Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:12:20 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Cc: freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 32-bit jails on a 64-bit system? Message-ID: <4B581A74.5060000@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1001210142470.815@hotlap.local>
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Charles Sprickman wrote: > Howdy, > > I saw this little tidbit in the 8.0 Release Notes... > > ---- > 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, I have a jail running a bunch of 32-bit > 4.11 stuff on a 7.2 amd64 box), but it was not easy. > > Looking at the jail manpage and handbook entries, I'm not seeing > anything that further explains the changes. I've been able to get some > things working in a test setup, but not everything. Any pointers to what > exactly that blurb in the release notes actually means? Google is > getting me nowhere. > > My current scenario is this... I have a backups server with a ton of > space. Nightly backups run to this and get zfs-snapshotted each night. I > also have created jails for a number of important hosts so that should I > lose a host, I can bring up a jail on this box to replace it while I > repair things. One host is a 7.2/i386 box. The backups host is > 8.0/amd64. Ideally I'd like to copy everything, including the base OS > into this jail, except for perhaps "ps", "top" and other utilities that > might have issues. (freebsd-jail@ was added in to Cc:) I think it is nothing new to 8.0, it is the same as release note for 7.2. I didn't test it, but I think you can install (copy) i386 jail (or whole system) in to amd64 host and just run it as any other jail. Miroslav Lachmanhome | help
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