Can I run a 32-bit jail (or software) on a 64-bit server?

[Devin Teske]

I wrote a utility (attached) to make the process really fast and easy:



jail_build(8): Build FreeBSD jails from binary distributions


Here's a simple howto:

Step 1: Create a landing zone for your binary distribution (jail_build(8) looks in `/usr/repos' for binary distributions)...

sudo mkdir -p /usr/repos
sudo cd /usr/repos

Step 2: Download one or more binary FreeBSD distributions (any version, any platform)...

wget -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE

Step 3: Download jail_build(8)...

cd
wget http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/jail_build.txt
mv jail_build.txt jail_build
chmod +x jail_build

Step 4: Build your jail(s)...

./jail_build
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Devin

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P.S. Feedback welcome.


On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote:

> How do I create a 32-bit jail on a 64-bit machine then?
> 
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3744 did not tell me much.
> 
> Thanks!
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