On 2007-10-26 23:34, Astrodog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I >> absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of >> RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I "downgrade" to i386. So >> here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine >> (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to >> use -CURRENT for all my installs) >> >> Any thing I should watch out for here (I know I need to use NFS or >> something like it to share files between the host and guest OS's) > > There's actually a known system that will work for this. You can use > your existing swap partition, as an "extra" root partition, installing > there, then booting to that, then rebuild/install to your original > partition. Its the same basic idea as the method for updating from > 4.x->7.x, and should be on the lists. (Note to docs, might be worth > putting it somewhere.)
I don't think Aryeh wants to "install i386 over his current amd64". What he seems to be asking is if he can run *two* versions, one of them as a virtualized host under qemu. That should work, AFAIK. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
