Re: Running FreeBSD docker images on non-FreeBSD hosts

2016-06-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 02.06.2016 um 22:50 schrieb Jeff Terrell : > > > That said, if one did create such a monstrosity as a docker image > containing a KVM hypervisor containing a FreeBSD VM A guy at work ran a chef-server on Ubuntu in a headless VirtualBox in a Solaris 10 Zone. He really liked Solaris. _

Re: Running FreeBSD docker images on non-FreeBSD hosts

2016-06-02 Thread Jeff Terrell
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Pete Wright wrote: >> So it looks like, if I'm committed to docker, I could run FreeBSD >> inside a KVM inside a container on Linux. Then others who might be >> interested in FreeBSD could play around with it on their Linux hosts >> via docker. > > why?!? Thanks f

Re: Running FreeBSD docker images on non-FreeBSD hosts

2016-06-01 Thread Pete Wright
On 06/01/2016 09:04 AM, Jeff Terrell wrote: So it looks like, if I'm committed to docker, I could run FreeBSD inside a KVM inside a container on Linux. Then others who might be interested in FreeBSD could play around with it on their Linux hosts via docker. why?!? why put yourself and your

Re: Running FreeBSD docker images on non-FreeBSD hosts

2016-06-01 Thread Jeff Terrell
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Kurt Lidl wrote: > What isn't really explained in so many words -- the container uses the > system calls from the hosting computer to evaluate anything that it > needs the "kernel" to do. So your "FreeBSD docker" image, when run on > a Linux machine, is attempting

Re: Running FreeBSD docker images on non-FreeBSD hosts

2016-06-01 Thread Kurt Lidl
I'm acquainted with docker, but I don't know enough to understand why an image would run in a container on one OS but not in a container on another OS. I thought the whole point of docker was that, assuming the image worked at all, it worked regardless of which host you used. So that's an incident

Re: Running FreeBSD docker images on non-FreeBSD hosts

2016-05-31 Thread Allan Jude
On 2016-05-31 17:02, Jeff Terrell wrote: To work around the current inability to mount volumes in FreeBSD docker, I'd like to use a FreeBSD docker image on a non-FreeBSD host. Then I can both run FreeBSD in a docker container and mount a volume in the container, both of which are necessary for my

Running FreeBSD docker images on non-FreeBSD hosts

2016-05-31 Thread Jeff Terrell
To work around the current inability to mount volumes in FreeBSD docker, I'd like to use a FreeBSD docker image on a non-FreeBSD host. Then I can both run FreeBSD in a docker container and mount a volume in the container, both of which are necessary for my purposes. (For background, I'm trying to