[OpenIndiana-discuss] OS supported in brand zones

[Khushil Dep]

You need Intel chips as you need EPT for KVM 

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> On 8 Nov 2014, at 12:51, Joris FAGBEMIRO <fagbjoris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> Thanks all for your answers.
> I have take a look to SmartOS and it seems a good approach to mix the use
> of zones and full virtualization.
> However it seems that KVM is not support on AMD Cpu, now i have an AMD
> Opteron (with AMD-V technology).
> Didi you know if it is possible currently to use KVM technology on AMD?
> Thanks
> Le 8 nov. 2014 02:15, "Jim Klimov" <jimklimov at cos.ru> a écrit :
> 
>> 7 ноября 2014 г. 16:56:43 CET, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com>
>> пишет:
>>> Thanks Aurélien, I thought there was something about it around, but I
>>> couldn't place where ...
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent
>>> 
>>> so it looks like joyent are keeping it together.
>>> 
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> On 7 November 2014 14:48, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Was not lx brand resurrected a while ago and even work with 2.6 ?
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Adams
>>> <t12nslookup at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> quick answer, no.
>>>>> 
>>>>> long answer:
>>>>> 
>>>>> BrandZ allowed Linux kernels to be run in a "zone" on Solaris, but
>>> this
>>>>> code has been removed from the kernel (it might be possible to put
>>> it
>>>> back
>>>>> from
>>> http://os-solaris.ru/en/patch-k-illumos-dlya-vosstanovleniya-lx-brand/
>>>>> but since this link is a very long time old it probably won't work
>>> ...
>>>> you
>>>>> might be able to find someone who has kept it up to date if you ask
>>> the
>>>>> question on the forums.
>>>>> 
>>>>> However Openindiana does have KVM built into it, and I use this to
>>> run my
>>>>> "Linux Zones", and because it's a complete virtual machine it could
>>> be
>>>> used
>>>>> to run Debian/BSD/Windows quite happily.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you want to run them as true KVM zones you'd probably need to
>>> look in
>>>>> the direction of SmartOS though as you don't have to get too dirty
>>>> running
>>>>> on their system.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jon
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 7 November 2014 09:03, Joris FAGBEMIRO <fagbjoris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>> Please tell me if it is possible to install  FreeBSD or Debian in
>>> a
>>>> brand
>>>>>> zone?
>>>>>> I have an architecture with pfsense and kali-linux,and i would
>>> know if
>>>> i
>>>>>> can install them in a zone in openindiana.
>>>>>> Thanks
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>> Great, thanks. My "informedness" stopped at David Mackay's work earlier
>> this year, which ran for me on Hipster (with custom illumis core) but
>> failed to run most of the relatively current distros in any acceptable
>> manner.
>> Can the joyent lx branch be easily excised for tests on other distros
>> and/or are there plans to upstream this back soon? ;)
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