Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:33:22 +0100 From: "Tonix (Antonio Nati)" <tonix@interazioni.it> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jails creation Message-ID: <4AE7F3C2.4030607@interazioni.it> In-Reply-To: <4AE73ED9.5000505@quip.cz> References: <4AE6C7BD.907@interazioni.it> <4AE7232E.2070208@quip.cz> <4AE728F8.7020809@interazioni.it> <4AE73ED9.5000505@quip.cz>
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Miroslav Lachman ha scritto: > It is not true. Jail command does not requires compilation, nor > exactly same version. I am running 6.x version jail on system with 7.2 > and you can run 32bit (i386) jail on 64bit (amd64) system. I did not know, and this is very useful to me also. I supposed, as the jail kernel is a "fake" kernel, both systems should have the same version, but if I can mix it's a great opportunity. > The `jail` command is there just for starting the jail, not for > building it. The jail even does not need to be a full installed system! > There are too many different scenarios with jails, that there can not > be "one command to satisfy them all". > It is up to administrator to prepare the best environment for his/her > needs. > > If you need the full copy of the base system, you can do it really > easily (by tar as was suggested by Vincet Hoffman or dump & restore), > and if you do it for each jail, you loose the benefits of shared > read-only base directory (you will need more disk space and more memory). > > If you do not want to spend some time by compilation, you can install > the jail from installation media you already have from system install. > > cd /some/media/7.2-RELEASE/base > mkdir /path/to/myjail > setenv DESTDIR /path/to/myjail > sh install.sh > > That's all! It is too simple in contrast to source build or manually > copy something from base. > Thanks! In this way it is a lot more easier to setup and/or customize. Tonino -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Inter@zioni Interazioni di Antonio Nati http://www.interazioni.it tonix@interazioni.it ------------------------------------------------------------
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