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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:27:23 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Diego Montalvo <dmontalvo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Make a FreeBSD instance within FreeBSD with Jail...
Message-ID:  <4ad871310907120627m2f7a509dv9d4347a940129293@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aefec1610907120620t4e2b624ei56b76719038431fc@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <aefec1610907120620t4e2b624ei56b76719038431fc@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Diego Montalvo<dmontalvo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a hosting company which allowed me to run my own apps in an
> instance of a "jail" what if I wanted to make a dynamic "jail" that
> has its predefined softwares installed?

The jail(8) utility creates virtualized instances of an operating
system.  The structure of the actual jail is a simple directory [1].

> How does one go about
> duplicating this dynamically?

cpio(1) may be what you are looking for [2].

[1] - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-build.html

[2] - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpio&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=freebsd

-- 
Glen Barber



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