[OmniOS-discuss] Using Docker tarballs for LX zone installations?

[Peter Tribble]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:

> Oh cool!
>
> > On Aug 22, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Or some images here might be useful.
> >
> > http://download.proxmox.com/images/system/
> >
> > I've used the alpine image from there successfully.
>
> I snagged the Debian 8.4 tarball, set my kernel to 3.16.0, and it worked.
> I even "apt update/upgrade"ed it.
>

Sounds good!

What does setting the kernel version actually do? One of the fundamentals
of Linux
is that the kernel and userland are separable. So, within quite broad
limits, you don't
care about matching the kernel version. Docker, of course, relies on this.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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