ZCONS(4D) Devices ZCONS(4D)

zconsZone console device driver

The zcons character driver exports the console for system zones. The driver is fundamentally similar to a pseudo-terminal device, and is thus comprised of two sides:

Applications must not depend on the location of /dev or /devices entries exposed by zcons in the global zone. Inside a non-global zone, the zcons subsidiary device is fronted by /dev/console and other console-related symbolic links, which are used by applications that expect to write to the system console.

The zcons driver is not a interface, and may change at any time.

/dev/zcons/ZONENAME/globalconsole
Global zone console manager device for zone ZONENAME.
/dev/zcons/ZONENAME/zoneconsole
Global zone console subsidiary device for zone ZONENAME.
/dev/zconsole
Non-global zone console (subsidiary device).

attributes(7), zones(7), zoneadm(8), zonecfg(8)

February 5, 2022 OmniOS