[indiana-discuss] Zones: default vs blank

[David Abrahams]

on Fri Jun 12 2009, Shawn Walker <swalker-xZgeD5Kw2fzokhkdeNNY6A-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> the zoneadm create command takes an optional "-b" parameter that
>> specifies whether I want the "Sun default settings" or a "blank
>> configuration," but it doesn't give any details of what those are, or
>> even tell me how to find out.  Luckily, I googled up someone's answer
>> that it comes from "/etc/zones/*.xml."  However, from looking at those
>> files, it appears that the "default" zone and a "blank" zone are the
>> same.  
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1. Am I missing something?
>>
>> 2. Shouldn't the docs be clearer about what's going to happen when the
>>    zone is created?
>
> Hi, at this time, native or 'blank' zones are not supported for the OpenSolaris
> 2009.06 release, read more here:
>
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8861

Thanks, Shawn.  My 2c went into that bug ticket :-)

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