After some serious fun with OpenVZ, I've been reading about FreeBSD jails. I really need to read the jail manual.
And a page about BSD jails:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/jail.php,
which links to:
iosn.net/Members/kaeru/.../freebsd-jails, also very good.
OK, trying out the first build. I'm using the shell script example they provide on the man page:
D=/here/is/the/jail cd /usr/src mkdir -p $D make world DESTDIR=$D make distribution DESTDIR=$D mount_devfs devfs $D/dev
Jails are working out very nicely. I'm pleased with the ability to run jailed FreeBSD in a jail because I'm sure as I learn the toolset I'll make some mistakes!
I'm planning to use OpenVZ on linux, and jails on FreeBSD. :-)
UPDATE: The second link referenced above has a great tip for duplicating BSD jails. I'll reproduce it here for convenience:
mkdir /usr/jail/new cd /usr/jail/old tar -cpf - . | tar -C /usr/jail/new -xpf -
Hmmm, just tried to start lighttpd after enabling /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd but I'm getting this error:
2007-08-02 04:28:07: (network.c.159) socket failed: Protocol not supported
Found the answers I was looking for here: lighttpd on freebsd - (network.c.159) socket failed: Protocol not supported
That page is in a foreign language, so in a nutshell it says that you need to comment out ipv6 from /usr/local/etc/lighttpd.conf and specify your ip address instead of using 0.0.0.0. I was unable to use port 80 so instead I used port 8088. I'll try and figure that one out too.