Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:56:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit linux emulation Message-ID: <56442.128.135.70.2.1437080215.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507161338450.88007@wonkity.com> References: <55A7D51D.1020605@hiwaay.net> <55A7F1DA.7040106@gmail.com> <55A8054B.7060700@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507161338450.88007@wonkity.com>
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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 supported, hopefully out of date :-) ....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) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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