Running various OS's in jail

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Nov 5 21:00:43 UTC 2013


Hi--

On Nov 5, 2013, at 12:53 PM, aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I've a write up on FreeBSD 8 jailing Centos 5.5.

You can run many Linux binaries in a FreeBSD jail via the Linux
binary support, just as you can run them directly outside a jail.

That's not the same thing as running the full OS including a different
kernel; instead, FreeBSD emulates the Linux kernel and syscall layer; see:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-emulation/article.html

Regardsm
-- 
-Chuck



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