Linuxulator, 32-bit executables, and linux-from-scratch

[Peter Holm]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 02:47:19PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:22:48PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 May 2009 13:49:33 +0300 Kostik Belousov
> > <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:29:11PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > > > And my last question...  I run 7.2-RELEASE/amd64.  Is it possible
> > > > > yet to run a 32-bit WINE environemt under the Linux emulation?
> > > > > Last I heard, the 64-bit kernel was lacking a syscall or two to
> > > > > make this possible.  Has this changed?
> > > > 
> > > > No, and I don't think someone will spend time to do this. AFAIK wine
> > > > makes some very low-level assumptions which are not true in the
> > > > linxulator and most probably will never be true there.
> > > 
> > > Actually, 8.0/amd64 is capable of running FreeBSD/i386 Wine build.
> > 
> > It runs _fully_?
> I do not have a definition for they _fully_ term, but it did executed
> some win32 programs in Peter Holm' setup. I am not sure what exactly he
> did tested. And, win32 codecs for mplayer worked too.
> 

The wine test was firefox with flash, as far as I remember.

- Peter

> This was the point of the r190620.