Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 13th Dec 2005 23:43 UTC, submitted by Nils Nieuwejaar
The Branded Zones community just
opened up on opensolaris.org. This is the underlying technology that enables you to create Linux zones on a Solaris system.
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2005-07-06
Basically, leveraging their normal Zones implementation, you can now load pretty much any user land you want (which you could before anyway), but also they exposed hooks in the kernel that allow it to EMULATE something like, oh, say, Linux.
You're still running on the Solaris kernel, but BrandZ gives you a patching layer to intersperse things between the systems main Solaris kernel, and the userland in the zone.
So, it's a combination of Zones, a packaging system (that bundles up these Zone configs), and the patching mechanism.