illumos gate

As recently pointed on the mailing list, there is a blog with diff-files and explanation of these updates which return support to oi151a (rev f342d051b376); it may likely be compatible with more modern revisions:
http://os-solaris.ru/en/patch-k-illumos-dlya-vosstanovleniya-lx-brand/
http://os-solaris.ru/en/lx-brand-dlya-openindiana-151a/

The availability of kvm (thanks Joyent!) makes this feature pretty much entirely pointless. I see no real value in pursuing it, nor do I think it will occur. Perhaps we should flag this one "Rejected" -- as in there is approximately zero chance that we'll ever integrate this work.

Will the "rejected" status be revised, now that there is some work over the past year being done by SmartOS folks and by David Mackay - and hopefully some of that can get RTI'd sooner or later?

In particular, I gather KVM support is of little help when e.g. the illumos-based OS itself is a VM, as in my use-case of a development laptop being a corporate workhorse which must have Windows as the bare-metal system in order to have certificate-protected Ethernet (oh, and it can also see the USB3 ports and pass them to the OI VirtualBox guest).

This is definitely of interest, people keep asking me about the availability of lx brand on OpenIndiana.
Integration in illumos would be a plus.

Openindiana also have kvm working that alp recently updated for OI /hipster.
Bringing lx brand from SmartOS to OI can also be project like that.
If people keep asking, they might as well make it so if there is a project for it.

http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/io-lx-public/

Oh, I knew that Dan was working on it but not that he had a webrev in place.

danmcd published in https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Maintainers#Cherrypickingfromillumos-joyent how to integrate LX zones from illumos-joyent into OmniOS. Maybe this helps to get the integration into illumos.

As Lx zone was a Microsystems stuff, I wish it can be integrated into illumos gate. May I know if the team will still consider this?

If someone wants to write up a plan (probably as an IPD ) then we'll certainly consider it! I think the primary thing that keeps it out of illumos-gate is that is a lot of changes and somebody will have to collect them, get at least some of them additionally reviewed, test it all, etc. The bhyve hypervisor was recently brought upstream from illumos-joyent (where much of the LX work was done also), so if you're curious about the sort of planning I mean, you could have a read through IPD 15 bhyve integration/upstream