bhyve/arm6/amd64 query

[Cleber A. Nascimento]

2015-09-07 12:05 GMT-03:00 John <freebsd-lists at potato.growveg.org>:

> 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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Think about Crochet, maybe this tool is you looking for.
And about packages I have some success with Poudriere.

Regards,

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Cleber Alves

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