Thursday, 1 December 2011

Solaris - Clone an existing zone

To create a clone of my-zone to zone1 ( a new zone)

Halt source zone (my-zone)

# zoneadm -z my-zone halt
# zonecfg -z my-zone export -f /export/zones/master

This will make a file master and put all my-zone configuration in it. Modify this file and create a new zone:

# zonecfg -z zone1 -f /export/zones/master

Install a new zone, zone1 clone my-zone

# zoneadm -z zone1 clone my-zone