Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:26:45 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit linux emulation Message-ID: <55A803FE.60004@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55A7E2B8.6090405@gmail.com> References: <55A7D51D.1020605@hiwaay.net> <55A7E2B8.6090405@gmail.com>
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On 07/16/15 12:04, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 07/16/2015 09:59 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>> How is progress on this ? Handbook still says linux 64-bit binaries
>> not supported, hopefully out of date :-) ....
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> Hi Bill,
> if this turns out to be anything like Wine,
> (not meaning to diss wine - but it does have severe limitations),
> then it might not be so worth the effort.
>
> Since we are on the subject of emulation, why not just use Virtual Box
> in which to run Linux 64 bit?
I tried v-box early last fall & had fairly severe issues (crashed the
whole machine) trying to run a 32-bit WinXP VM, so I kinda gave up on
it. There have been *many* updates since then, maybe I should go back.
If I understand things correctly, emulation *should* be a bit simpler to
implement, & *seems* to be up & going under NetBSD, although I have yet
to verify that 1st hand. I do have a QEMU 32-bit WinXP VM setup & mostly
running, using qemu-devel, so I could try that as well. I may revisit
v-box or QEMU, & I will verify what is going on under NetBSD, since I
have a newly commissioned 64-bit NetBSD 6.1.5 server up & running. No
huge issue, I was just curious about any possible progress on that
capability. Thanks :-).
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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