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Re:Ask HN: What hypervisor are you using? by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:13PM (#10851754)
...Wait. Did you just say they're developing LXC? That is hilarious.

They're SmartOS! They're on the Solaris codebase! They've had containers since 2005! Literally before it existed, it had containers!

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Re:Ask HN: What hypervisor are you using? by melloc on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:41PM (#10902903)
linc01n's comment was a little unclear. SmartOS isn't doing anything with the LXC protect. What SmartOS has done is revived the branded zones code from Sun for emulating Linux system calls. This means that you can run Docker containers on SmartOS as zones, as well as use dtrace, mdb and ptools on your Linux binaries. You can read up some more here:

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones

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Re:Ask HN: What hypervisor are you using? by qwertyuiop924 on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:35AM (#10910323)
I saw Bryan Cantrill's talk on that! It did sound neat.
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