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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:28:00 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: started playing with jails
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In response to "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@dfwlp.org>:

> another quick jails question:
> 
> in my VMware environment, its quite common to create a VM on one machine, and
> then take the VM's files and move them to another machine.  how well would this
> work with a jail?  say, so tar the entire root directory of the jail, and
> move/untar on to another server?

In theory, it should work fine.  I've never tried it.

I expect you'll need to have _exactly_ the same versions of FreeBSD on
each machine.

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Bill Moran
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