linux-only jail possible?

[Roman Divacky]

I succesfully ran chroot of linux environment on freebsd back in
2007/2008. I firmly believe jail should work fine too

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:25:27PM -0500, John Nielsen wrote:
> 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..)
> 
> Aside from the logistics of actually making this work, are there any known 
> or obvious show-stoppers/gotchas/pitfalls/etc?
> 
> Ideally yum and rc+init.d would work normally, though I expect a bit of 
> startup hackery may be necessary (as well as hand-extracting a bunch of 
> RPM's to bootstrap the first jail).
> 
> If you have attempted something like this I'd love to hear from you.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> JN
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