`<div>If the hardware is there will it be used?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:33 AM Nahum Shalman <<a href="mailto:nshalman@omniti.com">nshalman@omniti.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Mini Trader <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:miniflowtrader@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">miniflowtrader@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg">With respect to virtualization, should one be turning on any hardware specific feature for the VM to properly use LX or it doesn't matter?</div></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">LX doesn't require hardware virtualization support. LX zones are like other zones except that they use an emulated Linux system call table instead of a native illumos system call table.<div class="gmail_msg">No actual Linux kernel is used so there's no need for the hardware shenanigans (and their associated performance costs) to trick Linux into thinking it's on hardware.</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">-Nahum</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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