From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 10:24:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8CC37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DFF43F13 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jshenry@comcast.net) Received: from whitetower (bgp01561290bgs.gambrl01.md.comcast.net [68.50.33.221]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003)) with ESMTP id <0H940077IODC8P@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:22:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:22:24 -0500 (EST) From: "J. Seth Henry" Subject: Building Linux binaries under FreeBSD/Linux layer X-X-Sender: jshenry@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20030122131634.O30220-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know this is probably going to be an odd question, but is there a way to create true "linux" shell within FreeBSD, capable of running linux gcc and creating a linux binary? I want to play with Midori Linux, which involves compiling a lot of Linux source, for Linux. Dual booting is out of the question (my FreeBSD box runs the home automation system). I suspect it *could* be done with a carefully configured shell, and a bunch of Linux RPM's installed to support gcc and the assorted libraries. Is this possible, and if so, has pulled a stunt like this? If not, how well does VMware run under FreeBSD, and can you ssh into the virtual machine once it's up? Thanks, Seth Henry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message