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Subject: Re: FreeBSD jail running a Debian or Centos distro
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> On Dec 25, 2015, at 8:41 AM, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> Has anyone got a FreeBSD jail to run either a Centos or a Debian
> distro of Linux?


Because of how jails work, that is not possible.  Jails are like =
multiple user installations on a single kernel rooted with a facility =
like an =C3=BCber chroot, in general terms (more complicated than that =
of course).  It is not like separate VMs running.