FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit

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  • vm-bhyve

    Shell based, minimal dependency bhyve manager

  • Perhaps it would! But the userbase is definitely what finally got me into FreeBSD. The fact that hobbyists were contributing such excellent cli tools as `iocage` [0] and `vm-bhyve` [1] really is what got me over my fears.

    [0] https://iocage.io/

    [1] https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve

  • exodus

    Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers.

  • Exodus?

    Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers - https://github.com/intoli/exodus

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  • runj

    runj is an experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails.

  • Here's an implementation. It's not baked sufficiently for production, but it should work. https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj

    > Needing to be root is a major deficiency though

    Linux also needs root for its namespaces.

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