32-bit jails on a 64-bit system?

[Mark Huizer]

On 3/5/2010 13:40, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:06:10PM +0100, Mark Huizer wrote:
>    
>> On 1/21/2010 10:12, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>>      
>>> I think it is nothing new to 8.0, it is the same as release note for 7.2.
>>>
>>> I didn't test it, but I think you can install (copy) i386 jail (or
>>> whole system) in to amd64 host and just run it as any other jail.
>>>
>>>        
>> Actually, that's what I tried, since I want to move a server to new
>> hardware, but with serious time constraints on my side :-( So my plan
>> is/was: "rsync the entire machine, build a script that fixes IP
>> addresses here and there in the copy, run the jail".
>>
>> I did have to fix a few little things, stuff like copy a few binaries
>> over (netstat, ps, ifconfig, w, top, ldd, ldd32) and of course the ld*
>> files in /libexec. Furthermore I moved /usr/lib to /usr/lib32 and copied
>> /usr/lib from the amd64 install.
>> So far so good, I start jail, I see ssh, apache etc running, I start to
>> get happy.
>>      
> My own experience is that just moving 32bit i386 image onto amd64 host
> is better now then trying to make a hybrid with 32bit binaries and
> both 32 and 64 bit libraries.
>
> You have to disable all management operations in the startup, of course.
> I do not recommend to touch /libexec. You may put statically linked
> 64bit ps/top/netstat etc into the jail for convenience.
>
> Having amd64 bit kernel that can be configured and managed by 32bit
> binaries is the long road. On the other hand, user 32bit applications
> working very good.
>
>    

Well, that is where I started but without success, since ezjail (might 
be ezjail's problem, who knows) had trouble getting sh to work without 
amd64 libs present

Mark