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by bahamat 4013 days ago
It's not a different architecture. SmartOS is x86 based, as are the Linux binaries.

What lx-brand zones do is present an alternate system call table to the binaries executed inside the zone. Those "lx" calls are compatible with the Linux system call table and get mapped and/or translated to illumos kernel system calls. Binaries don't know the difference.
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mrbill 4013 days ago
So Triton is basically (simplifying) Solaris / SmartOS zones with the LX stuff installed?
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bahamat 4013 days ago
It's that, plus cloud orchestration (i.e., SmartDataCenter) which includes sdc-docker, providing the Docker API and image management.
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