*Missing utilities in Solaris11 Non global zone.*

Question

Hi,
I created Non Global zone in Solaris 11, I found many utilities are missing in Non Global zone machine. For example in non global zone /usr/xpg4/bin contains only 2 utilities where as in global zone I have 68utilities. I copied few utilities from my global zone machine which ever is required for me(ex: id,grep,egrep....). I need to enable rlogin, telnet, ftp in my Solaris 11 non global zone machine. I installed pkg:/service/network/legacy-remote-utilities. But no luck. In some thread i found workaround to enable rlogin.
rlogin on zones in solaris 11 i found a workaround.
Need to copy 2 binaries and 2 .xml manifest from GZ to NGZ
cp /usr/sbin/in.rlogind
cp /lib/svc/manifest/network/login.xml
cp /usr/sbin/in.rshd
cp /lib/svc/manifest/network/shell.xml
Question1: how about other services?
Question2: As a concept It has to have all the utilities which is available in Global zone. Why these many utilities are missing? Am I doing any thing wrong or is it zone limitation? we are facing issue in only Solaris 11. where as in Solaris10 every thing works fine.

Answer 1

What you observed is normal. The basic Solaris 11 zone install gives you a somewhat minimal install. If you want additional packages, you can install them. If you want the zone install to have what you would install from a CD I suppose you could do a the following:
pkg install slim_install
pkg uninstall slim_install
My understanding is that the slim_install package contains dependencies which loads all of the desktop software but doesn't contain any content itself - which is why you can (and should) remove it afterwards.
That said, normally one uses a zone for a particular purpose. A better approach might be to install only the software in the zone which is needed for that purpose. That would save space, limit security exposure and reduce maintenance overhead. If your purpose is to have a full user environment, that may be to include all the slim_install packages and maybe others as well.
I would recommend that you not install services by copying files. If you need a service find out what package contains that service and install the package in the zone. That way you won't break maintenance via pkg update.
So - your questions:
1. A Solaris 11 zone install is minimal, presumably to make it easy to set up simple single function zones. Additional packages can be added as needed using "pkg install" as needed to provide any necessary services.
2. Solaris 10 zones work differently and import most packages from the global zone. With Solaris 10 sparse zones, you actually use the same files from the global zone. Solaris 11 zones are different in that they are actually a separate install. The basic install is minimal, presumably to allow for small and simple single function zones. You are not doing anything wrong with respect to the basic install, this is just how things work.