Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

(gyptazy.com)

56 points | by JohnDohnBohn 4 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • e12e 34 minutes ago

    Anyone heard anything from dragonflyBSD lately? This sounds like something that might go well with HammerFS?

    • adrian_b 11 minutes ago

      I am using FreeBSD, not DragonflyBSD, but I happen to be on a DragonflyBSD developer mailing list, which is normally low traffic, except that I have noticed recently a lot of messages with various patches, mentioning both bug fixes and newly implemented features.

      So the project is alive and it seems more active than previously.

  • als0 2 hours ago

    Also related is Propolis from Oxide who worked on live migration with Bhyve https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

  • JohnDohnBohn 4 hours ago

    Looks like this could really become a game changer for the FreeBSD folks using bhyve. The author often complained about this missing feature and he was also contributing to the Sylve project. Looks like he's crafting something.

  • hnlmorg 2 hours ago

    What’s FreeBSDs story like for Docker these days?

    I love FreeBSD. But I reluctantly had to migrate one of my home servers to Ubuntu Server because I needed Docker support as well as ZFS. Ubuntu Server, compared to FreeBSD, is a complete clusterfuck of an OS. And I regret the effort I spent migrating.

    • warpflyght 6 minutes ago

      There's experimental support for Podman and OCI containers on FreeBSD 14.3 and later, with some additional system configuration required [0], [1]. I've been playing with it off and on with FreeBSD 15.0 and 15.1, but I'm not using it for anything I depend on.

      [0]: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/containers/

      [1]: https://podman.io/docs/installation#installing-on-freebsd

    • TacticalCoder 30 minutes ago

      > What’s FreeBSDs story like for Docker these days?

      My current setup for Docker (Podman really in my case):

          Proxmox -> Linux VMs -> Podman containers inside Linux VMs
      
      My plan:

          FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor -> Linux VMs -> Podman containers inside Linux VMs
      
      So basically just ditching Proxmox for FreeBSD/bhyve. Then at long last I'll be, again, systemd-free.
    • johng an hour ago

      I used to use Ubuntu a lot about 7 years ago. I saw the writing on the wall. Once they started forcing snap down people’s throats, especially. I’ve been on Debian ever since and have been very happy. I also have run many other OS’s and I feel that Debian is still a good blend of polished and still friendly to the hacker.

  • jbird99 44 minutes ago

    Nice! Can we have high availability / clustering for jails next?

  • bashhq_r 3 hours ago

    so bhyve getting live migration finally means sylve might actually be usable for production clusters, been waiting on this.