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Virtualization is a turbulent topic. Enterprises use enterprise systems. What can the small businesses do? Bhyve is a strong system for them.
#virtualization #vm #bhyve #hypervisor #zfs
http://tomsitcafe.com/2026/07/20/the-silent-hypervisor-bhyve/
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Virtualization is a turbulent topic. Enterprises use enterprise systems. What can the small businesses do? Bhyve is a strong system for them.
#virtualization #vm #bhyve #hypervisor #zfs
http://tomsitcafe.com/2026/07/20/the-silent-hypervisor-bhyve/
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New on the blog: my Home Assistant setup on FreeBSD.
Home Assistant OS runs in a bhyve VM, but bhyve has no USB passthrough, so Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with the ConBee II.
Homematic comes in via a CCU3, and three IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use my Nanoleaf Shapes controller as their border router.
Three radio ecosystems, 474 entities, one dashboard.
#FreeBSD #HomeAssistant #bhyve #Zigbee #Matter #Thread #SelfHosting
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New on the blog: my Home Assistant setup on FreeBSD.
Home Assistant OS runs in a bhyve VM, but bhyve has no USB passthrough, so Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with the ConBee II.
Homematic comes in via a CCU3, and three IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use my Nanoleaf Shapes controller as their border router.
Three radio ecosystems, 474 entities, one dashboard.
#FreeBSD #HomeAssistant #bhyve #Zigbee #Matter #Thread #SelfHosting
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The recording of the June 25th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the updated #illumos ‘dladm modify-vnic’ feature, the bhyve balloon driver, the nyetboot hobby firmware, SeaBIOS support, Netgraph, GNU/#Linux vs. #FreeBSD for vendors, VPP, VirtualBox to bhyve migration, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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The recording of the June 25th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the updated #illumos ‘dladm modify-vnic’ feature, the bhyve balloon driver, the nyetboot hobby firmware, SeaBIOS support, Netgraph, GNU/#Linux vs. #FreeBSD for vendors, VPP, VirtualBox to bhyve migration, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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FreeBSD 15 + CDE is probably the closest you can get to sitting in front of a high-end UNIX workstation without owning a time machine.
Running Common Desktop Environment in 2026 feels strangely refreshing. No blur effects, no Electron, no notifications fighting for attention, No ai written code, just Motif, terminals, man pages, and a desktop paradigm that was already mature before I was born.
Current setup: • FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE • CDE • dtwm • bhyve • Motif everywhere
Today’s activity: reading bhyve(4) manuals and pretending I'm a UNIX admin in 1996.
#FreeBSD #BSD #CDE #Unix #Motif #bhyve #OpenSource #UnixPorn #RetroComputing #FOSS
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FreeBSD 15 + CDE is probably the closest you can get to sitting in front of a high-end UNIX workstation without owning a time machine.
Running Common Desktop Environment in 2026 feels strangely refreshing. No blur effects, no Electron, no notifications fighting for attention, No ai written code, just Motif, terminals, man pages, and a desktop paradigm that was already mature before I was born.
Current setup: • FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE • CDE • dtwm • bhyve • Motif everywhere
Today’s activity: reading bhyve(4) manuals and pretending I'm a UNIX admin in 1996.
#FreeBSD #BSD #CDE #Unix #Motif #bhyve #OpenSource #UnixPorn #RetroComputing #FOSS
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FreeBSD 15 + CDE is probably the closest you can get to sitting in front of a high-end UNIX workstation without owning a time machine.
Running Common Desktop Environment in 2026 feels strangely refreshing. No blur effects, no Electron, no notifications fighting for attention, No ai written code, just Motif, terminals, man pages, and a desktop paradigm that was already mature before I was born.
Current setup: • FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE • CDE • dtwm • bhyve • Motif everywhere
Today’s activity: reading bhyve(4) manuals and pretending I'm a UNIX admin in 1996.
#FreeBSD #BSD #CDE #Unix #Motif #bhyve #OpenSource #UnixPorn #RetroComputing #FOSS
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FreeBSD 15 + CDE is probably the closest you can get to sitting in front of a high-end UNIX workstation without owning a time machine.
Running Common Desktop Environment in 2026 feels strangely refreshing. No blur effects, no Electron, no notifications fighting for attention, No ai written code, just Motif, terminals, man pages, and a desktop paradigm that was already mature before I was born.
Current setup: • FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE • CDE • dtwm • bhyve • Motif everywhere
Today’s activity: reading bhyve(4) manuals and pretending I'm a UNIX admin in 1996.
#FreeBSD #BSD #CDE #Unix #Motif #bhyve #OpenSource #UnixPorn #RetroComputing #FOSS
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FreeBSD 15 + CDE is probably the closest you can get to sitting in front of a high-end UNIX workstation without owning a time machine.
Running Common Desktop Environment in 2026 feels strangely refreshing. No blur effects, no Electron, no notifications fighting for attention, No ai written code, just Motif, terminals, man pages, and a desktop paradigm that was already mature before I was born.
Current setup: • FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE • CDE • dtwm • bhyve • Motif everywhere
Today’s activity: reading bhyve(4) manuals and pretending I'm a UNIX admin in 1996.
#FreeBSD #BSD #CDE #Unix #Motif #bhyve #OpenSource #UnixPorn #RetroComputing #FOSS
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I got convinced and setting up a standalone server with Freebsd 15.1 as virtual instance server
Besides the ones I have.Install was a bit chunky because I needed wifi for that moment but the ax201 is well supported once the hotspot was online
This one gets Sylve a jail and bhyve management environment.
Migrating as much as possible from Proxmox, at least thats the plan -
I got convinced and setting up a standalone server with Freebsd 15.1 as virtual instance server
Besides the ones I have.Install was a bit chunky because I needed wifi for that moment but the ax201 is well supported once the hotspot was online
This one gets Sylve a jail and bhyve management environment.
Migrating as much as possible from Proxmox, at least thats the plan -
New 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗸 [Expand GELI Encrypted Bhyve VM ZFS Disk] article on vermaden.wordpress.com.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/expand-geli-encrypted-bhyve-vm-zfs-disk/
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New 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗸 [Expand GELI Encrypted Bhyve VM ZFS Disk] article on vermaden.wordpress.com.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/expand-geli-encrypted-bhyve-vm-zfs-disk/
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New 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗸 [Expand GELI Encrypted Bhyve VM ZFS Disk] article on vermaden.wordpress.com.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/expand-geli-encrypted-bhyve-vm-zfs-disk/
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New 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗸 [Expand GELI Encrypted Bhyve VM ZFS Disk] article on vermaden.wordpress.com.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/expand-geli-encrypted-bhyve-vm-zfs-disk/
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New 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗸 [Expand GELI Encrypted Bhyve VM ZFS Disk] article on vermaden.wordpress.com.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/expand-geli-encrypted-bhyve-vm-zfs-disk/
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I just did a cursed thing.
Running ChimeraLinux Live base image under Sylve in a bhyve VM on FreeBSD that's running inside a VM on a OpenMediaVault (Linux QEMU/KVM) Installation
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I just did a cursed thing.
Running ChimeraLinux Live base image under Sylve in a bhyve VM on FreeBSD that's running inside a VM on a OpenMediaVault (Linux QEMU/KVM) Installation
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AI-powered Reddit search (Answers) improving from one day to the next. Today:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjgr0x/comment/onelt9p/?context=2>
From yesterday's comment:
"… this underscores the value of not trusting the first thing that we read …"
Not exciting, just food for thought.
Certainly not conclusive. I experiment with the feature very rarely … maybe ten times a year.
#AI #FreeBSD #Reddit #bhyve #Proxmox #jails #Docker #Linux #macOS #Windows
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AI-powered Reddit search (Answers) improving from one day to the next. Today:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjgr0x/comment/onelt9p/?context=2>
From yesterday's comment:
"… this underscores the value of not trusting the first thing that we read …"
Not exciting, just food for thought.
Certainly not conclusive. I experiment with the feature very rarely … maybe ten times a year.
#AI #FreeBSD #Reddit #bhyve #Proxmox #jails #Docker #Linux #macOS #Windows
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/116597496244280489
We booted Debian and FreeBSD 15 using QEMU accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time. This is an epic milestone for the FreeBSD community and beyond ! : r/freebsd
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tk0eja/we_booted_debian_and_freebsd_15_using_qemu/> – Mario Zio.
＂Further development is needed...a lot of development...but anyway this is a storic moment....we can use another hypervisor. This time in cooperation with the storic and mature QEMU. FreeBSD is second to none.
This success has been possible thanks to the competence of Abhinav Chavali who started this project for the GSOC 2025 ; thanks bro.
It's built on top of dumrich's work. …＂
#FreeBSD #bhyve #QEMU #Linux #Debian
SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU - FreeBSD Wiki — <https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU>
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/116597496244280489
We booted Debian and FreeBSD 15 using QEMU accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time. This is an epic milestone for the FreeBSD community and beyond ! : r/freebsd
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tk0eja/we_booted_debian_and_freebsd_15_using_qemu/> – Mario Zio.
＂Further development is needed...a lot of development...but anyway this is a storic moment....we can use another hypervisor. This time in cooperation with the storic and mature QEMU. FreeBSD is second to none.
This success has been possible thanks to the competence of Abhinav Chavali who started this project for the GSOC 2025 ; thanks bro.
It's built on top of dumrich's work. …＂
#FreeBSD #bhyve #QEMU #Linux #Debian
SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU - FreeBSD Wiki — <https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU>
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The recording of the May 14th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed upcoming events, #TrueNAS CORE soft landings, Vulcan and CUDA on FreeBSD, #CoreBoot ARM64, OpenBSD VM IPv6 addressing, an open source network switch, EDK II updates, GPU Pass-Through, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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The recording of the May 14th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed upcoming events, #TrueNAS CORE soft landings, Vulcan and CUDA on FreeBSD, #CoreBoot ARM64, OpenBSD VM IPv6 addressing, an open source network switch, EDK II updates, GPU Pass-Through, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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So I'm thinking of upgrading my T630 to #proxmox 9 from 8. But since I don't have much there anyways, this could be a chance to switch to something more interesting, penses-tu pas??
Could go the #BSD way and use #bhyve stuff? Orrr try something really interesting, #SmartOS which gives you bhyve AND #KVM AND #zones ??? Oh I do love a good set of choices that just paralyzes me sometimes :D
Anyone use any of these? Are there terraform / pulumi compatible modules for this stuff?
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So I'm thinking of upgrading my T630 to #proxmox 9 from 8. But since I don't have much there anyways, this could be a chance to switch to something more interesting, penses-tu pas??
Could go the #BSD way and use #bhyve stuff? Orrr try something really interesting, #SmartOS which gives you bhyve AND #KVM AND #zones ??? Oh I do love a good set of choices that just paralyzes me sometimes :D
Anyone use any of these? Are there terraform / pulumi compatible modules for this stuff?
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EDIT: it's not the virtio driver. This VM has 1G ram. If increased to 2G, it will boot. It seems it's the intramfs unable to decompress. And it's strange.
I've just upgraded my Proxmox Backup Server, running inside a bhyve VM on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, and it now kernel panics as soon as it boots.
Setup:
- Host: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- Guest Kernel: Linux 7.0
- NIC: virtio-netWorkarounds tested:
- Removing the network device: boots successfully
- Changing the NIC to e1000: boots successfullyThis seems to point to a virtio-net issue with this kernel under bhyve.
Has anyone else noticed this?
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EDIT: it's not the virtio driver. This VM has 1G ram. If increased to 2G, it will boot. It seems it's the intramfs unable to decompress. And it's strange.
I've just upgraded my Proxmox Backup Server, running inside a bhyve VM on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, and it now kernel panics as soon as it boots.
Setup:
- Host: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- Guest Kernel: Linux 7.0
- NIC: virtio-netWorkarounds tested:
- Removing the network device: boots successfully
- Changing the NIC to e1000: boots successfullyThis seems to point to a virtio-net issue with this kernel under bhyve.
Has anyone else noticed this?
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BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1120
Migrating from VMWare to FreeBSD bhyve
Sarder Kamal
https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Migrating-from-VMWare.html
To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #bhyve #vmware #virtualization -
BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1120
Migrating from VMWare to FreeBSD bhyve
Sarder Kamal
https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Migrating-from-VMWare.html
To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #bhyve #vmware #virtualization -
I sense that #bhyve/#ARM64 will become very interesting in the 25 hours, thanks to John Baldwin doing John Baldwin-y things.
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I sense that #bhyve/#ARM64 will become very interesting in the 25 hours, thanks to John Baldwin doing John Baldwin-y things.
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The recording of the April 23rd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed EDK II issues and maintenance, root-on-p9fs, a TPM issue that is misreported as a Windows instruction emulation issue, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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The recording of the April 23rd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed EDK II issues and maintenance, root-on-p9fs, a TPM issue that is misreported as a Windows instruction emulation issue, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ -
Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ -
The recording of the April 2nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed major #EDK2 updates, the long-awaited Sylve port, a #Sylve forum proposal, migrating from #TrueNAS to Sylve, a bhyve to the rescue story, Sylve Packet Filter integration and networking, Sylve use cases, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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The recording of the April 2nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed major #EDK2 updates, the long-awaited Sylve port, a #Sylve forum proposal, migrating from #TrueNAS to Sylve, a bhyve to the rescue story, Sylve Packet Filter integration and networking, Sylve use cases, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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The recording of the April 2nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed major #EDK2 updates, the long-awaited Sylve port, a #Sylve forum proposal, migrating from #TrueNAS to Sylve, a bhyve to the rescue story, Sylve Packet Filter integration and networking, Sylve use cases, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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The recording of the April 2nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed major #EDK2 updates, the long-awaited Sylve port, a #Sylve forum proposal, migrating from #TrueNAS to Sylve, a bhyve to the rescue story, Sylve Packet Filter integration and networking, Sylve use cases, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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The recording of the April 2nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed major #EDK2 updates, the long-awaited Sylve port, a #Sylve forum proposal, migrating from #TrueNAS to Sylve, a bhyve to the rescue story, Sylve Packet Filter integration and networking, Sylve use cases, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
