Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 6 12:21:52 UTC 2011


On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 04:54:18 -0600
Zhihao Yuan wrote:


> Not really. The actual thing is, linuxulator is a Linux kernel running
> as a FreeBSD kernel module. The only thing FreeBSD kernel do is to
> identify the Linux program and to pass it to the Linux kernel. To the
> Linux programs inside a GNU chroot enviroment, they think they are
> running inside a Linux box and actually they are running inside a
> Linux box. 

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that it was a
fairly thin emulation layer on top of the FreeBSD kernel. Has something
changed?


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