/me has logged the dmesg of #OpenBSD running on #OmniOS using #bhyve. Because not only KVM deserves love If you look closer, there is also a #NetBSD instance available. Because Great Scott! #RunBSD!

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=8345

I took the opportunity of the #GoToSocial upgrade to 0.19.0 to also start polling the #prometheus endpoint using the #VictoriaMetrics vmagent. This lead to identifying a bug (I think) so the gentle devs now have another PR to deal with
Regarding OSes, this is #OpenBSD polling and storing metrics from #NetBSD and rendering them using #OmniOS and #pkgsrc.
Who said I was a sane person

I still have not understood the lifecycle of an LX branded zone in #OmniOS / #illumos .

When installing and running a, let’s say, Debian 12 LX image. Does it upgrade to 13 like a normal VM (via apt upgrade etc) or is it mostly static - and a new image must be used for next release ?

Plans for tomorrow: among other things, test the refactored #BSSG on illumos-based OS.

/me playing with #Grafana and #VictoriaMetrics to keep an eye at what happens to my #PowerDNS #dnsdist VPS hosted at #OpenBSD_Amsterdam. All those running on a mix of #OpenBSD and #OmniOS resources.

#til #zadm has a built-in web vnc.

Oh the irony

Not sure if I can reach any #illumos #omnios #openindiana people here, but here goes: does anyone know if there is a well maintained GCP image that could be used to run some flavour of illumos? PostgreSQL uses Cirrus CI with Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, Windows, macOS images. illumos is a missing target!

Und morgen abend ist völlig überraschend schon wieder der dritte Dienstag im Monat... #FRAOSUG-Dienstag! Wir treffen uns um 19 Uhr zu zwanglosem Austausch über alle möglichen IT-Themen, mit einem leichten Schwerpunkt auf #illumos-basierten OSen wie #SmartOS, #OmniOS und #OpenIndiana -- es gibt auch News über den Versuch, einen "Förderverein" für OpenIndiana aufzubauen. Wir treffen uns hier: https://public.senfcall.de/fraosug20250218 Jeder ist willkommen, mitzudiskutieren!

Now is time to set up Nagios for the Alpine Linux bhyve VM. #omnios #linux

So the story: on my NAS first I replaced FreeBSD with Linux because I wanted using the NAS also as a desktop machine. After some time I realized that I do not use the NAS as a desktop machine that much. So it was time for OmniOS. I really like it. Running Alpine Linux in a bhyve VM with Jellyfin with the *arrs. #omnios #freebsd #linux

So any good courses to learn OmniOS and/or SmartOS?

TIL that SmartOS have ready Debian VMs so if i can't run it in a LX zone, i can just grab a ready made zvol and run it in a bhyve zone.
#pihole #smartos #omnios

Installing OmniOSce on a Contabo "Dual 10-Core Intel Xeon (E5-2630v4)" [0]
#illumos #omnios #vps #server

[0] https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1490-installing-omniosce-on-a-contabo-dual-10-core-intel-xeon-e5-2630v4

#adblock ? What is your BSD take on this?

I was trying to get pihole running on a LX container in #omnios no luck

i have used #unbound and a joany-custom blocklist

Lately, I've been very busy, both with work and personal matters. However, I did manage to do a series of experiments and tests with OmniOS, and I admit that for some workloads, it has definitely convinced me. Not to replace FreeBSD, but to complement it. Some advantages:

- The ability to run both KVM and bhyve VMs is a big advantage because, in some cases, I need to run VMs on KVM (some technicians know it and prefer it).
- By giving dedicated zones, I can assign one to each user who needs to manage their VM. This can also be done on FreeBSD by using bhyve in jails. I’ve tried it, and it works well.
- The LX zones (Linux) are more compatible compared to FreeBSD zones with the Linuxulator. Systemd works, and the zone limits are correctly reported by Linux commands such as free, etc. Sometimes, I need to give users Linux VMs, and I must use bhyve because the non-functioning systemd and incorrectly displayed limits (it always reports total RAM, not the one limited to the jail) are blocking. In this way, I can avoid double-caching, double kernel, etc.
- Some people, when they hear Illumos, think I’m talking about a new type of lamps. When I talk about *BSD, they think I’m talking about "nerdy" stuff. But as soon as I mention Solaris, their eyes widen because, in their imagination, it represents stability and security par excellence. So welcome OmniOS!

However, I have a series of issues that are limiting my testing/deployment:
1) No problem on Hetzner physical hosts – both in ipv4 and ipv6. I just need to configure the global zone with a /72 IP (instead of /64) and assign another /72 to the interface that will be assigned to the zones, enabling routing. It works; Hetzner accepts this routed setup, a dynamic I have already encountered and tested successfully on FreeBSD.
2) Hetzner VPS "cloud" servers: The Virtio-SCSI supported by Illumos is 1af4:1004, while the Virtio SCSI controller at Hetzner is: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio 1.0 SCSI [1af4:1048] (rev 01). This means that OmniOS VMs cannot boot. I reported this in the OmniOS IRC channel, and they confirmed the incompatibility. It shouldn’t be hard to adapt/create the driver, but personally, I am not able to, so I’m stuck.
3) It runs well on Netcup, and everything works fine in ipv4, but I am encountering issues (the same ones I had with FreeBSD) with ipv6. It seems that Netcup doesn’t like that type of routing, so I have to assign ipv6 to the main interface, using shared routing. It doesn’t make me jump for joy. Also, in this case, there seem to be problems (no issues from the global zone, but from other zones, I can ping Google, but there are reachability issues with other hosts. I am investigating; I remember having the same issue on FreeBSD, but I don’t remember if/how I solved it).

The experiments will continue in the coming days.

@bexcran cc @dexter We currently have a PR in review for OpenIndiana #bHyve where it looks like for at least one contributor that CSM has been completely dropped upstream in #freebsd can somebody you know confirm this? Or should we get different sources? https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/20086