32-bit jail on 64-bit host

Chris bsd-lists at bsdforge.com
Thu Apr 22 19:27:13 UTC 2021


On 2021-04-22 11:13, Peter Blok wrote:
> I tried to replace some of the 32-bit binaries before, but it started to 
> require
> shared libs as well, so I stopped. I’ll give it a shot later.
I'm not sure which binaries you might need either. But could /rescue bring 
you
any closer?

--Chris
> 
> I now run it with out vnet and it indeed works. I have managed to compile
> p5-DBD-Oracle which works now.
> 
> Because all of my other jails were vnet jails, I didn’t think about doing it 
> the
> old way without vnet.
> 
> Peter
> 
>> On 22 Apr 2021, at 15:39, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 12:32 +0200, Daniel Dettlaff via freebsd-hackers
>> wrote:
>>> If you need to run 32bit software with 64bit base system just try
>>> creating 64bit jail with lib32 subsystem present. Then 32bit software
>>> should be able to run properly in such jail, but you can't run 32bit
>>> jail on 64bit base as Eugene said.
>>> 
>> 
>> That is not what Eugene said, and you CAN run a 32-bit jail on a 64-bit
>> host; I do so on this machine.  As Eugene said, you simply need to copy
>> a few selected 64-bit binaries into the jail, replacing the 32-bit
>> version of those programs.  That is, install the jail from a 32-bit
>> build or packages, and then just copy the necessary few binaries from
>> your host root filesystem into the jail.
>> 
>> It would be nice if there was a list somewhere of which binaries need
>> to be replaced.  I just did it by trial and error... when I ran into
>> things that didn't work, I tried using a 64-bit copy of that program
>> and if it worked: problem solved.
>> 
>> -- Ian
>> 
>>>> On 22 Apr 2021, at 10:36, Peter Blok <pblok at bsd4all.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I have created a 32-bit jail on a 64-bit running 12-STABLE. The
>>>> jail is also build using the same source.
>>>> 
>>>> The jail gives me a 32-bit environment. I’m getting an IP address
>>>> and I can ping others on the same network segment.
>>>> 
>>>> But I can’t set a default route.
>>>> 
>>>> route add default 192.168.1.1
>>>> route: writing to routing socket: Invalid argument
>>>> add net default: gateway 192.168.1.1 fib 0: Invalid argument
>>>> 
>>>> # netstat -rn
>>>> Routing tables
>>>> (0) (0) UH
>>>> (0) (0) U
>>>> (0) (0) UHS
>>>> (0) (0) UH
>>>> (0) (0) U
>>>> (0) (0) UHS
>>>> 
>>>> # ifconfig -a
>>>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>>>> 	options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
>>>> 	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>>> 	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>>>> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>>> 	groups: lo
>>>> 	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>> e0b_websip: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>>>> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>> 	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>>>> 	ether 0e:88:d7:20:99:80
>>>> 	hwaddr 02:80:ad:6e:79:0b
>>>> 	inet 192.168.1.205 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>>> 	groups: epair
>>>> 	media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
>>>> 	status: active
>>>> 	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea how to fix this?
>>>> 
>>>> I’m using vnet bridge
>>>> 
>>>> Peter
>>>> 
>> 
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