From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 30 12:56:01 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707DC9AE065 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:56:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from terje@elde.net) Received: from rand.keepquiet.net (keepquiet.net [144.76.43.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "keepquiet.net", Issuer "PositiveSSL CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 359A32FF for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:56:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from terje@elde.net) Received: from [10.130.10.105] (cm-84.210.76.250.getinternet.no [84.210.76.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: terje@elde.net) by rand.keepquiet.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 23D4F809; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:55:51 +0000 (UTC) References: <55BA1306.3070201@yahoo.com> <55BA18C3.3040307@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55BA18C3.3040307@hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <9375E0BE-864C-4087-BC9C-1BCC243524A4@elde.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10B500) From: Terje Elde Subject: Re: Virtualization on FreeBSD Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:55:50 +0200 To: "William A. Mahaffey III" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:56:01 -0000 On 30. juli 2015, at 14:29, "William A. Mahaffey III" wrote= : > Can jails run non-native guests/VM's (M$FT, for example) ? I thought I saw= something about this online a while back, but haven't been able to re-acqui= re it .... I'm on 9.3R-p20, BTW .... Jails are not - and this is the good part - virtualization. It's a way of co= mpartmentalizing so you can have multiple FreeBSD installs in different jail= s, or even just single programs.=20 For web for example, I'll often run webservers in one jail, and database ser= ver in another, to get a degree of isolation between them. It's not really intended to solve running another operating system, though y= ou might be able to run some linux binaries in a jail.=20 Terje