On February 7, 2017 4:40:56 AM GMT+01:00, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > Right now, I'm using a 32-bit CentOS QEMU VM to build Pale Moon for >older machines. There's the usual processing overhead of a VM, plus it >has to have it's own virtual disks with safety margin of space, plus 5 >gigabytes of swap space inside the VM. > > What I'd like to do is a 32-bit CentOS chroot inside my 64-bit Gentoo >desktop host. I'm looking at rsync'ing the / directory from inside the >CentOS VM file system to a directory on the 64-bit host, and then >chroot >into the copy on the host. > > Is it possible? Any booby-traps? Has anybody here done something >similar?
I used to do this to build packages for my old 32bit netbook. To start a 32bit chroot: # linux32 chroot <directory> /bin/bash -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.