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Re: Project-FiFo cloud orchestration adds FreeBSD support

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Post by ranty » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 12:13 AM UTC

X86BSD wrote: post #20

Annatar wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think FreeBSD’s capability to run Linux binaries predates even lx branded zones in Solaris 10.

It does, I was a bit confused at first as well. It should be noted when project fifo says "lx jails" it does not mean LX branded zones from SmartOS. It means FreeBSD's native Linuxulator. Which has been in FreeBSD for.. many many years. It's a similar take on LX zones, but FreeBSD native. It does the same thing. Runs native Linux binaries.

Asking because last time I looked the FBSD stuff wasn't "really there". This would seem to still be the situation: "a true (albeit limited) ABI implementation is provided."

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?linux

Re: Project-FiFo cloud orchestration adds FreeBSD support

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Post by Timothycquinn » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 4:35 AM UTC

Thanks for embracing FreeBSD. I too am a fan of Erlang, OTP, Elixir and virtual infrastructure. I hope to be using your stack in the coming months and hopefully can contribute back to your projects in some way.

Re: Project-FiFo cloud orchestration adds FreeBSD support

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Post by Annatar » Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 5:13 AM UTC

ranty wrote: post #21

X86BSD wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does, I was a bit confused at first as well. It should be noted when project fifo says "lx jails" it does not mean LX branded zones from SmartOS. It means FreeBSD's native Linuxulator. Which has been in FreeBSD for.. many many years. It's a similar take on LX zones, but FreeBSD native. It does the same thing. Runs native Linux binaries.

Asking because last time I looked the FBSD stuff wasn't "really there". This would seem to still be the situation: "a true (albeit limited) ABI implementation is provided." https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?linux

As soon as you see “syscall translation”, those are the magic words and they mean that the support is pretty complete. Sure there might be edge cases but if glibc can make a Linux syscall and get good data back, that’s it.