From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 16:14:18 2003 Return-Path: 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 7D6C837B405 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B5743FAF for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (12-234-159-107.client.attbi.com[12.234.159.107](untrusted sender)) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <200307172314170150043563e>; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:14:17 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h6HNE8ML054536; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cristjc@comcast.net) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h6HNE4xn054535; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:14:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to cristjc@comcast.net using -f Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:14:04 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Rus Foster Message-ID: <20030717231404.GD53302@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20030717221640.GC53302@blossom.cjclark.org> <20030717152551.I2947@thor.65535.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030717152551.I2947@thor.65535.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Virtual FreeBSD" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:14:18 -0000 On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:27:06PM -0700, Rus Foster wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me exactly what "Virtual FreeBSD" is? If I Google the > > term, I get a whole bunch of help webpages from various web hosting > > outfits. What's spooky is all of the sites have the same content. > > That definately gives me the impression someone is selling a product > > called "Virtual FreeBSD" based off of, you guessed it, FreeBSD. I'm > > trying to figure out exactly what this Virtual FreeBSD is and how it > > differs from the vanilla FreeBSD. > > OK as one of those companies that offer Virtual FreeBSD it is normal > FreeBSD. However what we basically do is run a jail on top of FreeBSD > itself offering a virtual machine i.e. Virtual FreeBSD I figured it was jail(8) or a suped up, customized jail. So where is everyone getting this exact same set of documentation? http://support.securesites.com/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://www.2kweb.net/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://iasweb.com/support/docs/virtual/freebsd.html http://www.vpshosting.net/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://www.aplonis.com/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://www.perilpoint.com/support/virtual/freebsd/ -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org