The patch to Illumos to bring back LX brand

How to build Illumos to bring back LX brand on OpenIndiana 151a.

Running skype on OpenIndiana 151a

Skype is one of the widely used proprietary applications. It runs on Linux and it is possible to run skype in lx brand zone on OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana.

The lx brand for OpenIndiana 151a

The lx branded zones on OpenSolaris enabled to run Linux binaries. But this useful feature was removed from the kernel in June 11, 2010. As it turned out, it is not so difficult to bring the lx brand back. The results of the first attempt are below.

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