Standards, Environments, and Macros                     brands(5)



NAME
     brands - alternate  operating  environments  for  non-global
     zones

DESCRIPTION
     The branded zone  (BrandZ)  framework  extends  the  Solaris
     Zones  infrastructure  described  in zones(5) to include the
     creation of brands, which provide non-global zones that con-
     tain non-native operating environments.


     The term "brand" can refer to  a  wide  range  of  operating
     environments.  All  brand  management is performed as exten-
     sions to the current zones structure.


     Every zone is configured with an associated brand. The brand
     type  is used to determine which scripts are executed when a
     zone is installed and booted. In addition, a zone's brand is
     used  to  properly  identify the correct application type at
     application launch time. The default is the native brand.


     A branded zone will support exactly one brand of  non-native
     binary,  which  means  that a branded zone provides a single
     operating environment. Once  a  zone  has  been  assigned  a
     brand, that brand cannot be changed or removed.


     BrandZ extends the zones tools in the following ways:

         o    A brand is an attribute of  a  zone,  set  at  zone
              create time.

         o    The zonecfg tool (see zonecfg(1M)) is used to set a
              zone's brand type and configure the zone.

         o    The zoneadm  tool  (see  zoneadm(1M))  is  used  to
              report a zone's brand type and administer the zone.

  Device Support
     The devices supported by each zone are documented in the man
     pages  and  other  documentation  for  that brand. The zones
     infrastructure detects any attempt  to  add  an  unsupported
     device  and  issues  a  warning to the administrator. If the
     administrator chooses to add an unsupported  device  despite
     that  warning,  that  device  might  or  might  not  work as
     expected. The configuration  will  be  untested  and  unsup-
     ported.

ATRIBUTES




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Standards, Environments, and Macros                     brands(5)



     See attributes(5) for a description of the following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWzoneu                   
    
     Interface Stability          Evolving                    
    


SEE ALSO
     mdb(1), zlogin(1), zonename(1), dtrace(1M),  in.rlogind(1M),
     sshd(1M),  zoneadm(1M),  zonecfg(1M),  kill(2), priocntl(2),
     getzoneid(3C), ucredget(3C), getzoneid(3C), proc(4), attri-
     butes(5),   lx(5),   native(5),   privileges(5),   zones(5),
     lxsystrace(7D), crgetzoneid(9F)



































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