From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 16 17:19:07 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6049A3CA2 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x230.google.com (mail-ie0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36E4A198B for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by iebmu5 with SMTP id mu5so60340468ieb.1 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:19:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Xc5txSry/A25OV/qD2XGBIecApt1vMRXmrCLPiBEyGI=; b=cUpMiA8V99EU+ws/7AEFjQHq9Ljesyo4Vmq1U2Dl2UckeY1EYTlIIdzPsjwfJ6F1wa gYyq7ALd/vHkEILIxBNwPQDh6sVHa5BIrWrgboq7c7XkzbGY6McV/cgSTwZlqxQXmcw9 euPcIZrWtfInGqarUul5Hz01uMaZIGAWOwLmoSdi+8uc7BABOag4yimjCVMeuu3OORd/ iuosG2c/vwDUJvQu5NWA3AANySszNe29bBqN4fTn0qOjAFnrDW3qp/YXvcJKXJH58zGZ G+2hJphf+nnziVVskb5MYzm0CJHYmP+6yUUMfxbR8C7+PZC9u3nGG47b7ZxdXarB+ZJ5 czFQ== X-Received: by 10.50.59.211 with SMTP id b19mr4874389igr.42.1437067146604; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id l62sm5389080iol.36.2015.07.16.10.19.05 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55A7E788.2030904@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:19:04 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit linux emulation References: <55A7D51D.1020605@hiwaay.net> <55A7E2B8.6090405@gmail.com> <6911798.EzPSnWE832@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <6911798.EzPSnWE832@curlew.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:19:07 -0000 On 07/16/2015 11:08 AM, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Thursday 16 Jul 2015 10:58:32 jd1008 wrote: > >> Since we are on the subject of emulation, why not just use > Virtual Box >> in which to run Linux 64 bit? > We'd still need emulation for things like nvidia drivers and flash > plugin. > Well, Linux does not depend on Nvidia per se', right? Even if you card is Nvidia, VB can use any of it's graphics drivers which (somehow) talk to the FBSD kernel graphics driver for display. Is that not how things are now? With respect to flash, many sites are switching to html5. The opensource flash plugin I used on Linux did not work well, and consumed 150% of CPU :) :)