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dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: @[email protected] · 2026-08-08 · 15:52 UTC

#FreeBSD #virtio #vsock a couple of months ago I worked on hooking https://github.com/apple/container up so it could run FreeBSD which is obviously far more useful to my community.

This was a relatively trivial exercise involving adding an additional tty and abusing it with a JSON line protocol to exchange messages with a crappy little daemon.

That worked enough, and was enough to nerd snipe much smarter people than me to look at doing it properly, using the VSOCK API.

Here’s a nice article on doing that for #linux with go - https://mdlayher.com/blog/linux-vm-sockets-in-go/

Keep an eye out on CURRENT as other parts of this land for FreeBSD:

⁃ Danilo‘s original work https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/vsock/
⁃ Mina‘s work which I only just discovered https://codeberg.org/meena/vsock-tests & https://codeberg.org/meena/freebsd-src/src/branch/vsock
⁃ Faraz‘s recent additions https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2319 & https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2322

#freebsd #virtio #vsock #linux

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-11-28 · 10:20 UTC

🎩 Ah, yes, because who wouldn't want to squeeze out every ounce of joy from their life by diving into the thrillingly #mundane world of #vsock communication? 💤 Nothing screams #excitement like bypassing #TCP/IP stacks for lightning-fast messages between VMs that no one but the author seems to care about. 🙄
https://popovicu.com/posts/how-to-use-linux-vsock-for-fast-vm-communication/ #communication #bypass #VM #messaging #tech #HackerNews #ngated