linux-only jail possible?

[Marc G. Fournier]

Have done it, works half decent ... just go look at something like 
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ...

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, John Nielsen wrote:

> Has anyone tried to run a jail containing only Linux binaries? I need a
> lightweight VM-ish solution to run an arbitrary number of test/dev/demo
> servers (apache + python mostly) but would like it to be reasonably close to
> the "real" servers (running Linux) in terms of software installation and
> maintenance, etc. (Moving the whole show over to FreeBSD is a battle for
> another day..)
>
> Aside from the logistics of actually making this work, are there any known
> or obvious show-stoppers/gotchas/pitfalls/etc?
>
> Ideally yum and rc+init.d would work normally, though I expect a bit of
> startup hackery may be necessary (as well as hand-extracting a bunch of
> RPM's to bootstrap the first jail).
>
> If you have attempted something like this I'd love to hear from you.
>
> Thanks!
>
> JN
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