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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:44:11 +0000
From:      Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>
To:        <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, <spork@bway.net>
Cc:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: 32-bit jails on a 64-bit system?
Message-ID:  <BLU138-W12E5065EF8473A0A4BEC7CF6630@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <4B581A74.5060000@quip.cz>
References:  <alpine.OSX.2.00.1001210142470.815@hotlap.local>, <4B581A74.5060000@quip.cz>

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> Date: Thu=2C 21 Jan 2010 10:12:20 +0100
> From: 000.fbsd@quip.cz
> To: spork@bway.net
> CC: freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.org=3B freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 32-bit jails on a 64-bit system?
>
>> The jail(8) subsystem has been updated. Changes include:
>>
>> Compatibility support which permits 32-bit jail binaries to be used on
>> 64-bit systems to manage jails has been added.
>> ----
>>
>> I know prior to 8.0 with some fancy footwork you could do some
>> interesting things (for example=2C I have a jail running a bunch of 32-b=
it
>> 4.11 stuff on a 7.2 amd64 box)=2C but it was not easy.
>>
>> Looking at the jail manpage and handbook entries=2C I'm not seeing
>> anything that further explains the changes. I've been able to get some
>> things working in a test setup=2C but not everything. Any pointers to wh=
at
>> exactly that blurb in the release notes actually means? Google is
>> getting me nowhere.
>>
>
> (freebsd-jail@ was added in to Cc:)
>
> I think it is nothing new to 8.0=2C it is the same as release note for 7.=
2.
>
> I didn't test it=2C but I think you can install (copy) i386 jail (or whol=
e
> system) in to amd64 host and just run it as any other jail.
>

It might be useful this thread about 32-bit jail on 64-bit host:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2009-January/007553.html

Regards.

Andrew

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