Solaris 10 on Intel hardware - use of containers - possibly silly question

Greetings,
We are reviewing an implementation of an application using Solaris 10 Containers. All of our reviews of the available documentation do not explicitly state that Solaris 10 (which integrates containers) on Intel includes and can use Containers.
This would not normally be an issue, with something NOT being mentioned, however, the planning resources DO specifically mention that Solaris 10 with Containers works on Sparc hardware.
Could someone please confirm for me, without having us do a trial install, that Sun Containers are available and working on the latest release of Solaris 10 for X86.
Cheers,
Paul

From what I can tell, containers (zones) are supported just fine on the x86/64 systems with the exception of Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 branded zones. Oh, and Linux-branded zones only work on x86/64 systems. Solaris 10 though as a non-global zone works on any S10 host OS.

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