Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 12:10:44 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re : Possible to run Linux distro in a jail? Message-ID: <4C0247B4.7010708@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C020F59.3050201@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <533379.74324.qm@web24819.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <4C020F59.3050201@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 30/05/2010 08:10, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 29/05/2010 22:15:37, Alexandre L. wrote: > > I have this link to a French Blog : > http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/Emprisonner_une_debian_dans_un_FreeBSD > > > This describe how to "jail" a Linux Debian in FreeBSD. > > > I hope this will help you. I haven't used it. > > Thanks to its author : Baptiste Daroussin. > > This is technically not Debian *Linux* at all -- it's a Debian project > to merge a BSD kernel with all the GNU shlibs and the various other > utilities used on Debian systems. See > http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ and > http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD Actually my reading of it is a linux userland running under linux compatibility mode as a jail. So no not linux but not quite kFreeBSD either. Vince > > jail(8) uses the same kernel image in the jail as in the base system. > So, in general, jails have to contain pretty much the same OS as the > base. There are some variations possible, like running a 32-bit world > in a jail on a 64-bit box, or running alternate FreeBSD versions to the > main system (takes a bit of tweaking to make work properly, but this is > used by the ports build cluster for example). > > Cheers, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ 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"
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