http://www.theregister.com/content/4/30179.html

QUOTE ("The Register")

Solaris 10 to get Zoned It's still a ways off, but when Solaris 10 arrives, Sun Microsystems will ship the OS with a new type of partitioning technology called Solaris Zones. In many ways, the Solaris Zones - known internally by the Kevlar code-name - will be a hardened version of the Solaris Containers currently offered to users for keeping applications isolated from each other. With the Zones, users can split up applications into numerous different compartments all running on one OS image. The amount of processor power, I/O bandwidth and memory for each Zone can be altered, and each one can also be rebooted, said John Fowler, CTO of software at Sun.

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It's basically, a much better version of the chroots currently used today... and after reading this article, it seems like a *very* good idea to me!! :D

linus get you ass in gear I want that :)

that's what i think too!! :D

solaris has had it for ages! at least since Solaris 8. In Solaris 8 they're called "chroots", in solaris 9 they're called "containers", and in solaris 10 it appears they're called "zones"!!

The main difference between zones and containers/chroots is that you can still have the two interacting closely. Each chroot has it's own set of necessary binaries, but some of the (virtual) devices are shared, and also we use scripts in "/etc/rc3.d" on the main system to start things up inside each chroot. i'm not sure how this would work with the new zones.