[OmniOS-discuss] LX zones: configurations

[Nahum Shalman]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Mini Trader <miniflowtrader at gmail.com>
wrote:

> With respect to virtualization, should one be turning on any hardware
> specific feature for the VM to properly use LX or it doesn't matter?
>

LX doesn't require hardware virtualization support. LX zones are like other
zones except that they use an emulated Linux system call table instead of a
native illumos system call table.
No actual Linux kernel is used so there's no need for the hardware
shenanigans (and their associated performance costs) to trick Linux into
thinking it's on hardware.

-Nahum
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