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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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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 -
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/ -
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/ -
Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
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From the "That only took 36 years" department:
With #FreeBSD jail, #OpenZFS, 'makefs -t zfs', root on p9fs, packaged base, and #bhyve/ARM64 in place, let's pull them all together:
https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd#imagine-and-propagate-scenarios
That is, generate a 15.0 installer image, push that hardware, push that further to VMs, and then further to STABLE and CURRENT boot environments.
All updatable with pkg(8)
This may contain bugs, but it's forcing me to exercise it.
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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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Nice, someone has written an updated #ZFS management module for #Webmin for #FreeBSD which really looks helpful. Its not only offering #ZFS managment, there is also #Samba, #PF #NFS and various other types configuration like #ACL management included, too. Wow!
With this, #Webmin is nearly feature complete. I'm only missing #Bastille or #Bhyve modules.
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Nice, someone has written an updated #ZFS management module for #Webmin for #FreeBSD which really looks helpful. Its not only offering #ZFS managment, there is also #Samba, #PF #NFS and various other types configuration like #ACL management included, too. Wow!
With this, #Webmin is nearly feature complete. I'm only missing #Bastille or #Bhyve modules.
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Nice, someone has written an updated #ZFS management module for #Webmin for #FreeBSD which really looks helpful. Its not only offering #ZFS managment, there is also #Samba, #PF #NFS and various other types configuration like #ACL management included, too. Wow!
With this, #Webmin is nearly feature complete. I'm only missing #Bastille or #Bhyve modules.
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Nice, someone has written an updated #ZFS management module for #Webmin for #FreeBSD which really looks helpful. Its not only offering #ZFS managment, there is also #Samba, #PF #NFS and various other types configuration like #ACL management included, too. Wow!
With this, #Webmin is nearly feature complete. I'm only missing #Bastille or #Bhyve modules.
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I've got a Lenovo M93p Tiny with 16GB RAM and a Haswell Xeon. It's a great little unit that I used to use as my Haiku build box.
I'm thinking about using it as a #Forgejo (and maybe eventually #Codeberg) Actions runner, with a handful of lightweight VMs (Alpine, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku), each using no more than a gig or two of memory.
Does anyone have any tips on doing this? I'm guessing #Proxmox would be a good start, but I wonder if #FreeBSD with #bhyve and #BastilleBSD might also do a good job.
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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/
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The FreeBSD 2025 Q4 report details Rust in the kernel, OSV migration, reproducible builds, Wi-Fi 6 drivers, and major Bhyve improvements.
Read highlights here: https://ostechnix.com/freebsd-2025-status-report-rust-osv-bhyve/
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Started to touch FreeBSD jail and Bhyve VMs, using them for some programming project. Damn, if only I have such unlimited power near 15 years ago, when I was in university!
Need to have a building environment with some libraries for FastCGI and PostgreSQL installed? No problem, write a Bastillefile which enables sshd and mounts my catalog with projects inside the jail via the nullfs magic. Then create thin jail, apply this template to it and boom — I have a ready development environment with ssh access and all necessary stuff. Just connect to it and build the program, all necessary sources are already here.
Need to test program on the NetBSD? No problem — just create Bhyve VM with preinstalled netbsd template, then install OS with comp set and setup some services: Nginx, PostgreSQL, spawn-fcgi, etc… Then type C-x d /ssh:[email protected]:~ in the Emacs, copy sources via Dired and I can test my program on the environment, as close as possible to the my home server.
All things looks so integrated in the OS and console software are so good, that it is incomparable with my Docker trips at work :drgn_aww: When programming become fun again :drgn_hyper:
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On Thursday, @gyptazy provided a talk about #BoxyBSD at the "Virtualization Gathering" at @credativde.
@gyptazy provided some more information about the BoxyBSD project, but also about the history and infrastructure including the switches of #FreeBSD #Jails, #bhyve and #Proxmox (#kvm). Afterwards, additional information about the #Sylve project were shared and why this is so important and interesting and could make BoxyBSD return to bhyve based #virtualization.
Slides: https://cdn.gyptazy.com/talks/BoxyBSD_Virtualization_Hypervisor_bhyve_Proxmox_credativ_gyptazy.pdf
Recording: https://peertube.gyptazy.com/w/2HtUv9HFBNEU4sEw52bD8H -
@meka @stefano
Oh here is some conversation from last year. That talks about needed GICv2 vs GICv3. But doesn't come to a conclusion about possibilities on the RPI5.https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/2024-May/003962.html
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My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!
The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.
Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.
So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.
I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/
Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!
#SysAdmin #IT #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #Community #OpenSource #OSS #illumos #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #ZFS #bhyve #kvm #Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #ITNotes
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Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users! 🥳
While we still have a plenty of free resources, we might switch from an open registration model to a recommendation / mentor model where already present users can invite new users.
This is not yet fix but a possibility to avoid misusage and abuse where our primary goal is still to provide resources for people interested into BSD based systems. Maybe also closer integrations with BSD communities like the BSD Cafe (@stefano) could be an approach.
#freevps #free #education #ipv6 #hosting #bhyve #proxmox #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd @gyptazy
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A fabulous amount of source notes pop up
{quote
scsi_all.h started out life as a work by Julian Elischer to add SCSI
support to CMU Mach 2.5. It was 373 lines. Julian ported this to 386BSD,
included in the 386BSD patch kit and incorported into FreeBSD at its
creation. Justin used this file when writing CAM, and imported it with
the initial CAM import, but only 30% (100 lines) of the original
remained. Justin moved from bitfields to bytes in structures, dropped
the complex unions, and renamed many structures to have their length
appended. Only about 30 structure names and about 40 #defines remained
from the original. The define names were taken directly from the SCSI
standard with spaces replaced by '_', so had no creativity. Apart from
the license comment, there were no comments retained (all the comments
in the CAM import were written by Justin and Ken). Even at that time,
Justin and Ken could have put their copyrights and names and moved to an
acknowledgement of Julian.In the almost 30 years since that original import, this file has grown
to 4500 lines. Kenneth Merry, Alexander Motin and Justin Gibbs write
85% of the file's lines, if mechanical commits are omitted. Other
contributors contributed less than %5 each of the file.Replace the original license (which lacked a copyright even and has been
criticized as ambiguous) with FreeBSD's standard 2-clause license. Add
copyrights for Justin, Ken and Alexander, with the date ranges they
contributed to the file. Add a note about the origin of the file to
acknowledge Julian's original work upon which all this was built, though
it's become a ship of Theseus in the mean time, built and rebuild many
times.On an absolute scale, there's less than 1% of the current file with
lines from the original, and those are named after the names in the SCSI
standards and likely wouldn't qualify for copyright protection.Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: mav, ken
Differential Revision: reviews.freebsd.org/D49016End Quote}
^ZHow wonderful to have learned this now
#bash #csh #ksh #sh #freeBSD #SCSI #bhyve #jails #ZFS #programming #POSIX
https://codeberg.org/FreeBSD/freebsd-src/commit/1016b3c344350fa5968f16852e5e4e388c51d817
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I need opinions for running helloSystem via bhyve. It's kinda cool to run Aqua UI with FreeBSD as the core.
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Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟯 - 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗩𝗠𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 [UPDATE 3 - Show VMs Sizes] to 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 [FreeBSD Bhyve Companion Tools] article.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/freebsd-bhyve-companion-tools/
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The #BoxyBSD project is taking a pause from provisioning completely free #vps instances / #vserver. For further questions, reach out to @gyptazy or in our Matrix chat.
After publishing the new self-service portal and making it easier to use and get a free VPS instance, we got a lot more new users who requested an instance than usual. We’re not out of resources but we want to provide a great and reliable service and have a buffer for upcoming things.
We’re already restocking the resources and adding new nodes to the project but temporary stop provisioning new instances. In the meantime, we will provide new services that will make the overall experience for users much better and easier.
We already started this with the new #NAT64 gateways and the new free #loadbalancing service that allows you to serve your website also on #IPv4, even your box is #IPv6 only.
We’re addicted to the #BSD community and hope to provide your quickly more #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD and all the other bsd based systems again. In the meantime - have fun and #RUNBSD
#free #hosting #bhyve #zfs #firewall #networking #community #opensource #fediverse #services
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A question/issue that puzzles me for a few weeks or so, any guidance would be appreciated
I have server on #freeBSD running 14.1-RELEASE-p3 now for months, #ZFS filessystem, 5 jails and 3 VMs with #Bhyve
Running very stable until…
I installed #Ser2net to broadcast my energy metering data from USB device sending every few seconds a bulk of data. This data is used via #Socat on the jails and VM for #MQTT and database and graph purposes.
The server freezes more or less and reacts slow via SSH, reboot helps. But even then the issue happens very quickly again, sometime not.
Mind boggling to me, no log messages which make sense.
For the test I moved the services to another server with only one data consuming VM.
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To those who believe #Firecracker is a good idea for running #containers in another protective layer, should just migrate to #QEMU #microvms on #SmartOS, which will protect the #VM within a container.
Hey @[email protected], when will #bhyve support microvms (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/microvm.html) ? I am curious to see if @[email protected] 's #FreeBSD kernel work allowing it to boot in ~20ms, works over there, and gets carried over into #OmniOS. -
The recording of the July 18th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed moving from AWS/GCP to a private cloud, #PiKVM, upcoming AMD IOMMU fixes, virtio-console, virtio-vsock, #NoVNC, libarchive, system-wide management APIs, Netgraph queue length, #VxLAN over WireGuard and IPsec, a new-to-FreeBSD story, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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July 2024 Enterprise Working Group Meeting - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQFOjoMe9zk&ab_channel=FreeBSD
#FreeBSD #EnterpriseWorkingGroup #BSD #FreeBSDFoundation #OCIRuntime #Bhyve #AI #Samba #dotNET -
The recording of the July 11th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the newly-posted @EuroBSDCon schedule, the weekly #FreeBSD snapshots that might include 9pfs improvements, changes to the FreeBSD release schedule, the urgent need for live migration on FreeBSD, the #TrueNAS 13.3 VNC issue and its causes, WebVNC/NoVNC in general, the #Netgraph "retry" issue, bhyve "quiz" user process functionality, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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The recording of the July 11th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the newly-posted @EuroBSDCon schedule, the weekly #FreeBSD snapshots that might include 9pfs improvements, changes to the FreeBSD release schedule, the urgent need for live migration on FreeBSD, the #TrueNAS 13.3 VNC issue and its causes, WebVNC/NoVNC in general, the #Netgraph "retry" issue, bhyve "quiz" user process functionality, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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The recording of the July 11th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the newly-posted @EuroBSDCon schedule, the weekly #FreeBSD snapshots that might include 9pfs improvements, changes to the FreeBSD release schedule, the urgent need for live migration on FreeBSD, the #TrueNAS 13.3 VNC issue and its causes, WebVNC/NoVNC in general, the #Netgraph "retry" issue, bhyve "quiz" user process functionality, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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The recording of the July 11th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the newly-posted @EuroBSDCon schedule, the weekly #FreeBSD snapshots that might include 9pfs improvements, changes to the FreeBSD release schedule, the urgent need for live migration on FreeBSD, the #TrueNAS 13.3 VNC issue and its causes, WebVNC/NoVNC in general, the #Netgraph "retry" issue, bhyve "quiz" user process functionality, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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The recording of the July 11th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the newly-posted @EuroBSDCon schedule, the weekly #FreeBSD snapshots that might include 9pfs improvements, changes to the FreeBSD release schedule, the urgent need for live migration on FreeBSD, the #TrueNAS 13.3 VNC issue and its causes, WebVNC/NoVNC in general, the #Netgraph "retry" issue, bhyve "quiz" user process functionality, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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Unpopular Opinion #(??)
I'd like to see a #Proxmox clone based on #OmniOS, providing the best of both #bhyve and #KVM for #VMs (protected by a zone layer), and zones for all things #BSD and #Linux. BSD support in the zone layer would certainly rocket it up the list and make it the only #OS with support of #virtualizing or straight up #emulating almost any OS (obviously no #Windows support). All that combined with #Kubernetes would make it a swiss-army knife for just about any purpose. -
oh Bhyve, why must you "(exit status 4)" whenever I need you most?! :bsdhead:
catastrophizing? not necessarily, but I did debug it for some hours, sufficiently short of spinning up a gdb host.
alas, latest 14.1-RELEASE and Bhyve is not interested in handling IRQs and passthru for one of the A4000 GPU in my workstation.
https://p.bsd-unix.net/?3f247ee56451edeb#4g15QSXkqfrbTkPd4NdE8hd9iejXZDPryvj45TsuUxL4
#FreeBSD #Bhyve #virtualization #patience #GPUcompute #GPU #HPC #ML #hardware #engineering #syseng
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The recording of the July 4th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the bhyve UART in illumos, bsdinstall #OpenZFS feature flag compatibility option in #bsdinstall, native encryption on a USB drive, Rob N's quiz development VMs, wifibox process supervision and grammar, the need for bhyve live migration, a solution to last week's Jails #NetGraph retry issue, MAC address remapping, #SNMP, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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The recording of the July 4th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the bhyve UART in illumos, bsdinstall #OpenZFS feature flag compatibility option in #bsdinstall, native encryption on a USB drive, Rob N's quiz development VMs, wifibox process supervision and grammar, the need for bhyve live migration, a solution to last week's Jails #NetGraph retry issue, MAC address remapping, #SNMP, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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The recording of the July 4th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the bhyve UART in illumos, bsdinstall #OpenZFS feature flag compatibility option in #bsdinstall, native encryption on a USB drive, Rob N's quiz development VMs, wifibox process supervision and grammar, the need for bhyve live migration, a solution to last week's Jails #NetGraph retry issue, MAC address remapping, #SNMP, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
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The recording of the July 4th, 2024 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the bhyve UART in illumos, bsdinstall #OpenZFS feature flag compatibility option in #bsdinstall, native encryption on a USB drive, Rob N's quiz development VMs, wifibox process supervision and grammar, the need for bhyve live migration, a solution to last week's Jails #NetGraph retry issue, MAC address remapping, #SNMP, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
