tmetsch / pyzone

Manage Solaris Zones from Python

Manage Solaris Zones in Python

This project holds a python module with a ctypes wrapper around some Solaris specific calls.

Module can be retrieved from pypi as well:

easy_install/pip install pyzone

Some code snippets

List zones

zones = zone.list_zones()
for identifier in zones.keys():
    print zones[identifier]
    print zone.get_state(identifier)

Boot a zone

zone.boot_zone(item)
print zone.get_state(item)

Available functions

• list_zones
• get_state
• boot_zone
• halt_zone
• shutdown_zone
• restart_zone
• ready_zone
• call_zone_adm

Note

Please note that some operations can take a while to complete.

(c) 2011 tmetsch