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Username: Crab
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> @naguam said:
> Overall you can host most common webservices on NetBSD despites some of its limitations.

What are its main limitations in your opinion?

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> @Not_Oles said:
> What are all you other guys doing on BSD nowadays?

Right now just chillin'. FreeBSD 14.2 is out soon, so plenty of fun coming up.

Hopefu…

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> @Not_Oles said:
> You posted just prior to 4 AM in Turkiye! Are you sure you are in Turkiye?

As an old school hacker, you should know very well that 4am is very product…

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In case anybody has been trying to set up FreeBSD as a VPN server and has been struggling with somewhat lackluster network performance with virtio drivers (e1000 actually work very well in KVM), keep…

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> @emperor said:
> Sadly after 2 months tinkering with BSD's i just could not resist and went back to this beauty on Linveo
>
> <a href="https://ibb.co/LRDCDzz"&g…

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> @webz said:
> @ReliableSiteHosting Intel Special 64GB - is this server already gone, cannot find it listed there also what model CPU is this?

"Sold out servers will be a…

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The handbook should have everything needed:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig/#kernelconfig-building

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/po…

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Thank you everybody involved to put this together! I'll definitely try this out .

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> @cmeerw said:
> Interesting, I only ever get as far as this with OpenBSD:

This is the problem with x86_64 image. Regular x86 works fine.

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> @Not_Oles said:
> @Crab What's up in the FreeBDSD world?

Since everything "just works" every day and night, there's not much to report but 100% uptime across the board!<…

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> @Not_Oles said:
> [ 2.884958] WARNING: 8 errors while detecting hardware; check system log. # What's with this?

Not sure, but it might be just scanning all the po…

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> @linveo said:
> Do you want switched over to an AMD Ryzen node?

Thank you for the offer! Since it sounds like everybody else has already gone to AMD, I think it is bette…

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Accidental double post.

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> @cmeerw said:
> > @linveo said:
> > > @cmeerw said:
> > > @linveo Just having a quick look around the installation options on the VM dashboard. From …

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> @cmeerw said:
> I have put together another [NetBSD 10.0 image](https://edge.cmeerw.net/netbsd-10.0-v2.qcow2). With some luck that should now even apply the network configuration and a…

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> [@linveo said](/discussion/comment/186415/#Comment_186415): I wonder if it needs to be from scratch and this can't be changed mid install.

If you want to setup another VM with tho…

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> @linveo said:
> I have changed yours over to QEMU 64bit.

It seems to be no-go. Powered the VM off and it doesn't even boot anymore. Control panel just says FAILED after …

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> [@linveo said](/discussion/comment/186411/#Comment_186411): I am happy to change it for anyone that wants to try another setting such as QEMU.

Yes please change my VM's settings, …

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Does VirtFusion have CPU topology settings hidden somewhere? When I look at the server creation API ([https://docs.virtfusion.com/api/#api-Servers-Build](https://docs.virtfusion.com/api/#api-Servers-…

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Excellent discovery @cmeerw !

Looking at the kernel code at https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/arch/x86/x86/cpu_topology.c lp_max means the maximum logical proce…

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> @linveo said:
> * Added support for FreeBSD memory usage display.

I tried this out since I was curious about its implementation. By default it is trying to access /proc/…

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I noticed Linveo VirtFusion panel had changed its appearance, so I was wondering if a newer version was installed with potentially better support, but booting NetBSD and OpenBSD ISOs failed the same …

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I have had one VirMach VM since 2018 and with mixed feelings I have to say that it has one of the highest uptimes I have ever had. Based on everything I have read over here it shouldn't be possible, …

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FreeBSD works great on the Linveo instance and I'm very happy with its performance. Network is snappy and the node doesn't feel like it is crowded at all. Disk I/O is superfast. With both Root-on-ZFS…

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@Not_Oles Just saying as a friend, you might find more peacefulness for example by going fishing. Perhaps it would be time for you to take a day or two off instead of trying to deep deeper meaning in…

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I was able to get a screenshot of 9.4 just before the reboot and it was showing

WARNING: couldn't open /var/db/entropy-file
Loading /stand/amd64/9.4/modules/cd9660/cd9660.kmod

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> @emperor said:
> @Crab if you already set ipv6_defaultrouter in rc.conf can you try issuing this to see if its gonna work? I remember i needed to do it manual as something is broken an…

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> @emperor said:
> If anyone struggle with ipv6 setup on Ohio network, just set the prefixlen to 48 instead 64 . In Arizona was working fine with 64 prefixlen.

It is the s…

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OpenBSD 7.2 i386 - boots
OpenBSD 7.3 i386 - boots
OpenBSD 7.4 i386 - boots
OpenBSD 7.5 i386 - boots
OpenBSD 7.2 amd64 - boot hangs late
OpenBSD 7.3 amd64 - boot han…

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OpenBSD 7.2 i386 actually did boot. Let me do some more testing here.

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> @AlwaysSkint said:
> I used netboot.xyz and got OpenBSD booted and (semi-)manually installed - hurrah!

Interesting...I tried booting OpenBSD with netboot.xyz and it hang…

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> @Otus9051 said:
> hey there!
> ![](https://files.catbox.moe/h2b8ui.png "")
>

FreeBSD just works.

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