How to Halt a Zone

How to Halt a Zone

1.   List the zones running on the system

      global# zoneadm list -v

2. You will see a display that is similar to the following:

ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP  0  global   running      /                              native     shared  1  my-zone  running      /export/home/my-zone           native     shared

3. Use the zoneadm command with the -z option, the name of the zone, for example, my-zone, and the halt subcommand to halt the given zone.

global# zoneadm -z my-zone halt

4. List the zones on the system again, to verify that my-zone has been

global# zoneadm list -iv

You will see a display that is similar to the following:

ID  NAME     STATUS       PATH                           BRAND      IP  0  global   running      /                              native     shared  -  my-zone  installed    /export/home/my-zone           native     shared

5. Boot the zone if you want to restart it.

global# zoneadm -z my-zone boot