Wine on amd64 in 32 bit jail
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 09:05:10 UTC 2009
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:38:18AM +0000, xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
> On 2009-11-18 23:19:14, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > Wine is an exceptional bit of software, in many ways.
> > One way it is exceptional is that it uses the system in a number of
> > ways that nothing else does. For example it sets various special
> > segment register settings and defines several different
> > segments on the LDT. This is something that is different to some
> > extent between i386 and amd64 and it is possible that
> > the code for 386 LDT syscalls under amd64 may not work correctly.
> > nothing else would test this.
> >
>
> I agree and would also have likely not even tried if it wasn't for
> reading on FreeBSD's own wiki (amonst other places) that it should
> actually work fine. I've tried various versions and always get the
> same result:
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine
>
> "FreeBSD currently lacks support for 32bit ports on a 64bit system.
> However, with a little bit of effort you can build and use the 32 bit
> wine executable on an amd64 system (Diablo 2 works just fine)."
>
> His instructions show an essentially identical setup to mine (apart
> from the fact that he's running a chroot and I'm running a jail).
>
> Even any ideas on how to debug this would help.
You forgot to note the version of the kernel you use.
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