Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks).