linux on freebsd?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/5/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> 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

That's both true & false.  You don't need hardware based
virtualization support to use Xen.  However, you'll get far better
performance if your CPU does support virtualization.

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