Apologies to the group for my errant message. 

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Casey Bisson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my Motorola StarTac
> 
>> 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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