As far as I've been able to find out so far, Solaris 8 and 9 branded
zones are available and supported on Solaris 10 only right now, and only
for SPARC. Are there any plans to provide them for x86 and Nevada, too?
There are two reasons I'm asking: I'd like to test current versions of
GCC on older
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Rainer Orth
wrote:
> As far as I've been able to find out so far, Solaris 8 and 9 branded
> zones are available and supported on Solaris 10 only right now, and only
> for SPARC. Are there any plans to provide them for x86 and Nevada, too?
There wasn't much Solari
Speaking from experience, there are some big deployments of Solaris 9 on x86
out there in the e-commerce and telco industries. But many have moved onto
Solaris 10 thankfully. So I can understand the thinking here. But I'm sure
there may be some good business cases where S8/9 branded zones on x86
