[oi-dev] Lx Zone

Franklin Ronald franklin.desenv at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 01:30:30 UTC 2016


Thanks Alex.

I'll clone this repo and test some things. I think that LX brand zones 
is a important feature for servers.


Em 26/11/16 04:22, Alexander Pyhalov escreveu:
> Hi.
>
> Franklin писал 26.11.2016 00:04:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> Is possible to make a lx branded zone with CentOS 6? Anyone already 
>> do it?
>
> Short answer: no.
>
> Long answer...
>
> There is old work on resurrecting lx brand, which could still work on 
> OI: http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/DavidJX8P/lx-zones-restoration/ .
> I think that it's your best bet if you want to have something working 
> ASAP. It's limited and doesn't support fresh linux kernels,
> but can be enough to run CentOS 6.
>
> Joyent has done a great work on reviving and updating LX brand. But so 
> far they didn't try to merge lx brand in illumos-gate.
> Dan McDonald ported their work to OmniOS, I expect you can find 
> relevant bits here: https://github.com/danmcd/io-lx-public.
> You can try contact him about cooperating on LX brand, if you are 
> really interesting. Igor Kozhukhov also has lx working on DilOS.
> Given the amount of work, he didn't try to upstream this work to 
> illumos-gate.
> If you want modern LX on OI your best chance is to contact them about 
> possibility to merge their LX work to illumos-gate (at least to your 
> own fork).
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