Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:10:17 -0500 From: Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com> To: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system Message-ID: <4F51C3D9.5010303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F51A4BF.3060200@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <4F4BB539.7030103@gmail.com> <4F51A4BF.3060200@ShaneWare.Biz>
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On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: >> I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on >> cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. >> setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc). > > Another option to look at is using FreeBSD's Jails. Handbook chapter 16 > > Basically you can setup multiple jails on the machine that use the > kernel of the base system (so it's not an entire emulated machine) but > each jail has it's own environment, apps etc. > I read up on jails and I am impressed, I had a vague idea about them but they are apparently a lot more powerful than I thought. This will get some use from me in the future when I'm setting up real servers. However, for what I'm currently doing, I want to stick with a bunch of VirtualBox VMs so I can simulate database failover by killing the VM in rude way, dynamically throw another "machine" into the mix, etc. Thanks! -- Stephen
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