From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 4 12:27:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B8516A423 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:27:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770A243D46 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:27:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (inaxyd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k34CRMTS094548 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:27:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k34CRMnX094547; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:27:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:27:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200604041227.k34CRMnX094547@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20060404120309.GC62595@sysadm.stc> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-amd64 User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:27:28 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Status of NX bit support. X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:27:30 -0000 Igor Robul wrote: > I'm very new to FreeBSD on AMD64 (really, I dont have AMD64 based PC), > so I have two questions: This isn't answering your questions, but it might be helpful anyway: If you want to try FreeBSD/amd64, but you don't have AMD64 hardware, then you can run it inside qemu-system-x86_64 on a FreeBSD/i386 host. > 2) and also, can I use amd64-jail on FreeBSD/i386 on AMD64 host > (I think this is not possible)? That's not possible, but you can run it inside qemu, if you need it (see above). The performance will not be very good, of course, because all of the amd64 instructions have to be emulated in software, but it's good enough for testing and checking things out. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing' just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard." -- Peter van der Linden