linux on freebsd?

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.

And you need a cooperating (para-virtualized) guest OS, if you do not have 
hardware-virtualization.

As for VMware not "being" for FreeBSD, if you host on Linux, FreeBSD can be a 
guest... not the other way around however.

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