Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container

Today – as my son requested – we will talk about Minecraft server … inside FreeBSD Jails container. This is kinda like Docker/Podman thing on Linux – but secure instead. Prepare First we will populate /jail path and also fetch needed FreeBSD Base System version. As for today – we will use 14.2-RELEASE version of FreeBSD UNIX. host # mkdir -p /jail/minecraft /jail/BASE host # VER=$( freebsd-version | awk -F '-' '{print $1 "-" $2}' ) host # fetch -o /jail/BASE/${VER}-base.txz https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/14.2-RELEASE/base.txz Next we will create our dedicated Minecraft FreeBSD Jail and populate it with its own Base System contents. We will also copy /var/run/dmesg.boot as Minecraft server looks for it. host # tar -C /jail/minecraft --unlink -xvf /jail/BASE/14.2-RELEASE-base.txz host # cp /var/run/dmesg.boot /jail/minecraft/var/run/ Create Now we will setup base FreeBSD Jails configuration. These will be the default for all other Jails unless we redefine them. h ... Read full article.