Setting up a Solaris Zones Host System

Solaris versions 10 and above on both X86 and Sparc hardware come with support for Zones installed as standard. Therefore, the steps to configure a system as a Zones host for use by VM2 are relatively simple :

1. Download and install the latest version of Webmin from http://www.webmin.com/download.html . The commands to do this are :

   cd /tmp
   wget http://www.webmin.com/download/webmin-current.pkg.gz
   gunzip webmin-current.pkg.gz
   pkgadd -d webmin-current.pkg WSwebmin
   

2. Login to Webmin at http://yourserver:10000/ as root with your system's root password, to make sure that it is running.
3. Create the directory that VM2 will use for Zones filesystems, with the command

   mkdir /zones