brands(5) - osol9

1brands(5)             Standards, Environments, and Macros            brands(5)
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6       brands - alternate operating environments for non-global zones
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  branded  zone  (BrandZ) framework extends the Solaris Zones infra‐
10       structure described in zones(5) to  include  the  creation  of  brands,
11       which  provide non-global zones that contain non-native operating envi‐
12       ronments.
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15       The term "brand" can refer to a wide range of  operating  environments.
16       All  brand  management  is performed as extensions to the current zones
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20       Every zone is configured with an associated brand. The  brand  type  is
21       used  to  determine which scripts are executed when a zone is installed
22       and booted. In addition, a zone's brand is used  to  properly  identify
23       the  correct  application type at application launch time.  The default
24       brand is determined by the installed distribution in the global zone.
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27       A branded zone will support exactly one  brand  of  non-native  binary,
28       which  means  that  a branded zone provides a single operating environ‐
29       ment. Once a zone has been assigned  a  brand,  that  brand  cannot  be
30       changed or removed.
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33       BrandZ extends the zones tools in the following ways:
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35           o      A brand is an attribute of a zone, set at zone create time.
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37           o      The  zonecfg  tool (see zonecfg(1M)) is used to set a zone's
38                  brand type and configure the zone.
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40           o      The zoneadm tool (see  zoneadm(1M))  is  used  to  report  a
41                  zone's brand type and administer the zone.
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43   Device Support
44       The  devices supported by each zone are documented in the man pages and
45       other documentation for that brand. The  zones  infrastructure  detects
46       any  attempt  to  add an unsupported device and issues a warning to the
47       administrator. If the  administrator  chooses  to  add  an  unsupported
48       device  despite  that  warning,  that device might or might not work as
49       expected. The configuration will be untested and unsupported.
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ATTRIBUTES

52       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
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57       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
58       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
59       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
60       │Availability                 │SUNWzoneu                    │
61       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
62       │Interface Stability          │Evolving                     │
63       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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