From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 08:02:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C169B106564A for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (77-93-215-190.static.masterinter.net [77.93.215.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CFD8FC08 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:01:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2839CB488; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:00:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lev.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z2pRXbB4yXQR; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:00:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE6C9CB498; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:00:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o2380oPt022545; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:00:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:00:50 +0100 From: Roman Divacky To: John Nielsen Message-ID: <20100303080050.GA22322@freebsd.org> References: <201003021325.27197.lists@jnielsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201003021325.27197.lists@jnielsen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-only jail possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:02:00 -0000 I succesfully ran chroot of linux environment on freebsd back in 2007/2008. I firmly believe jail should work fine too On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:25:27PM -0500, John Nielsen wrote: > Has anyone tried to run a jail containing only Linux binaries? I need a > lightweight VM-ish solution to run an arbitrary number of test/dev/demo > servers (apache + python mostly) but would like it to be reasonably close to > the "real" servers (running Linux) in terms of software installation and > maintenance, etc. (Moving the whole show over to FreeBSD is a battle for > another day..) > > Aside from the logistics of actually making this work, are there any known > or obvious show-stoppers/gotchas/pitfalls/etc? > > Ideally yum and rc+init.d would work normally, though I expect a bit of > startup hackery may be necessary (as well as hand-extracting a bunch of > RPM's to bootstrap the first jail). > > If you have attempted something like this I'd love to hear from you. > > Thanks! > > JN > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"