is there a way to add descriptions to zones and have zadm show it in output of zadm list?

not technically...but you could probably add a generic attr with zonecfg

aru_: I use toml for zadm but:

[[attr]]

name="some-comment"

type="string"

value="this is an example of a generic attr"

yeah, I was thinking about something like that. How would I make zadm to show that in the list without patching it?

I think a patch to do that would be a good idea - if there is a `description` attribute set, include it somehow in `zadm list`

zadm show zonename attr name=some-comment

that seems to work

andyf: I'm a bit rusty with perl, but I could take a look at that

Me too, especially the modern perl that zadm is written in. If you prefer, you could open an issue/feature request against the zadm repository.

I'll see what I can do