Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:15:13 -0700 From: Patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> To: James Y Chen <jameschen@juniper.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about Jail Message-ID: <CA%2BdWbmbAATLtHMpXpQ0wMJEr4=-OB7H18uHETEYQTZc42aWueg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <079BB83C1486C245B64B055CF016336A02612843@emailhk3.jnpr.net> References: <079BB83C1486C245B64B055CF016336A02612843@emailhk3.jnpr.net>
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While it may work in some cases, it can be a bad idea because jails use the kernel of the host, and it's probably safest if your userland matches the rest. If you want to play with different versions of FreeBSD, you should do so in a virtualized environment. If jails are a good fit for you and you want to easily keep things up to date across jails, I'd take a look at ezjail: http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/ Patrick On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:20 PM, James Y Chen <jameschen@juniper.net> wrote: > Hi > > I think Jail on FreeBSD 8.2 can generate 2 jailed machine using the same > version of FreeBSD, for example, on a 8.2 AMD64 Jailer, I can create 2 > or more FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Jailed machine. > > My question is: can I install other version of FreeBSD on the Jailed > environment? If yes, which steps shall I do? Still using make world or > other easier way? > > thanks > > > James Y Chen > IT Engineering > Juniper Networks > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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