Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:04:22 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-only jail possible? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003081303490.18783@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <201003021325.27197.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <201003021325.27197.lists@jnielsen.net>
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Have done it, works half decent ... just go look at something like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ... On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, John Nielsen wrote: > Has anyone tried to run a jail containing only Linux binaries? I need a > lightweight VM-ish solution to run an arbitrary number of test/dev/demo > servers (apache + python mostly) but would like it to be reasonably close to > the "real" servers (running Linux) in terms of software installation and > maintenance, etc. (Moving the whole show over to FreeBSD is a battle for > another day..) > > Aside from the logistics of actually making this work, are there any known > or obvious show-stoppers/gotchas/pitfalls/etc? > > Ideally yum and rc+init.d would work normally, though I expect a bit of > startup hackery may be necessary (as well as hand-extracting a bunch of > RPM's to bootstrap the first jail). > > If you have attempted something like this I'd love to hear from you. > > Thanks! > > JN > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scrappy@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:scrappy@hub.org
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