Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:25:27 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: linux-only jail possible? Message-ID: <201003021325.27197.lists@jnielsen.net>
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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
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