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Old 06-16-2015
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Originally Posted by hicksd8
If you are talking SPARC architecture then AFAIK a Solaris 9 zone (known as a legacy zone) is not supported on a Solaris 11 host (global zone).
You are correct, there is no support for a Solaris 9 zone under Solaris 11, this is true whatever the CPU architecture (SPARC or x86).
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However, if you used Solaris 10 as your host OS then setting up a Solaris 9 legacy zone on that is easy.
Correct, note that you can't run a Solaris 9 legacy zone under a Solaris 10 non global zone either.
# 9  
Old 06-16-2015
Oracle Purchase a real system
So MuziKizuM,
I looked into getting the real deal and just using a Sparc box. They are actually very affordable on ebay (I'm not saying cheap, just affordable, like the cost of a couple course textbooks.)

I can't post URLs but ebay searches for T2 Sparc turn up plenty of options.

There are 1 rack unit T2 Sparc processor based boxes, the 5120s, and they have good resources to run guests in zones. They do run Solaris 11 (see below about Hardware Compatibility List) but you might want to stick with 10 for the compatibility with running 9 in a zones etc etc.

Whichever system(s) you end up considering look at the Oracle HCL to check what exactly is supported.
# 10  
Old 06-16-2015
That is indeed a good option.
With a UltraSPARC T based system, you can create both a Solaris 10 ldom with a Solaris 9 branded zone under its global zone, and a Solaris 11.2 ldom. All three OSes running in parallel.
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