linux-only jail possible?

[Andrew Hotlab]

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> From: lists at jnielsen.net
> To: freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:25:27 -0500
> CC: freebsd-jail at freebsd.org
> Subject: linux-only jail possible?
>
> Has anyone tried to run a jail containing only Linux binaries? I need a
> lightweight VM-ish solution to run an arbitrary number of test/dev/demo
> servers (apache + python mostly) but would like it to be reasonably close to
> the "real" servers (running Linux) in terms of software installation and
> maintenance, etc. (Moving the whole show over to FreeBSD is a battle for
> another day..)
>
> If you have attempted something like this I'd love to hear from you.
>

I didn't attempt that but, if I can make a suggestion, I would never spend time in making a Linux userland run on a BSD kernel while I can run Linux binaries directly on FreeBSD using the Linux ABI (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/linuxemu.html).
I heard about a project that aims to do what you are looking for (http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu), but I do not know at what stage it is.

My genuine suggestion is to spend time to advocate BSD and persuade your company to "move the whole show on it"!  ... please note that this suggestion is coming from a multi-certified Microsoft specialist! ;)

Sincerely.

Andrew
 		 	   		  
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