Some useful setup instructions in here. NetBSD: Using virtualization: QEMU and NVMM. Didn’t know this existed. (via) Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean. (via) FreeBSD Desktop – Part 26 – Configuration – Conferencing and Meetings. Valuable News – 2021/05/24. HardenedBSD Switching IRC Servers. NYCBUG is doing that too. And other spots. My state …
I am going to upgrade a FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0 with one reboot. This is significantly fewer than the standard upgrade process. The instructions are taken from vermaden’s blog post on Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments. I have seen a couple of references to this post lately and this upgrade was the […]
Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through. NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today. NetBSD 9.2 is out. The state of toolchains in OpenBSD. Building LLVM on OpenBSD/loongson and OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Yeeloong 8101B. FreeBSD Release 13.0 Highlights. NomadBSD 130R-20210508 released. Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs. FreeBSD on …
Today I was updating a FreeBSD server from 12.2 to 13.0 – I was using a new approach for my upgrades. This was my second host to upgrade like this. The first went smoothly. This one, not so much. The problem arises [dan@slocum:~] $ sudo bectl create -r 13 [dan@slocum:~] $ bectl list BE Active […]
Some opinion, some documentation. Running FreeBSD Jails with containerd 1.5. (via) Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy. (via) As Longtime BSD User I Have My Doubts About Our Future. First comment in the source link about not using strengths is true. FreeBSD PKG Base Repository. (via) CGI with Awk on OpenBSD …
Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs! Refurb weekend: Hewlett-Packard 9000/350. HPUX which was BSD, I think? ChiBUG is meeting May 11th, on Zoom. There’ll be a presentation on iked(8). Go, especially if you’ve ever done IPSEC anything. I’ll post a reminder. HardenedBSD April 2021 Status Report. My Infrastructure as of 2020. (OpenBSD) …
The January to March 2021 Status Report is now available with 28 entries.
The January to March 2021 Status Report is now available with 28 entries.
There’s some opinions mixed in this week! NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via) FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via) OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via) Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via) Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via) FVWM 3 and Quest for …
I have found this bizarre situation where a FreeBSD 12.2 snapshot cannot be destroyed. This is the simple example, which works: [dan@pkg01:~] $ sudo zfs snapshot tank_fast/poudriere@snapshot-for-backup [dan@pkg01:~] $ sudo zfs destroy tank_fast/poudriere@snapshot-for-backup [dan@pkg01:~] $ This is the simple example, which fails: [dan@pkg01:~] $ sudo zfs snapshot tank_fast/poudriere@snapshot-for-backup [dan@pkg01:~] $ ls /usr/local/poudriere/.zfs/snapshot/snapshot-for-backup cache data jails […]
BUG meetings seem to be happening again, which is nice. FreeBSD iostat: Understanding the Storage Subsystem and Disk I/O. (via) Port of the week: musickube. Looks … usable?! Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments. No Complexity Allowed, on hello. (via) FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13. Polyglot *BSD, next NYCBSD meeting, 2021/05/05. I’ll post a …
In this post I will be creating a ‘new’ jail which uses vnet. I say ‘new’ because I am actually Converting an iocage jail to a vanilla jail which happens to use vnet. NOTE: I originally failed to get this to work. You can read about it. I’m going to repost this article soon with […]