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OpenBSD automatic installation
- A CFT (call for testing) was posted for OpenBSD’s new automatic installer process
- Using this new system, you can spin up fully-configured OpenBSD installs very quickly
- Allows you to PXE boot the system and load the answer file via HTTP by each machines MAC address, with fallback to a default config file
- It will answer all the questions for you and can put files into place and start services
- Great for large deployments, help test it and report your findings
FreeNAS install guide and blog posts
- A multipart series on YouTube about installing FreeNAS
- In part 1, the guy (who is possibly Dracula, with his very Transylvanian accent..) builds his new file server and shows off the hardware
- In part 2, he shows how to install and configure FreeNAS, uses IPMI, sets up his pools
- He pronounces gigabytes as jiggabytes and it’s hilarious
- We’ve also got an unrelated blog post about a very satisfied FreeNAS user who details his setup
- As well as another blog post from our old pal Devin Teske about his recent foray into the FreeNAS development world
FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 is out
- Another, unexpected RC is out for 10.0
- Includes an ABI change, you must recompile/reinstall all ports/packages if you are upgrading from a previous 10.0-RC
- Minor fixes included, please help test and report any bugs
- You can update via freebsd-update or from source
- Hopefully this will be the last one before 10.0-RELEASE, which has tons of new features we’ll talk about
- It’s been tagged -RELEASE in SVN already too!
OpenBSD 5.5-beta is out
- Theo updated the branch status to 5.5-beta
- A list of changes is available
- Help test and report any bugs you find
- Lots of rapid development with signify (which we mentioned last week), the beta includes some “test keys”
- Does that mean it’ll be part of the final release? We’ll find out in May.. or when we interview Ted (soon)
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Interview – Neel Natu & Peter Grehan – neel@freebsd.org & grehan@freebsd.org
BHyVe – the BSD hypervisor
+ Could you tell us a bit about yourselves and how you first got into BSD?
+ What’s your current roles in the FreeBSD project, and how did you get there?
+ What exactly is bhyve and how did the project get started?
+ What is the current status of bhyve? What guest OSes are supported?
+ What bugs remain when running different guest OSs?
+ How is support for AMD hardware virtualization progressing?
+ Is there any work on supporting older hardware that does not have EPT?
+ What will it take to be able to boot FreeBSD root-on-zfs inside bhyve?
+ Any progress on a ‘vfs hack’ to mount/passthru a file system (zfs dataset?) from the host to the guest, a la Jails?
+ How is the performance? How does the network performance compare to alternatives? How much benchmarking has been done?
+ What features have been added recently? (nmdm etc)
+ When is VGA support planned?
+ When might we see Windows (server) as a guest? What else would be required to make that happen?
+ What features are you planning for the future? How far do you plan to take bhyve (snapshots, live migration etc)
Tutorial
Virtualization with bhyve
News Roundup
Hostname canonicalisation in OpenSSH
- Blog post from our friend Damien Miller
- This new feature allows clients to canonicalize unqualified domain names
- SSH will know if you typed “ssh bsdnow” you meant “ssh bsdnow.tv” with new config options
- This will help clean up some ssh configs, especially if you have many hosts
- Should make it into OpenSSH 6.5, which is “due really soon”
Dragonfly on a Chromebook
- Some work has been done by Matthew Dillon to get DragonflyBSD working on a Google Chromebook
- These couple of posts detail some of the things he’s got working so far
- Changes were needed to the boot process, trackpad and wifi drivers needed updating…
- Also includes a guide written by Dillon on how to get yours working
Spider in a box
- “Spiderinabox” is a new OpenBSD-based project
- Using a combination of OpenBSD, Firefox, XQuartz and VirtualBox, it creates a secure browsing experience for OS X
- Firefox runs encapsulated in OpenBSD and doesn’t have access to OS X in any way
- The developer is looking for testers on other operating systems!
PCBSD weekly digest
- PCBSD 10 has entered into the code freeze phase
- They’re focusing on fixing bugs now, rather than adding new features
- The update system got a lot of improvements
- PBI load times reduced by up to 40%! what!!!
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