i386 in jail on amd64

[Valeri Galtsev]

Is there any reason to not use virtual machine (e.g. VirtualBox) with real
i386 in it instead of jail? Just curious.

Valeri
On Thu, May 24, 2012 6:38 pm, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
> On 24 May 2012 23:46, Thomas D. Dean <tomdean at speakeasy.org> wrote:
>> I have i386 running in jail on amd64, sort of.
>> I need the i386 environment to develop for a nanoBSD installaion
>> on an ELAN SC520.
> ...
>> There seem to be some problems.  Often things are just flaky.  No
>> problem I
>> can describe, just things are 'off'.
>
>
> I have been down that road as well, but it failed. These are my 2cts,
> somebody please correct me if I am wrong. Your /dev pseudo system
> inside your jail is an amd64 type where as your userland within your
> jail are of i386 type. Those conflict with each-other, causing all
> kind of weird and wonderful behavior.
>
> My biggest hint of things really going wrong, came when creating md(4)
> devices, from within the jail.
>
> Br. /Rick
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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