[HN Gopher] Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest - Running i...
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       Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest - Running in Production
       with Scissors
        
       Author : rodrigo975
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-10-01 12:28 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | tyingq wrote:
       | Note that the _" running with...scissors"_ part is the title of
       | the blog and not a specific dig at the idea of a Linux guest
       | running on FreeBSD. The article title is just _" Fun with
       | FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest"_.
        
       | pdntspa wrote:
       | I've been using bhyve to host an instance of Debian linux for a
       | contract I'm working on, and set it up with cbsd, and it's been
       | working really well! I love the fact that the guest VM's disk is
       | a zfs filesystem on the host, it makes snapshotting (edit- ok
       | maybe not, see below) and managing it super easy!
       | 
       | CBSD is fantastic but it can be a little hard to figure out due
       | to a sometimes-shaky English translation, and the documentation
       | is confusing for the same reason.
       | 
       | I've also had trouble getting it to work with regular BSD jails
       | and have been using ezjail instead. And it seems both of these
       | tools have some... expansive... ideas about how to spread out
       | config data across the host machine's filesystem.
       | 
       | But they all work fantastic once they're configured!
       | 
       | It would be really cool if there were tools that brought them in
       | line with docker, in terms of easy deployment and provisioning of
       | new jails/vms. If I didn't have so many damn project ideas
       | already...
        
         | sekh60 wrote:
         | Does Bhyve quiesce the filesystem for guest snapshots?
        
           | pdntspa wrote:
           | To be honest, I'm not sure, in fact snapshotting may not be
           | possible as I think it creates the filesystem as a block
           | device
           | 
           | https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ri7oij/bhyve_and_z.
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