linux on freebsd?

[James McDonald]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Anyone keeping linux and FreeBSD on the same box? I feel tempted to give
> FreeBSD a try, sharing a box with linux. But if I were to use FreeBSD as
> primary OS I would like to be able to enter the linux part to perform
> upgrades and such without rebooting, as if inside a chroot. Is there
> some emulator that allows this? (I know FreeBSD can run linux binaries,
> but this is a different matter.)
> And is there some sensible way to keep a common /home partition? I'm
> guessing not, due to different filesystems...
>
If your processor supports Virtualization (AMD-V or Intel-VT) then you
can run Xen on linux and have FreeBSD as a client (I think). If not then
you would probably need VMware

I installed FreeBSD successfully on VMWare Workstation (or was that
OpenBSD. no matter).

However you need a lot of RAM so they can coexist without too much
grabbiness.