Solaris 8 in a Solaris 10 Container

Dear all,
we came upon the question whether it's possible to run Solaris 8 in a Solaris 10 container. Hereby, the idea is to be able to use Solaris 10 with its great ability of server virtualisation but also to use a Oracle 8i certified operating system at the same time.
Any ideas?
Greetings
/Marc

Ok, that was exactly my first impression. Anyway, i
came to know that there's a project about running
FreeBSD in a Solaris 10 Container. How does this work
if there's just a single (so shared) kernel? Can't
image a FreeBSD system running a Solaris kernel.Here's a quote from a Sun blog on the project:
An example of what I mean is ZoneBSD, an opensource initiative with as goal "will be to factor as much Solaris code as necessary into FreeBSD in order to support running a FreeBSD container within a Solaris 10 Zone", really cool stuff... or as they say around here "Sweeet".
(I can no longer find any current link to the project).
So yes, it appears to have been quite an ambitious project involving merging kernel bits. Not something that's going to help you do anything with Oracle on Solaris 10 GA.
Darren

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