From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 07:10:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ABF31065672 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 07:10:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E528FC0C for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 07:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcmm1 with SMTP id m1so1003096vcm.13 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:10:09 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of sclists@gmail.com designates 10.52.93.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.52.93.18; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sclists@gmail.com designates 10.52.93.18 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=sclists@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=sclists@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.52.93.18]) by 10.52.93.18 with SMTP id cq18mr21726216vdb.40.1330758609951 (num_hops = 1); Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:10:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6QRkQRBdRR0Y0G39Dbl40Qj5UtaWAMR2PBh3hE8uCxI=; b=Ptb4lKfWlaK41fi9zmtr97zKk0uArI2VyiYpi+CP0aRjUeR1+6/e5SC359c4xoFe/I ReK8WLQPyh3MVoYD5hDQ/aOWzkhcKYiNOLotZV5XjelPvKs9eDVz0ktzUZiXurcvLB+p zlD6Xdgu3OX37a2uOXcxy7EL2R4uu8c5kS6XlDvTBXjLYuM7Z+5o9Z1W6V+b4oOzQYhp vD0RfPWMZz63jhrn4nfW7i7ITOciVUzmmzMKAqeJHdU2qVZSnTIEAXwuXhWEWmADLy7Q nc3JbwdEd+qoXXyDm91Tvi3gz3zdLvfX67DbCAtJv+lwiiVw6bvRBj4VFsmoUwUZ33ly YfTQ== Received: by 10.52.93.18 with SMTP id cq18mr18525957vdb.40.1330758609872; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:10:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (ool-182c6755.dyn.optonline.net. [24.44.103.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cp2sm12914822vdb.3.2012.03.02.23.10.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:10:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F51C3D9.5010303@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:10:17 -0500 From: Stephen Cook User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shane Ambler References: <4F4BB539.7030103@gmail.com> <4F51A4BF.3060200@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <4F51A4BF.3060200@ShaneWare.Biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:10:17 -0000 On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: >> I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on >> cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. >> setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc). > > Another option to look at is using FreeBSD's Jails. Handbook chapter 16 > > Basically you can setup multiple jails on the machine that use the > kernel of the base system (so it's not an entire emulated machine) but > each jail has it's own environment, apps etc. > I read up on jails and I am impressed, I had a vague idea about them but they are apparently a lot more powerful than I thought. This will get some use from me in the future when I'm setting up real servers. However, for what I'm currently doing, I want to stick with a bunch of VirtualBox VMs so I can simulate database failover by killing the VM in rude way, dynamically throw another "machine" into the mix, etc. Thanks! -- Stephen