Differences of Solaris zone and Solaris Container

UNIX Solaris
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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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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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Thanks for your reply! :smiley:

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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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/817-1592/zone/index.html

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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. :smiley:

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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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Thanks for your reply jlliagre.. Really appreciated it. :slight_smile:

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You can also have have a look here to emphasize your understanding for zones

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Thanks for that link h@foorsa.biz. I'll look at it immediately.:slight_smile: