Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:33:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: evil idea Message-ID: <20071028003344.GA2491@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <2fd864e0710262134u6ea0fb97offb687fe68e4e420@mail.gmail.com> References: <4722BBC8.9060902@gmail.com> <2fd864e0710262134n3801404ewf8861730b760a9d9@mail.gmail.com> <2fd864e0710262134u6ea0fb97offb687fe68e4e420@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2007-10-26 23:34, Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> wrote: >On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I >> absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of >> RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I "downgrade" to i386. So >> here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine >> (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to >> use -CURRENT for all my installs) >> >> Any thing I should watch out for here (I know I need to use NFS or >> something like it to share files between the host and guest OS's) > > There's actually a known system that will work for this. You can use > your existing swap partition, as an "extra" root partition, installing > there, then booting to that, then rebuild/install to your original > partition. Its the same basic idea as the method for updating from > 4.x->7.x, and should be on the lists. (Note to docs, might be worth > putting it somewhere.) I don't think Aryeh wants to "install i386 over his current amd64". What he seems to be asking is if he can run *two* versions, one of them as a virtualized host under qemu. That should work, AFAIK.
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