Re: FreeBSD on MacBook -- can the original MacOS be booted inside a VM?

2015-01-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Jan 14, 2015, at 2:05 PM, Mikhail T. wrote: > I'll have a new laptop soon and would like to run FreeBSD on it (dual boot). > However, I may still need the capabilities of the original MacOS from time to > time. > > One obvious solution would be to simply reboot into MacOS, but I'm wondering,

Re: freebsd arm guest on freebsd amd64 bhyve

2015-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Sep 6, 2015, at 10:52 AM, John wrote: > Can a freebsd-arm6 (freebsd11) guest run on a freebsd 10.2 amd64 bhyve host? In a word, no. Bhyve only does native and legacy-free virtualization, which means the guest MUST be the same architecture as the host. (You can run e.g. a 32-bit i686 guest o

Re: linux-only jail possible?

2010-03-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 07 March 2010 05:44:37 Ed Schouten wrote: > * Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:15:12 +0100 Ed Schouten wrote: > > > I am still in doubt what to do. Maybe we could consider committing a > > > patch like this: > > > > [...] > > > > > This is a bit more complete. What i

Re: linux-only jail possible?

2010-03-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 04 March 2010 13:22:57 John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 05:40:50 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:06:36 +0100 Roman Divacky > > > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:59:49AM -0500, John Nielsen wrote: > > >

Re: linux-only jail possible?

2010-03-10 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 03:34:21 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting John Nielsen (from Mon, 8 Mar 2010 > > 17:28:14 -0500): > > I hit another hurdle with Apache but I don't seem to be the first. > > httpd will start but its forked connection-handling children die

Re: linux-only jail possible?

2010-03-15 Thread John Nielsen
ew=revision&revision=204825 I finally tried the patch from SVN today and it does NOT resolve the openpty issue on FreeBSD 8-STABLE amd64 + CentOS 5.4 i386 jail + OpenSSH 4.3p2. I still (or again) get the "fatal: openpty returns device for which ttyname fails." message. Your prior patch

Re: linux-only jail possible?

2010-03-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 05:02:21 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting John Nielsen (from Mon, 15 Mar 2010 > > 20:46:05 -0400): > > On Sunday 07 March 2010 05:44:37 am Ed Schouten wrote: > >> * Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:15:12 +01

Re: linux-only jail possible?

2010-03-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 10:23:37 John Nielsen wrote: > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 05:02:21 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting John Nielsen (from Mon, 15 Mar 2010 > > > > 20:46:05 -0400): > > > On Sunday 07 March 2010 05:44:37 am Ed Schouten wrote: >

CentOS in a FreeBSD jail howto

2010-10-09 Thread John Nielsen
This is a followup to my thread "linux-only jail possible?" of a few months ago. I've been pretty successful in my efforts and now have a jail which contains only CentOS binaries and runs Python, Apache, sshd, PostgreSQL, yum, rpm, etc without problems. Since that's what I plan to use for my cu

virtio-serial available?

2013-04-23 Thread John Nielsen
Bryan (or anyone on the list)- Can you tell me if virtio-serial is available in a FreeBSD guest? Do you know of any plans for it? I'd like to use it for host<->guest communication a la http://log.amitshah.net/2010/09/communication-between-guests-and-hosts/. Thanks, JN ___

Re: virtio-serial available?

2013-04-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John Nielsen wrote: >> Bryan (or anyone on the list)- >> >> Can you tell me if virtio-serial is available in a FreeBSD guest? Do you >> know of any plans for it? >> >&