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Access your global zone X11 server from a local zone, without TCP/IP!

I’ve stumbled over some ARC case enabling labelled zones in OpenSolaris (from Trusted Extensions) to access the X11 server in the global zone “natively” using Unix domain sockets instead of TCP/IP or other jokes. It seems that mounting the X11 socket with the loopback filesystem driver into your zone does the job quite well and [...]

Fedora 9 on BrandZ

If you’re in need of Linux emulation for whatever reason under Solaris, you’ve an existing mechanism at hand called BrandZ. The seemingly supported distros however are CentOS 3/4 and 5. Kind of antique. Stuff like Ubuntu or various other distros don’t seem to work. However if you really need an updated userland, try Fedora 9.
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