30 Jun
2009
30 Jun
'09
8:28 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:09:30AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
compared to virtualization, including being able to test graphical apps (OpenGL, anyone?) with the very same hardware.
There seems to be some support for OpenGL in VirtualBox these days[1]. I have no experience with it myself though.
That's why I said "very same hardware", because in a chroot there are no additional software layers.
The big limitation with a chroot is of course that the surrounding system puts limits on what you can run in the chroot, though for many uses that doesn't really matter.
Yes, of course, but for cross-compiling you don't really care about that. However if you cared, you could also try FreeBSD jails, but I have never used them. :) -- Felipe.