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Old 09-07-2011
Data Differences of Solaris zone and Solaris Container
Hi everyone!

I am in dire need to know what are the differences between a solaris zone and a solaris container.. Explanations over the net are very confusing. Please help. Thanks!
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Old 09-07-2011
A container is a non global zone with, potentially, resource management enabled (eg: CPU capping and the likes).
A zone is either the global zone which is the regular Solaris instance or a non global zone which is a virtualized OS layer.
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Old 09-07-2011
Thanks for your reply! Smilie

May I ask some more questions, I am new to Solaris.
What is global and non-global? How does it affects the whole system or users?
Thanks!
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Old 09-07-2011
System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E...one/index.html
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Old 09-07-2011
Is virtualization in Solaris talks about having a dual OS running in a single computer like in Windows using VMWare?

Anyway, thanks for the link. Smilie
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Old 09-07-2011
Solaris supports virtualization both at the hardware level (ldoms, virtualbox) and at the OS level (containers). Zones are of the second kind.
Operating system-level virtualization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 09-07-2011
Thanks for your reply jlliagre.. Really appreciated it. Smilie
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