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 stability.

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 of

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 is created

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

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 only

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 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 created

evil idea

2007-10-26 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
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 created if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less

evil idea

2007-10-26 Thread Astrodog
-- Forwarded message -- From: Astrodog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 26, 2007 11:34 PM Subject: Re: evil idea To: Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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