Make a FreeBSD instance within FreeBSD with Jail...

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Diego Montalvo<dmontalvo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a hosting company which allowed me to run my own apps in an
> instance of a "jail" what if I wanted to make a dynamic "jail" that
> has its predefined softwares installed?

The jail(8) utility creates virtualized instances of an operating
system.  The structure of the actual jail is a simple directory [1].

> How does one go about
> duplicating this dynamically?

cpio(1) may be what you are looking for [2].

[1] - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-build.html

[2] - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpio&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=freebsd

-- 
Glen Barber