Not sure what in the announcement you are referring to. The only thing it says about Docker is that it has brought move visibility to OS-virtualization. But, J

Not sure what in the announcement you are referring to. The only thing it says about Docker is that it has brought move visibility to OS-virtualization. But, Joyent is infact working on docker support for SmartOS. They have revived an old Solaris feature called LX-branded zones that allows running linux binaries directly in SmartOS. Bryan Cantrill gave a talk on it at SurgeConf this year: video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs slides: http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx