Re: evil idea

2007-10-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:49:46 -0400 mv wrote: > Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his > problem? > I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased > with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a > number

Re: evil idea

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:16:50PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > mv wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his > > problem? > > > > I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased > > with its performance and st

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-27 21:49, mv <[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

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
What would be ideal is if you can tell the OS to treat one CPU as a virtual machine and run that inside a jail and/or qemu wrapper (wrapper in that it looks like it is a seperate [emulated] machine to the host OS but in reality it is just running on partioned CPU and memory on the same machine) --

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
mv wrote: > Hello, > > Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his > problem? > > I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased > with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a > number of programs that are on

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread mv
Hello, Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a number of programs that are only available on i386 and

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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