Re: Mac OS X Jails
Re: Mac OS X Jails
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X Jails
- From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:39:50 -0400
On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Eli Bach wrote:
On Jul 30, 2009, at 3:39 PM, email@hidden wrote:
For now I think its best that I setup a FreeBSD server with the
appropriate jailed environments and connect to it to get work done.
Another solution that MAY work, would be to use the free VirtualBox
software. I'm not sure if it lets you run multiple vm's at a time,
but even if not, you could run just one instance of Linux/somebsd
with your Jail support...
Sun's VirtualBox allows you to run as many VMs at the same time as
your hw can stand. I currently use a MacMini to set up and run
multiple RHEL and Solaris instances which I then test together and
deploy on real hw.
In addition to Sun's xVM VirtualBox there's also Sun's xVM Server for
bare hardware virtualization, Sun xVM Ops Center tools for management
of multiple VMs and Sun technologies for management of clouds of
servers (which may or may not be further virtualized.) These do not
necessarily imply using Solaris, but work with a wide array of OSen.
However these are all much heavier weight solutions than things like
Solaris Zones or even LDOMs. If that's what you want, then use
Solaris. It's robust, mature, enterprise class and targeted quite
differently than Mac OS X and OS X Server.
However none of this seems to be what the OP is describing in his needs.
On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Juan Madrigal wrote:
I'm talking about running for example apache PHP, Perl in its own
jailed environment so they think they are in their on box.
Jails duplicate the root or specified directory structure and
isolates whatever is running in it from everything else and I can
assign resources to it
[chroot jails] and BSD Jails are not really analogous to Zones however
and your comparisons and interchangabilities of them as being similar
is confusing.
Unless there's another way to replicate this. I'm going to just use
FreeBSD.
Well, as pointed out, TMTOWTDI and you could implement what you're
trying to do, multiple test web servers that can talk to one another
and have their own environments, all on one system, even w/o any
chroots, BSD Jails or Zones. And you can implement chroot jails in OS X.
But as pointed out, use what you know. Mac OS X was never designed to
do everything, nor should it be.
-d
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