| ▲ | Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming(gyptazy.com) |
| 63 points by JohnDohnBohn 5 hours ago | 15 comments |
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| ▲ | als0 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Also related is Propolis from Oxide who worked on live migration with Bhyve https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis |
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| ▲ | e12e an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anyone heard anything from dragonflyBSD lately? This sounds like something that might go well with HammerFS? |
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| ▲ | adrian_b an hour ago | parent [-] | | I am using FreeBSD, not DragonflyBSD, but I happen to be on a DragonflyBSD developer mailing list, which is normally low traffic, except that I have noticed recently a lot of messages with various patches, mentioning both bug fixes and newly implemented features. So the project is alive and it seems more active than previously. |
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| ▲ | JohnDohnBohn 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Looks like this could really become a game changer for the FreeBSD folks using bhyve. The author often complained about this missing feature and he was also contributing to the Sylve project. Looks like he's crafting something. |
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| ▲ | hnlmorg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What’s FreeBSDs story like for Docker these days? I love FreeBSD. But I reluctantly had to migrate one of my home servers to Ubuntu Server because I needed Docker support as well as ZFS. Ubuntu Server, compared to FreeBSD, is a complete clusterfuck of an OS. And I regret the effort I spent migrating. |
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| ▲ | warpflyght an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | There's experimental support for Podman and OCI containers on FreeBSD 14.3 and later, with some additional system configuration required [0], [1]. I've been playing with it off and on with FreeBSD 15.0 and 15.1, but I'm not using it for anything I depend on. [0]: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/containers/ [1]: https://podman.io/docs/installation#installing-on-freebsd | | | |
| ▲ | soupbowl 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There is also this which was not mentioned by other commenters. https://daemonless.io/ | | | |
| ▲ | johng 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I used to use Ubuntu a lot about 7 years ago. I saw the writing on the wall. Once they started forcing snap down people’s throats, especially. I’ve been on Debian ever since and have been very happy. I also have run many other OS’s and I feel that Debian is still a good blend of polished and still friendly to the hacker. | | |
| ▲ | hnlmorg an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yeah Debian is nice. But at the time of switching, only Ubuntu offered ZFS precompiled in their official repos. I did, for a period, run some other distro with DKMS but that was a massive pain to keep up-to-date due to ZoL’s piss poor documentation and messy build tools. This was quite a few years ago though. Long before even FreeBSD synced with ZoL for OpenZFS. So the problems I encountered have likely matured tenfold since. But if I’m going to the hassle of installing a new OS then I might as well install FreeBSD again because I just prefer it to Linux (nothing against Linux in general, my laptops and PCs all run Arch and I’ve made a career from supporting a variety Linux platforms) |
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| ▲ | TacticalCoder an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > What’s FreeBSDs story like for Docker these days? My current setup for Docker (Podman really in my case): Proxmox -> Linux VMs -> Podman containers inside Linux VMs
My plan: FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor -> Linux VMs -> Podman containers inside Linux VMs
So basically just ditching Proxmox for FreeBSD/bhyve. Then at long last I'll be, again, systemd-free. | | |
| ▲ | hnlmorg 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I did consider the bhyve approach myself, before I made the switch. But it was still pretty experimental at the time (iirc) and wanted something reliable otherwise I’d have a wife and two kids moaning at me that their stuff isn’t working haha! But maybe you’re right that it’s worth reconsidering now. |
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| ▲ | jbird99 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice! Can we have high availability / clustering for jails next? |
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| ▲ | bashhq_r 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| so bhyve getting live migration finally means sylve might actually be usable for production clusters, been waiting on this. |
