FreeBSD jail running a Debian or Centos distro

Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Fri Dec 25 01:59:14 UTC 2015


> On Dec 25, 2015, at 8:41 AM, David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone got a FreeBSD jail to run either a Centos or a Debian
> distro of Linux?


Because of how jails work, that is not possible.  Jails are like multiple user installations on a single kernel rooted with a facility like an über chroot, in general terms (more complicated than that of course).  It is not like separate VMs running.



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