Wine on amd64 in 32 bit jail

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Sat Nov 21 00:27:50 UTC 2009


KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
>>> On 2009-11-18 23:19:14, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
>>>> Wine is an exceptional bit of software, in many ways.
> 
>>>   http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine
>>>
>>>   "FreeBSD currently lacks support for 32bit ports on a 64bit system.
>>>    However, with a little bit of effort you can build and use the 32 bit
>>>    wine executable on an amd64 system (Diablo 2 works just fine)."
>>>
>>> His instructions show an essentially identical setup to mine (apart
>>> from the fact that he's running a chroot and I'm running a jail).
>>
>> jail may not alow you to do the LDT system calls.
>>
>> have you tried a chroot?
> 
> Is there any reason to fear Microsoft viruses infecting Wine programs? 
> Is that why he is using a jail?  Would there be a greater danger of 
> virus infection with chroot?

I was thinking just as a test, but others have answered the question I 
believe.

> 
> 
>>
>>>
>>> Even any ideas on how to debug this would help.
>>>
>>> xw
>>
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