Jails

Renaming a jail FreeBSD jails are a great tool. Whether you are using them to virtualize some of your systems (like I am) or to isolate certain processes, they are flexible enough and reliable enough to use for production. Recently, I had to retire some old jails and add some new jails. Instead of just […]

Problems starting a jail with ezjail Over the weekend I was setting up a few FreeBSD jails to do some regression testing for the Bacula project. I had two already configured and running from my earlier work. My goal was to create a couple more and test multiple versions of databases etc. I found I

ezjail – A jail administration framework I want to set up some jails. They will each be very similar. They will each be used to test a slightly different configuration of Bacula. My tool of choice is ezjail, available in the ports tree. With ezjail, I can: create a jail flavour, upon which the creation

Creating multiple jails Jails are a useful tool for achieving a certain level of virtualization. I have used jails in the past for creating sandboxes for testing of the Bacula project. Today, I will be setting up 7 jails, each for regression tests on different configurations. In the process, I’ll show you some shortcuts that

Jails under FreeBSD 6 This article shows you how I created a jail for under FreeBSD 6. This article is based on a previous article. I have written previously about jails on FreeBSD 4 and on FreeBSD 5 . The goal of this jail is the creation of a test environment for updating the Bacula