> which would allow support for other operating systems besides FreeBSD in a container on a FreeBSD host
Seemless integration with Bhyve so you could run linux-based containers could be a really killer feature IMHO!
Robust but not perfect, would you run MicrosoftSQL(the Windows version) on Linux with WINE?
However you still can try it with a LinuxJail, and yes the linux layer is pretty robust.
First of all, only the Linux containers are supported for SQL Server, using Windows containers has been deprecated, and no longer documented
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/quickstart-insta...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/database-...
Secondly, the way SQL Server has been ported to Linux, is based on the pico processes technology, aka library OS, which is kind of how WINE works,
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2016/12/16/s...
Yes, I know (that's why I wrote "the Windows version"), but would you put it into production with your own WINE/Proton package?
>Secondly, the way SQL Server has been ported to Linux, is based on the pico processes technology, aka library OS, which is kind of how WINE works,
Yes, again, I know, and I think you know what I mean by my example, I had no other example of a major Microsoft dedicated application that came to mind. ;)
I've been running on freebsd a lot of Linux binaries of closed source software 20 years ago and it always worked flawlessly for me. Even desktop stuff like Opera (yes, the one with adds in main window). At the time Wine could run some more trivial programs sometimes, and usually crashed anyway. Wine improved a lot but IMHO it's still unfair to compare those.
I am also curious if we can use these smaller OCI images as normal thin jails, It seems like it from first glance.