How to use zlogin to Shutdown and Start a zone

Updated 14 Nov 2013 Read time 1 min 1 sec (1545 views). Solaris

Become an administrator.

(optionally) List the zones running on the global zone.

# zoneadm list -v

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

ID  NAME    STATUS      PATH          BRAND    IP
 0  global  running     /             solaris  shared
 1  zone1   running     /zones/zone1  native  excl
 2  zone2   running     /zones/zone2  native  shared
 -  zone3   configured  /zones/zone3  native  shared
 -  zone4   installed   /zones/zone4  native  shared

Use the zoneadm command with the -z option, the name of the zone, for example zone1, and the appropriate subcommand to action on the given zone.
```
zoneadm -z <zone> <subcommand>
```
For example:
```
# zoneadm -z zone1 reboot
```
Sub-commands:
```
    verify     install     ready      boot
    reboot     uninstall   halt       list
```

Examples

In each of the examples below we are using zone1 as our configured zone.

To login to a zone from the global zone:
```
global# zlogin zone1
```

To cleanly shutdown a zone:

global# zlogin zone1 shutdown -y -g0 -i 0

To reboot a zone:
```
global# zoneadm -z zone1 reboot
```
To halt a zone:
```
global# zoneadm -z zone1 halt
```
To boot a zone:
```
global# zoneadm -z zone1 boot
```
To boot a zone in single-user mode:
```
global# zoneadm -z zone1 boot -s
```
To check if a zone is configured to autoboot:
```
global# zoneadm -z zone1 info
```