Sorry that I don't have an answer to your question, but I have some thoughts that might help :)
I see "zones" hosting as two potentially different services... 1. Virtual Dedicated Solaris Server - You are provided a "virtual dedicated server" that runs (Open)Solaris. You know its a zone because you type "zonename" and its not "global" .. but other than that, they don't really need to disclose what kind of virtualization they choose to use. It probably wouldn't be marketed as "zones hosting" or anything to do with zones. As an admin, you SSH in and do your thing, just like any other virtual-dedicated-server product. 2. ZONE hosting - You somehow provide a hosting provider with a filesystem (zfs shapshot?) of your pre-made zone to run in the "cloud" ... Maybe something like network.com or amazon EC (if they were on Solaris). The provider would probably have to provide you a virtualbox copy of their hosting environment with the exact OS/patches, so you could build your zone and it would "zoneadm -z BLAH attach" without much fuss when you sent it to them. I don't know whether you are thinking of #1 or #2 or both, but in your questioning of service providers, I think if I were you, I would simplify by asking them if they provide Solaris virtual dedicated servers, rather than "zones" hosting, as your typical CSR won't know what the heck zones are or what they have to do with Solaris or otherwise. ~tommy -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
