[OmniOS-discuss] LX zones: configurations

[Mini Trader]

If the hardware is there will it be used?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:33 AM Nahum Shalman <nshalman at omniti.com> wrote:

> 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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