bhyve/arm6/amd64 query

John freebsd-lists at potato.growveg.org
Mon Sep 7 15:05:43 UTC 2015


On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 03:33:24PM +0300, Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
> AFAIK no. Bhyve is a plain hardware type of container,
> not a hardware emulator like qemu, nor a jail type
> container.
> You should be looking for qemu or something similar.
> Bhyve can be used for hosting other operating systems
> on the same type of HW as the vanilla system.

OK, thanks. You've saved me the work of trying then failing terribly :D

It doesn't have to be hosted. The reason for me asking is, basically can I take
the image and (as an image, not as an OS) can it be updated/recompiled on different,
higher spec hardware, then returned to the Pi?

Hopefully I'm describing this right. You know on say amd64, an arm6 system can be
cross-compiled as an installable system. That system is running. I have updated it
(while installed on RPI2 hardware) and installed my configs, it works great. 
Now I can unplug the microSD, dd it to a .img file, on another system, to archive it. 
What I'm asking is, can I take that image while it's on the other system, and 
interact with it to the extent that I can update/upgrade it?

*the other system is also freebsd11, but amd64*

thanks,
-- 
John


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