Updating a OpenSolaris zone

This is just a quick guide for people who need to update an OpenSolaris zone. First off, you need to shutdown the zone. This can either by done by using init 5 or shutdown inside the zone, or by running any of the two commands with zlogin from the global zone. A last not recommended possibility is to run zoneadm -z <zonename> halt from the global zone.

After the zone is stopped, you will have to set the zone state to 'ready', in order for the file systems to be mounted:

zoneadm -z <zonename> ready

Then you can start the update procedure:

pkg -R <path to zone>/root image-update

And lastly, when the zone is upgraded you can boot up the zone again:

zoneadm -z <zonename> boot

Monday the 5th of October, 2009

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