@cmeerw said:
BTW, did some test runs yesterday with tilemaker, and got it to convert "South America" to vector tiles (but already using around 11 GB memory during the process and creating a 5 GB output file). Will have to see if it will be able to handle the larger regions from https://download.geofabrik.de/ (Europe is about 10 times the size for the input file) when not keeping everything in RAM.
I actually managed to convert the Europe tiles yesterday, which resulted in an 28 GB .mbtiles file after around 2 hours of working with 100% CPU on all cores. It's not clear how much memory it really needed as it was using lots of memory mapped temporary storage files (so I think any memory statistics are misleading - ps showed around 28 GB of RSS, but htop only claimed around 4 GB of memory used, and for free it was more like 2 GB with most of the memory used as cache).
Anyway, definitely not something you should run on a small shared VPS. Thanks @Hosteroid
Next step would then be a way to actually use the resulting .mbtile files. I think MapLibre should be able to render these (from a tileserver).
@Not_Oles Have you tried integrating bashvm with fossbilling, actually I was interested in this project as I heard it from you so thought about this since proxmox is still in development I thought it would be good if somehow bashvm integration became possible. I tried using and one cloud easily setup shared hosting [I tried it with directadmin panel] but there is no such development in vm provisioning side 😁
Yes, it does seem that integrating bashvm with FOSSBilling might work. I haven't tried it myself yet.
I haven't looked at the current status of the Proxmox integration with FOSSBilling, so I can't say how that is doing.
I never used OneCloud -- is it open source?
One of the developers of FOSSBilling has HostByBelle.com, which sells shared hosting but not VPSes. HostByBelle used to use HestiaCP for the back end, but now they are using DirectAdmin. I think HestiaCP is open source but that DirectAdmin might not be.
I've been hoping that FOSSBilling would include a VM back end one of these days before too long.
Yes, it does seem that integrating bashvm with FOSSBilling might work. I haven't tried it myself yet.
I haven't looked at the current status of the Proxmox integration with FOSSBilling, so I can't say how that is doing.
I never used OneCloud -- is it open source?
One of the developers of FOSSBilling has HostByBelle.com, which sells shared hosting but not VPSes. HostByBelle used to use HestiaCP for the back end, but now they are using DirectAdmin. I think HestiaCP is open source but that DirectAdmin might not be.
I've been hoping that FOSSBilling would include a VM back end one of these days before too long.
Best wishes!
I mistyped my previous message—what I actually meant to say was that I have a DirectAdmin reseller account, so I used that for integration, and the process with FOSSBilling was quite easy.
Regarding Proxmox, it's not recommended yet (and yes, I know that DirectAdmin is not open-source, whereas HestiaCP is).
I also tested BashVM, but since I'm new to these things, I found it a bit difficult to understand. However, I thought that if BashVM had a REST API, it would be much easier to integrate with FOSSBilling.
From what I read in the documentation or the guide in BashVM, the VM provisioning process itself seems simple. If an API were available, integration with FOSSBilling would become even more seamless. 😃
@cainyxues said: From what I read in the documentation or the guide in BashVM, the VM provisioning process itself seems simple. If an API were available, integration with FOSSBilling would become even more seamless. 😃
I'm not an expert on this, but bashvm is installed on our Community Server. We can use grep to see that bashvm.sh uses virsh.
libvirt has an API: https://libvirt.org/api.html ("This page describes the main principles and architecture choices behind the definition of the libvirt API. . . .")
So, my guess is that the bashvm API already has been written?
For myself, as a simple alternative to libvirt, I am satisfied to run Qemu commands directly. For example,
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[ 1.0000040] mainbus0 (root)
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[ 1.0000040] ACPI: RSDT 0x0000000007FE1AC6 000034 (v01 BOCHS BXPC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[ 1.0000040] ACPI: FACP 0x0000000007FE197A 000074 (v01 BOCHS BXPC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[ 1.0000040] ACPI: DSDT 0x0000000007FE0040 00193A (v01 BOCHS BXPC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[ 1.0000040] ACPI: FACS 0x0000000007FE0000 000040
[ 1.0000040] ACPI: APIC 0x0000000007FE19EE 000078 (v01 BOCHS BXPC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[ 1.0000040] ACPI: HPET 0x0000000007FE1A66 000038 (v01 BOCHS BXPC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[ 1.0000040] ACPI: WAET 0x0000000007FE1A9E 000028 (v01 BOCHS BXPC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[ 1.0000040] ACPI: 1 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded
[ 1.0000040] ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 0
[ 1.0000040] cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0
[ 1.0000040] cpu0: QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+, id 0x60fb1
[ 1.0000040] cpu0: node 0, package 0, core 0, smt 0
[ 1.0000040] acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20240827
[ 1.0000040] acpi0: fixed power button present
[ 1.0210804] hpet0 at acpi0: high precision event timer (mem 0xfed00000-0xfed00400)
[ 1.0221652] qemufwcfg0 at acpi0 (FWCF, QEMU0002): io 0x510-0x51b
[ 1.0221652] pckbc1 at acpi0 (KBD, PNP0303) (kbd port): io 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 1.0221652] pckbc2 at acpi0 (MOU, PNP0F13) (aux port): irq 12
[ 1.0221652] fdc0 at acpi0 (FDC0, PNP0700): io 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
[ 1.0221652] lpt0 at acpi0 (LPT1, PNP0400-1): io 0x378-0x37f irq 7
[ 1.0221652] com0 at acpi0 (COM1, PNP0501-1): io 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4
[ 1.0221652] com0: ns16550a, 16-byte FIFO
[ 1.0221652] com0: console
[ 1.0221652] ACPI: Enabled 2 GPEs in block 00 to 0F
[ 1.0221652] pckbd0 at pckbc1 (kbd slot)
[ 1.0221652] pckbc1: using irq 1 for kbd slot
[ 1.0221652] wskbd0 at pckbd0 mux 1
[ 1.0221652] pms0 at pckbc1 (aux slot)
[ 1.0221652] pckbc1: using irq 12 for aux slot
[ 1.0221652] wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
[ 1.0221652] pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
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[ 1.0221652] pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x00)
[ 1.0221652] piixide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1: Intel 82371SB IDE Interface (PIIX3) (rev. 0x00)
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[ 1.0221652] piixpm0: 24-bit timer
[ 1.0221652] piixpm0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 9
[ 1.0221652] iic0 at piixpm0 port 0: I2C bus
[ 1.0221652] vga0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 1234 product 1111 (rev. 0x02)
[ 1.0221652] wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1
[ 1.0221652] drm at vga0 not configured
[ 1.0221652] wm0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: Intel i82540EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet (rev. 0x03)
[ 1.0221652] wm0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 11
[ 1.0221652] wm0: Ethernet address 52:54:00:12:34:56
[ 1.0221652] makphy0 at wm0 phy 1: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 0
[ 1.0221652] makphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX,o
[ 1.0221652] isa0 at pcib0
[ 1.0221652] attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43
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[ 1.0221652] vmt0: failed to open backdoor RPC channel (TCLO protocol)
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Obviously I am oversimplifying because I didn't mention the download integrity checks. Obviously a disk image file could be added and a permanent install could be done. Obviously -enable-kvm could be added. Obviously we could use another OS besides NetBSD, and we could add NAT IPv4 and IPv6 networking. Thanks to Hosteroid for our IPv6/48. But the very simple direct Qemu approach works great for me.
Neighbors also can work directly on the server. It's easy. And fast.
Please check the How to Apply section in the OP if you want to join our free Hosteroid LES Community Server.
root@hlcs:~# date
Sun Mar 2 02:14:54 AM UTC 2025
root@hlcs:~# uptime
02:15:02 up 21 days, 5:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@hlcs:~# cat /etc/debian_version
12.9
root@hlcs:~#
Thanks to @Hosteroid for the kind donation of this fine server! Thanks to @cmeerw for system administration!
Finally found some time to actually make use of the output from tilemaker. Mostly followed the steps from Building OpenStreetMap tiles, except that I am using my own server to serve the tiles from the generated mbtiles files (Europe is a 41 GB .mbtiles file - basically a sqlite3 database containing the vector tiles).
(note that the static page is served on a different VPS, but the map tiles are then served by the LES Community Server, thanks to @Hosteroid and @Not_Oles)
Not sure how stable my tile server is. Fun fact: I actually initially wrote that tile server to run on my smart watch to server large offline map areas on the watch, but never completely finished integrating it (maybe I should do that at some point, now that I know how to generate the tile data - should be able to get the map data for a complete country onto the watch that way).
Noticed https://lobste.rs/s/jaxxly/you_might_want_stop_running_atop (and atop is installed on this server) - there is not much information, but maybe worth being cautious and uninstalling atop (after all it's running in the background as root)?
Edit: I have removed atop from the server for now...
Noticed https://lobste.rs/s/jaxxly/you_might_want_stop_running_atop (and atop is installed on this server) - there is not much information, but maybe worth being cautious and uninstalling atop (after all it's running in the background as root)?
I indeed did notice the headline at lobste.rs, but completely missed that the underlying info was based on a post from rachelbythebay.
Edit: I have removed atop from the server for now...
Please check this thread's OP, especially the How to Apply section. Please consider running something on our Community Server.
Originally I had asked for our server to be configured with Debian 12 because I thought that Debian 12 might be the most acceptable OS for the largest portion of LESbians. But there has been less uptake than I expected.
Recently, because there has been less uptake, the idea crossed my mind to ask @cmeerw if he might want to upgrade the Community Server OS to NetBSD. Or something else:
Noticed https://lobste.rs/s/jaxxly/you_might_want_stop_running_atop (and atop is installed on this server) - there is not much information, but maybe worth being cautious and uninstalling atop (after all it's running in the background as root)?
Edit: I have removed atop from the server for now...
When I installed bashvm I wasn't sure where to put it. I wanted everybody to be able to read it, but I didn't want to change the root $PATH or the user $PATH.
What I did was put bashvm in /usr/local.
root@hlcs:~/.ssh# cd /usr/local
root@hlcs:/usr/local# ls
bashvm bin etc games include lib man plan9 sbin share src
root@hlcs:/usr/local# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/plan9/bin
root@hlcs:/usr/local# cd bashvm
root@hlcs:/usr/local/bashvm# ls
arm bashvm-dhcpv6-network-auto.sh bashvm.sh
bashvm-add-port-forwarding.sh bashvm-dhcpv6-network-manual.sh bashvm-show-port-forwarding.sh
bashvm-create-auto-vm.sh bashvm-installer.sh LICENSE
bashvm-create-vm.sh bashvm-monitor.sh README.md
bashvm-delete-auto-vm.sh bashvm-remove-port-forwarding.sh
root@hlcs:/usr/local/bashvm#
Since everybody has root, maybe it might be okay to add bashvm to the $PATH?
root@hlcs:~# cp -p .bashrc .bashrc~
root@hlcs:~# ed .bashrc # This is GNU ed. Maybe I should use `9 ed`. /s
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PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bashvm export PATH
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root@hlcs:~# tail -n 5 .bashrc
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin export PATH
MANPATH=:/usr/pkg/man export MANPATH
PLAN9=/usr/local/plan9 export PLAN9
PATH=$PATH:$PLAN9/bin export PATH
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bashvm export PATH
root@hlcs:~# logout
Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed.
chronos@penguin:~/servers/hosteroid$ `head -n 1 login` # In bash, I type this as Ctrl-r ` /s
Linux hlcs.metalvps.com 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.119-1 (2024-11-22) x86_64
[ . . . ]
Last login: Fri Jan 10 23:35:26 2025 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
root@hlcs:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/plan9/bin:/usr/local/bashvm
root@hlcs:~#
I never intended for bashvm to be ran like this so im curious about the results lol
Hi @babywhale! I don't believe anyone has as yet tried making a VM with bashvm. Bashvm might need to be updated, as it's been a little while since the install. Do you want to come aboard and try making a VM? Or do you want me to try it? Whatever you prefer is fine with me, as long as it's also okay with @cmeerw.
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @babywhale! I don't believe anyone has as yet tried making a VM with bashvm. Bashvm might need to be updated, as it's been a little while since the install. Do you want to come aboard and try making a VM? Or do you want me to try it? Whatever you prefer is fine with me, as long as it's also okay with @cmeerw.
yeah for sure i can come aboard to update it and for testing
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @babywhale! I don't believe anyone has as yet tried making a VM with bashvm. Bashvm might need to be updated, as it's been a little while since the install. Do you want to come aboard and try making a VM? Or do you want me to try it? Whatever you prefer is fine with me, as long as it's also okay with @cmeerw.
yeah for sure i can come aboard to update it and for testing
@cmeerw Okay with you? I'm presuming you already know @babywhale as a dedicated member of the FreeVPS.org volunteer staff and also as the author of bashvm. If yes, maybe you could please just go ahead and make a sudo account for @babywhale? Or just let me know, and I will make the sudo account for him.
For completeness, if it's not okay with you . . . welp, he doesn't get in, I guess. /s
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @babywhale! I don't believe anyone has as yet tried making a VM with bashvm. Bashvm might need to be updated, as it's been a little while since the install. Do you want to come aboard and try making a VM? Or do you want me to try it? Whatever you prefer is fine with me, as long as it's also okay with @cmeerw.
yeah for sure i can come aboard to update it and for testing
@cmeerw Okay with you? I'm presuming you already know @babywhale as a dedicated member of the FreeVPS.org volunteer staff and also as the author of bashvm. If yes, maybe you could please just go ahead and make a sudo account for @babywhale? Or just let me know, and I will make the sudo account for him.
For completeness, if it's not okay with you . . . welp, he doesn't get in, I guess. /s
Okay so bashvm is now up to date on the server! but i found one bug that iv never seen before
When running the show all vm's i got an error "setlocale: No such file or directory"
To fix it i added these 2 lines to /etc/environment
LANG=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_ALL=“en_US.UTF-8”
After that i ran this command to update the environment
source /etc/environment
Now i don't get that error when viewing all vm's in bashvm. I will need to add this fix into bashvm somehow but for now everything should be good if i see any other errors i'll keep note so then i can update bashvm to fix these errors ( possibly in the install script )
FWIW, I seem to remember running show all VMs before you came aboard, and I didn't get the locale error. Instead, I saw an empty list, by which I mean the usual looking output of show all vms but with no vms listed.
@babywhale Thanks for updating and checking! Congrats on the success of your BashVM!
Thanks to @cmeerw for excellent sysadmin work and also to @Hosteroid for our fine Community Server!
If anyone else wants on, please read the How to Apply section of the OP, and please get in touch.
@Not_Oles said: FWIW, I seem to remember running show all VMs before you came aboard, and I didn't get the locale error.
ssh will most likely have set those LC_* environment variables from what you have on your local machine (that's why I had added a few locales back in December)
When I log to hlcs as root in via ssh and run env, I can see LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8.
FWIW, on my local machine, LC_ALL isn't set, but I do have LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 also is set on hlcs.
I haven't yet made a user account for myself on hlcs. The idea is that hlcs is supposed to be for other LESbians.
Off topic, maybe. There was a short time, years ago, when I used to use the C locale. There was something that didn't work right otherwise, but, haha, I don't remember what that old problem was. I wonder whether, nowadays, I should be using C.utf-8.
@Not_Oles said: FWIW, I seem to remember running show all VMs before you came aboard, and I didn't get the locale error.
ssh will most likely have set those LC_* environment variables from what you have on your local machine (that's why I had added a few locales back in December)
yeah your right that its based off of the local account which i was using the root account, just tried with a new user account i created 'babywhale' and no errors were displayed. Maybe you guys didn't notice it since the script was still working regardless.
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I actually managed to convert the Europe tiles yesterday, which resulted in an 28 GB .mbtiles file after around 2 hours of working with 100% CPU on all cores. It's not clear how much memory it really needed as it was using lots of memory mapped temporary storage files (so I think any memory statistics are misleading -
psshowed around 28 GB of RSS, buthtoponly claimed around 4 GB of memory used, and forfreeit was more like 2 GB with most of the memory used as cache).Anyway, definitely not something you should run on a small shared VPS. Thanks @Hosteroid
Next step would then be a way to actually use the resulting .mbtile files. I think MapLibre should be able to render these (from a tileserver).
Thanks @cmeerw!
Much appreciated! 
Thanks @Hosteroid!
Much appreciation to you too! 
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hi Everyone!
We've got this nice, free Hosteroid LES Community Server waiting for some of us to use it!
If you are interested, please take a careful look at the How to Apply section in the OP. Thanks!
Special thanks to @cmeerw for sysadmin help!
Special thanks to @Hosteroid for providing this nice, free server for LES!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles Have you tried integrating bashvm with fossbilling, actually I was interested in this project as I heard it from you so thought about this since proxmox is still in development I thought it would be good if somehow bashvm integration became possible. I tried using and one cloud easily setup shared hosting [I tried it with directadmin panel] but there is no such development in vm provisioning side 😁
Hi @cainyxues!
Yes, it does seem that integrating bashvm with FOSSBilling might work. I haven't tried it myself yet.
I haven't looked at the current status of the Proxmox integration with FOSSBilling, so I can't say how that is doing.
I never used OneCloud -- is it open source?
One of the developers of FOSSBilling has HostByBelle.com, which sells shared hosting but not VPSes. HostByBelle used to use HestiaCP for the back end, but now they are using DirectAdmin. I think HestiaCP is open source but that DirectAdmin might not be.
I've been hoping that FOSSBilling would include a VM back end one of these days before too long.
Best wishes!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I mistyped my previous message—what I actually meant to say was that I have a DirectAdmin reseller account, so I used that for integration, and the process with FOSSBilling was quite easy.
Regarding Proxmox, it's not recommended yet (and yes, I know that DirectAdmin is not open-source, whereas HestiaCP is).
I also tested BashVM, but since I'm new to these things, I found it a bit difficult to understand. However, I thought that if BashVM had a REST API, it would be much easier to integrate with FOSSBilling.
From what I read in the documentation or the guide in BashVM, the VM provisioning process itself seems simple. If an API were available, integration with FOSSBilling would become even more seamless. 😃
Current Progress on Proxmox : https://github.com/FOSSBilling/Proxmox
I'm not an expert on this, but bashvm is installed on our Community Server. We can use grep to see that bashvm.sh uses virsh.
virsh is part of libvirt: https://www.libvirt.org/manpages/virsh.html
libvirt has an API: https://libvirt.org/api.html ("This page describes the main principles and architecture choices behind the definition of the libvirt API. . . .")
So, my guess is that the bashvm API already has been written?
For myself, as a simple alternative to libvirt, I am satisfied to run Qemu commands directly. For example,
wget https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/amd64/installation/cdrom/boot-com.isoplus
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom boot-com.iso -nographicgets me
Obviously I am oversimplifying because I didn't mention the download integrity checks.
Obviously a disk image file could be added and a permanent install could be done. Obviously
-enable-kvmcould be added. Obviously we could use another OS besides NetBSD, and we could add NAT IPv4 and IPv6 networking. Thanks to Hosteroid for our IPv6/48. But the very simple direct Qemu approach works great for me.Neighbors also can work directly on the server. It's easy. And fast.
Please check the How to Apply section in the OP if you want to join our free Hosteroid LES Community Server.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Intresting, will look into this 😁. Thanks for the detailed answer ♥️
Thanks @cmeerw!
Thanks @Hosteroid!
Anybody want to use this fine server? If yes, please review How to Apply in the OP. Thanks! Best wishes! ❤️
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
It's waiting for you!
Thanks to @Hosteroid for the kind donation of this fine server!
Thanks to @cmeerw for system administration! 
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Finally found some time to actually make use of the output from tilemaker. Mostly followed the steps from Building OpenStreetMap tiles, except that I am using my own server to serve the tiles from the generated mbtiles files (Europe is a 41 GB .mbtiles file - basically a sqlite3 database containing the vector tiles).
Here it is: http://map-test.cmeerw.net/
(note that the static page is served on a different VPS, but the map tiles are then served by the LES Community Server, thanks to @Hosteroid and @Not_Oles)
Not sure how stable my tile server is. Fun fact: I actually initially wrote that tile server to run on my smart watch to server large offline map areas on the watch, but never completely finished integrating it (maybe I should do that at some point, now that I know how to generate the tile data - should be able to get the map data for a complete country onto the watch that way).
Applied the Debian 12.10 updates:
I noticed that the system clock was quite a bit off, so I installed
systemd-timesyncdto keep it in sync via NTP now.Thanks! Much appreciated! 🌹
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles are you using atop?
Noticed https://lobste.rs/s/jaxxly/you_might_want_stop_running_atop (and atop is installed on this server) - there is not much information, but maybe worth being cautious and uninstalling atop (after all it's running in the background as root)?
Edit: I have removed atop from the server for now...
No, not using atop at the moment.
I indeed did notice the headline at lobste.rs, but completely missed that the underlying info was based on a post from rachelbythebay.
Excellent!
Thanks for taking quick action! 
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Friendly greetings!
Please check this thread's OP, especially the How to Apply section. Please consider running something on our Community Server.
Originally I had asked for our server to be configured with Debian 12 because I thought that Debian 12 might be the most acceptable OS for the largest portion of LESbians. But there has been less uptake than I expected.
Recently, because there has been less uptake, the idea crossed my mind to ask @cmeerw if he might want to upgrade the Community Server OS to NetBSD. Or something else:
OpenVMS?
OpenIndiana?
Berkeley Unix 2.9.11?
If you've been waiting to sign up, and you want Debian, please do sign up with alacrity!
Maybe, after you sign up, you could install Alacritty?
Best wishes!
Tom
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Update and discussion at HN:
CVE-2025-31160 Atop 2.11 heap problems
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I never intended for bashvm to be ran like this so im curious about the results lol
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Hi @babywhale! I don't believe anyone has as yet tried making a VM with bashvm. Bashvm might need to be updated, as it's been a little while since the install. Do you want to come aboard and try making a VM? Or do you want me to try it? Whatever you prefer is fine with me, as long as it's also okay with @cmeerw.
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yeah for sure i can come aboard to update it and for testing
heres my ssh pub key
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIOipZ6d2gcB2xUUuuyg0wQ1B26qT4eyMxd6vRi3fbeXX
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@cmeerw Okay with you? I'm presuming you already know @babywhale as a dedicated member of the FreeVPS.org volunteer staff and also as the author of bashvm. If yes, maybe you could please just go ahead and make a sudo account for @babywhale? Or just let me know, and I will make the sudo account for him.
For completeness, if it's not okay with you . . . welp, he doesn't get in, I guess. /s
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Added @babywhale to the root account. Welcome!
Okay so bashvm is now up to date on the server! but i found one bug that iv never seen before
When running the show all vm's i got an error "setlocale: No such file or directory"
To fix it i added these 2 lines to /etc/environment
LANG=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_ALL=“en_US.UTF-8”
After that i ran this command to update the environment
source /etc/environment
Now i don't get that error when viewing all vm's in bashvm. I will need to add this fix into bashvm somehow but for now everything should be good
if i see any other errors i'll keep note so then i can update bashvm to fix these errors ( possibly in the install script )
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FWIW, I seem to remember running show all VMs before you came aboard, and I didn't get the locale error. Instead, I saw an empty list, by which I mean the usual looking output of show all vms but with no vms listed.
@babywhale Thanks for updating and checking!
Congrats on the success of your BashVM! 
Thanks to @cmeerw for excellent sysadmin work
and also to @Hosteroid for our fine Community Server! 
If anyone else wants on, please read the How to Apply section of the OP, and please get in touch.
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ssh will most likely have set those LC_* environment variables from what you have on your local machine (that's why I had added a few locales back in December)
What does/did your environment look like? Maybe the right thing to do would be to generate the locales you are actually using?
@cmeerw @babywhale
I didn't know that ssh sets locales! TIL:
When I log to hlcs as root in via ssh and run
env, I can seeLC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8.FWIW, on my local machine,
LC_ALLisn't set, but I do haveLANG=en_US.UTF-8.LANG=en_US.UTF-8also is set on hlcs.I haven't yet made a user account for myself on hlcs. The idea is that hlcs is supposed to be for other LESbians.
Off topic, maybe. There was a short time, years ago, when I used to use the C locale. There was something that didn't work right otherwise, but, haha, I don't remember what that old problem was. I wonder whether, nowadays, I should be using C.utf-8.
Thanks @cmeerw! Thanks @babywhale! Thanks @Hosteroid!
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yeah your right that its based off of the local account which i was using the root account, just tried with a new user account i created 'babywhale' and no errors were displayed. Maybe you guys didn't notice it since the script was still working regardless.
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