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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:39:57 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64-bit linux emulation
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507161338450.88007@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <55A8054B.7060700@hiwaay.net>
References:  <55A7D51D.1020605@hiwaay.net> <55A7F1DA.7040106@gmail.com> <55A8054B.7060700@hiwaay.net>

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On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> On 07/16/15 13:09, Lacey Powers wrote:
>> On 07/16/2015 08:59 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> How is progress on this ? Handbook still says linux 64-bit binaries not 
>>> supported, hopefully out of date :-) ....
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Hello William,
>> 
>> Looks like it's coming along, according to this Quarterly Report:
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.html#Linux-Emulation-Layer,-the-Linuxulator 
>> 
>> And there are commits referencing the "64-bit Linuxulator" in svn, so you 
>> might have some support in 11-CURRENT?
>> 
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/search/query/N4Nlb6bNTrwA/#R
>> 
>> Hope that helps answer your question. =)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Lacey
>
>
> Hmmmmm .... well, sorta, I presume they would be back-ported to 9.3R, since 
> that's what I'm running ....

VirtualBox works well on 10-STABLE, provided you accept the default 
virtual hardware.  On 10.1, too, I think.  Do you have something that 
needs an old version of FreeBSD?



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