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> On Jan 16, 2017, at 9:30 AM, Nahum Shalman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Peter beat me to the punch, but to put one detail a bit more succinctly:
> If the Sophos Firewall UTM depends on things like iptables functionality from 
> the Linux kernel then it will not work with the LX brand at all. Sadly, I 
> suspect very strongly that it does depend on iptables.
> 
> -Nahum
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Peter Kelm <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Mat,
>> 
>> You’d be (more or less) limited to a KVM zone if all you have is an ISO of 
>> an appliance. In a nutshell an LX zone is a native zone („Solaris“) using a 
>> Linux compatibility layer. It is not a full Linux OS, does not run its own 
>> kernel…
>> 
>> Theoretically you could build an LX zone that mimics the setup of that 
>> Sophos appliance.
>> 1) Determine what distribution (and specific version) the Sophos appliance 
>> is based on. Then start out with an LX dataset of the same distribution (on 
>> SmartOS).
>> 2) „Diff“ the filesystems and replicate all changes (install packages, edit 
>> config files,…) on that LX zone/machine.
>> 
>> I looked at this a while ago for an AV appliance but found that it is too 
>> cumbersome and completely unsupported anyway. Fortunately our AV vendor also 
>> offered an RPM install in addition to the appliance ISO. So I spun up an 
>> Ubuntu LX zone using the Joyent provided dataset and installed those RPMs 
>> per the directions or the AV software supplier…
>> 
>> Let me know if this makes it clearer.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>>> Am 16.01.2017 um 17:57 schrieb Mat Schreiber via smartos-discuss 
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> sorry if my question is answered somewhere in the Joyent Wikis, but I found 
>>> nothing clearly explaining it:
>>> 
>>> I want to install the Sophos  Firewall UTM in an LX Zone (as I assume LX 
>>> Zones to be ways faster than KVM Zones).
>>> So far so good. But I do not know how to create a VM now, as I don't have 
>>> an empty Image in imgadm.
>>> I just have instructions from Oracle wiht LX Zones and installation from CD:
>>> Installing and Booting lx Branded Zones (System Administration Guide: 
>>> Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones)
>>> 
>>> But I am not sure if it would be possible afterwards getting this thing 
>>> again under control of vmadm...
>>> 
>>> Or is it like that, that I should take an image (which one wouldn't matter) 
>>> and when set up I do an unconfigure to that Zone and install it again from 
>>> CD as described in the Oracle Instruction...
>>> What to do best?
>>> 
>>> Sorry and thanks,
>>> Mat
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
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