On February 7, 2017 4:40:56 AM GMT+01:00, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> 
wrote:
>  Right now, I'm using a 32-bit CentOS QEMU VM to build Pale Moon for
>older machines.  There's the usual processing overhead of a VM, plus it
>has to have it's own virtual disks with safety margin of space, plus 5
>gigabytes of swap space inside the VM.
>
>  What I'd like to do is a 32-bit CentOS chroot inside my 64-bit Gentoo
>desktop host.  I'm looking at rsync'ing the / directory from inside the
>CentOS VM file system to a directory on the 64-bit host, and then
>chroot
>into the copy on the host.
>
>  Is it possible?  Any booby-traps?  Has anybody here done something
>similar?

I used to do this to build packages for my old 32bit netbook.

To start a 32bit chroot:
# linux32 chroot <directory> /bin/bash

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