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flipchip0288

I've just only begun to use FreeBSD again after a rather long hiatus and would like to assist with testing and debugging however, I can't dedicate a bare metal facility to the purpose so I thought that I'd grap an iso image of the current and use a VM instead.

Does the fact that I'm opting to go the VM route make me a lesser member of the community?
 
We have a community?

Seriously, running on a VM can expose things that running on hardware does not. That's a good thing.
If you muck something up, recovering from a VM is usually easier than real hardware.
 
happydolphin0288 said:
Does the fact that I'm opting to go the VM route make me a lesser member of the community?
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Just a virtual member :)

To be serious, I usually test new versions in VMs (one for -current, one for stable/14, one for release etc). They won't catch all the errors but a good minimum test.
 
happydolphin0288 said:
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If you mean CURRENT (the main branch), three things may be most relevant:

forums.freebsd.org

Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions

The FreeBSD Forums cater primarily to end-users and systems administrators. As such, the Forums focus almost exclusively on FreeBSD versions that are officially supported according to the official FreeBSD website. Since resources are scarce, the FreeBSD Forums strongly suggest that anyone asking...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

forums.freebsd.org

Please create a -current forum

Looks like folks would like to have a place to discuss experiences with the -current branch. Better here than on Reddit. kpedersen convinced me that this is a bad idea here: https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/please-create-a-current-forum.79595/post-503475
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

forums.freebsd.org

Living on the edge

I'm using -CURRENT on a VM where I can do snapshots in case something breaks, etc. I want to know the experience of people using -CURRENT for serious workloads. Why do you use CURRENT? How many times it broke? Do ZFS snapshots help in this case? Which other tools and processes you use to...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

From the latter: "I think of FreeBSD-CURRENT as leading edge (not bleeding edge)".
 
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