Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:05:15 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit linux emulation Message-ID: <36947.128.135.70.2.1437091515.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <55A83C4E.1000502@hiwaay.net> References: <55A7D51D.1020605@hiwaay.net> <55A7F1DA.7040106@gmail.com> <55A8054B.7060700@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507161338450.88007@wonkity.com> <56442.128.135.70.2.1437080215.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <55A83C4E.1000502@hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, July 16, 2015 6:20 pm, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 07/16/15 16:03, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On Thu, July 16, 2015 2:39 pm, Warren Block wrote: >>> >On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> > >>>> >>On 07/16/15 13:09, Lacey Powers wrote: >>>>> >>>On 07/16/2015 08:59 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>>>> >>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>How is progress on this ? Handbook still says linux 64-bit >>>>>> binaries >>>>>> >>>>not >>>>>> >>>>supported, hopefully out of date:-) .... >>>>>> >>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>Hello William, >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>Looks like it's coming along, according to this Quarterly Report: >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.html#Linux-Emulation-Layer,-the-Linuxulator >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>And there are commits referencing the "64-bit Linuxulator" in svn, >>>>> so >>>>> >>>you >>>>> >>>might have some support in 11-CURRENT? >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>https://reviews.freebsd.org/search/query/N4Nlb6bNTrwA/#R >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>Hope that helps answer your question. =) >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>Regards, >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>>Lacey >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >>Hmmmmm .... well, sorta, I presume they would be back-ported to >>>> 9.3R, >>>> >>since >>>> >>that's what I'm running .... >>> > >>> >VirtualBox works well on 10-STABLE, provided you accept the default virtual hardware. On 10.1, too, I think. >> I confirm VirtualBox works perfectly on FreeBSD 10.1. As a matter of fact >> I never had problems with it; used on 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (guest systems: Windows XP, 7, FreeBSD 8, 9, 10, CentOS 5, 6, 7, Fedora 5, 13, 16, 20, Ubuntu 10, 14, OpenBSD 4.9, Debian 7, ReactOS,... - list is not complete) > > Hmmmmm .... Could well have been pilot error on my end, certainly wouldn't be the 1st time :-/. I *think* I took all defaults except for HDD size & amount of RAM assigned, but nothing else. I posted some questions back in that time frame (Fall 2014), but no resolution. I'll look at it again, it would be *sweet* if it would work fairly seamlessly w/ 32-bit WinXP, 64-bit Win7, maybe some 64-SuSE LTS .... > I probably should say something about the box I've listed these host systems and vbox guest systems I run on (I hope, it may give you some clues about what happened in your case): root@point:~ # sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu' hw.machine: amd64 hw.model: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2378 hw.ncpu: 8 hw.machine_arch: amd64 root@point:~ # sysctl -a | egrep -i 'memory' Virtual Memory: (Total: 18894936K Active: 18819128K) Real Memory: (Total: 2607240K Active: 2394088K) Shared Virtual Memory: (Total: 259468K Active: 242368K) Shared Real Memory: (Total: 52344K Active: 51300K) Free Memory: 10305512K hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 p1003_1b.memory_protection: 0 p1003_1b.shared_memory_objects: 200112 root@point:~ # uname -a FreeBSD point.uchicago.edu 10.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p9 #2 r282515: Wed May 6 11:00:31 CDT 2015 valeri@point.uchicago.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 (this same box run earlier 9.3 and 10.0 RELEASE) This box has 3ware 9750 RAID controller with 8 drives in RAID-6 configuration, with cache it is fast enough, still I never run more that 3 different virtual machines simultaneously, 1 or 2 usually. (otherwise storage throughput may become bothleneck I think). VMs usually have rather generic amount of RAM: 2GB or 1GB, only Windows7 has 8GB; whatever I run, host system definitely has more than 2GB left for itself (not that I mean to say it needs this amount). Originally (on 9.3 and 10.0) I was building vbox from port; on 10.1 (or at some point on 10.0) I have it installed using pkg. Also, the box has pretty good dual socket tyan systemboard: S3992 if my memory doesn't fail me. And RAM is from good source, never had problems with their ram. (Not that I love myself this much, just when my workstation died I decided not to spend money on replacement, but put in the box spare parts I had on the shelf for servers... if one of them is needed for a server, there goes my workstation... pretty noisy beast too). BTW, if any system crashes my first suspect would be RAM, - but it's probably just me: I usually run RELEASE, nothing experimental. I hope, this helps. Valeri > > -- > > William A. Mahaffey III > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war > ever devised by man." > -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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