64-bit linux emulation

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 07/16/15 14:46, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> On 07/16/15 13:09, Lacey Powers wrote:
>>> On 07/16/2015 08:59 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How is progress on this ? Handbook still says linux 64-bit binaries 
>>>> not supported, hopefully out of date :-) ....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello William,
>>>
>>> Looks like it's coming along, according to this Quarterly Report:
>>>
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.html#Linux-Emulation-Layer,-the-Linuxulator 
>>>
>>> And there are commits referencing the "64-bit Linuxulator" in svn, 
>>> so you might have some support in 11-CURRENT?
>>>
>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/search/query/N4Nlb6bNTrwA/#R
>>>
>>> Hope that helps answer your question. =)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Lacey
>>
>>
>> Hmmmmm .... well, sorta, I presume they would be back-ported to 9.3R, 
>> since that's what I'm running ....
>
> VirtualBox works well on 10-STABLE, provided you accept the default 
> virtual hardware.  On 10.1, too, I think.  Do you have something that 
> needs an old version of FreeBSD?


That's what I installed when I built the box, website said supported 
through end of 2016, which I liked. I found some online references back 
then which were not overly flattering about clang vs. gcc, much (50+ %) 
slower compiled code, other issues, so I went with 9.3R. I was & am 
looking for stability & as much performance as I can get out of my 
puny-ish (AMD sempron 3850) CPU & gfx. Different versions of VBox on 10 
vs. 9.3R ?


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