FreeBSD jail running a Debian or Centos distro

[Ricky G]

 This is something I actually worked on quite a bit, and it IS possible. Have had both a centos, and debian jail running and usable. There are many missing ABI calls to the kernel and it causes many programs to not work properly. If your still interested this is a good guide for debian for the most part, but a bit out of date. Keep that in mind when following it. Also, I couldn't upgrade to jessie, but wheezy appears to run ok.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/install-debian-gnu-linux-using-debootstrap-on-a-freebsd-jail-with-zfs.41470/



 Can't remember how to do centos. It must be much easier than the debian if I can't remember. =]



Good luck!Ricky

> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:33:54 -0600
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD jail running a Debian or Centos distro
> From: amvandemore at gmail.com
> To: chad at shire.net
> CC: dave.mehler at gmail.com; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> 
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC <chad at shire.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > On Dec 25, 2015, at 8:41 AM, David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Has anyone got a FreeBSD jail to run either a Centos or a Debian
> > > distro of Linux?
> >
> >
> > Because of how jails work, that is not possible.
> >
> 
> It's certainly possible to run a much more fully fledged linux userland in
> a jail which might be what the OP is asking.
> 
> https://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/the-midnight-oil-jailing-centos6-in-freebsd-10-2/
> 
> However, if this request is some attempt at a workaround to the previous
> question concerning mysql then this is quite misguided and a classic
> example of an XY problem.  It is going to turn a relatively simple problem
> into a nightmare.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Adam
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