This weekend I made some progress in the linuxulator:
- I MFCed the reporting of some linux-syscalls to 9‑stable and 8‑stable.
- I updated my linuxulator-dtrace patch to a recent ‑current. I already compiled it on i386 and arundel@ has it compiled on amd64. I counted more than 500 new DTrace probes. Now that DTrace rescans for SDT probes when a kernel module is loaded, there is no kernel panic anymore when the linux module is loaded after the DTrace modules and you want to use DTrace. I try to commit this at a morning of a day where I can fix things during the day in case some problems show up which I did not notice during my testing.
- I created a PR for portmgr@ to repocopy a new linux_base port.
- I set the expiration date of linux_base-fc4 (only used by 7.x and upstream way past its EoL) and all dependent ports. It is set to the EoL of the last 7.x release, which can not use a later linux_base port. I also added a comment which explains that the date is the EoL of the last 7.x release.
Has anything been done toward Linuxulator amd64 support?
I did nothing in this regard. And I am not aware of someone working on this ATM.
Do you know the current state of a _x64 linuxulator even if no one is working on it?
There were patches from Chagin Dmitry from several years ago but they never made it in I guess.
64 bit support is something that I’m very much interested in and would consider paying or donating to help prioritize it.
http://markmail.org/message/6ayhnzrx5nvxf3ry#query:+page:1+mid:6ayhnzrx5nvxf3ry+state:results
No, I do not know the status of the 64bit version of the linuxulator. There shouldn’t be that much changes since then in the linuxulator, so anyone with interest to continue his work, wouldn’t need to start from scratch, I think.