Solaris 8 Containers and x86 compatability

My client relies on a program for the meat and potatoes of our processing. This program currently only works on Solaris 8. We are using Sun Blade 2500 workstations. However we are moving offices and to build up the new lab, the client wants to get away from the Sun workstations and move towards Linux or Windows machines. He is however willing to migrate to Solaris 10 provided the the program that we depend on is still usable. Enter my solution: Solaris 8 containers.
The documentation for containers was not very clear. I am interpreting two different messages from the Sun website. One says that Solaris8 Containers will work on SPARC systems and/or Systems running Solaris 10 10/08 or later. Other documentation says Solaris Containers are SPARC system dependent.
I installed Solaris 10 on a HP x86 based desktop via VirtualBox. I installed all the SUNWs8brandX patches that came with the containers bundle and followed the install setup directions. I cannot verify as I am getting a "Cannot Execute Brand Specific Error" message.
Does anyone else have a suggestion as to how I would get a Solaris 8 dependent program running on a Linux or Windows based machine? Is my solution viable?

agquint wrote:
What I mean was the post below your first one. But you correctly interpreted it in your next post. So "Solaris 8 containers" only works for SPARC. I don't get why Sun would only have containers support for SPARC systems. That is in total contradiction to why I would think they would develop containers in the first place: backwards compatibility to support programs that aren't yet migrated to the current version of Solaris regardless of whether they are x86 or SPARC. They have a solution but it only works at %50? hmph.There is probably just very little demand for it. During the Solaris8/Solaris9 days, Sun was killing off the x86 line. There is very little installed base of Solaris 8 x86 compared to Solaris 8 SPARC. (It wouldn't help you out, it appears, since you have SPARC binaries).
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   3489      /*
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