# [OmniOS-discuss] LX zones: configurations

Mini Trader miniflowtrader at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 16:36:31 UTC 2017

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    If the hardware is there will it be used?

    On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:33 AM Nahum Shalman <nshalman at omniti.com> wrote:

    > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Mini Trader <miniflowtrader at gmail.com>
    > wrote:
    >
    > 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?
    >
    >
    > 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.
    > 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.
    >
    > -Nahum
    >
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