From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 17:04:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF321065675 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6088FC19 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47EC93455941; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:04:22 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67349-03; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0A6C4345593D; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:04:22 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BBB3455933; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:04:22 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:04:22 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: John Nielsen In-Reply-To: <201003021325.27197.lists@jnielsen.net> Message-ID: References: <201003021325.27197.lists@jnielsen.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-only jail possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:04:23 -0000 Have done it, works half decent ... just go look at something like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ... On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, John Nielsen wrote: > Has anyone tried to run a jail containing only Linux binaries? I need a > lightweight VM-ish solution to run an arbitrary number of test/dev/demo > servers (apache + python mostly) but would like it to be reasonably close to > the "real" servers (running Linux) in terms of software installation and > maintenance, etc. (Moving the whole show over to FreeBSD is a battle for > another day..) > > Aside from the logistics of actually making this work, are there any known > or obvious show-stoppers/gotchas/pitfalls/etc? > > Ideally yum and rc+init.d would work normally, though I expect a bit of > startup hackery may be necessary (as well as hand-extracting a bunch of > RPM's to bootstrap the first jail). > > If you have attempted something like this I'd love to hear from you. > > Thanks! > > JN > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scrappy@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:scrappy@hub.org