A (thin) jailed Bhyve runs a number of Linux VMs. The storage for each VM is allocated in ZFS Volumes. I ran into the following issues while getting this latest one running:
vm-bhyve: there was a persistent failure to start the VM reported as...
Why? What made you worry about this?
With regards to "Which forum to post in", it entirely depends on the core of the problem. If it's an issue that's related to virtualization "Emulation and Virtualization". Anything else can be posted in a...
You're fine! Virtualization is cool and there's a subforum for it:
https://forums.freebsd.org/forums/emulation-and-virtualization.51/
I prefer local VMs vs cloud :p
Hello, I'm Porter. I've been using FreeBSD and the other BSD and Unix-like operating systems for nearly twenty-six years on and off. I don't really run FreeBSD on bare metal these days because I can't afford a "modern" bare metal to run it on. So...
I run it daily on a 19 year old laptop (among others) and it runs nicely. You can pick old systems up very cheaply these days because many people regard them as junk because they can't run the latest version of Windows.
Small nitpick here - LLMs do not "understand" and do not have "own words". At least I saw no indication to that, but there may be somewhere.
What we need is a new word, I think. How would someone describe the process of what LLMs do? Stealing it...
Just using startx or xinitrc has a disadvantage: if the X11 server crashes then the terminal would return to the shell that is logged in.
`exec startx` is one way around that.
I boot into text mode. I then type startx. I have a little script to choose the window manager, but I almost always use dwm so it's just startx. On my other system with a GUI, I've been running the Wayland sway. I have another silly script that...
I think you misunderstood, or read in the diagonal, what I wrote.
I never said that FreeBSD Desktop is not possible, I said that FreeBSD is an OS that by default is geared to servers. If you want to make it a desktop you just need to install the...
It's about KDE running on a graphical screen provided by the Wayland display server? I have it installed as dependency of something X-related but never used it specifically. Is it possible to run a Wayland screen without anything else and not...
FreeBSD has always focused on stability, security and throughput. Being good for servers makes for good slogans and mottos.
Because FreeBSD does not make choices for you. It's a feature not a fault. Install the desktop you want, not the one...
It doesn't matter how one starts X, one can display to the Xserver by setting DISPLAY, assuming the X server authorizes the app to.
A process detaches from the terminal, i.e. console, is independent of whatever an app does to display to the X...
Startx executes xinit which takes over the display and then runs .xinitrc on the still running CLI stdout. When .xinitrc ends, the entire X-session terminates.
You can circumvent this manually, start Xorg with command X and then executre programs...
Why would you say that? Why would exec (and an exec() call) detach a process from the terminal? No, to detach from the terminal a process must fork, the child sets itself as the session leader, fork again, close stdin/stdout/stderr and exec...
zfs is kind of heavy on system with less RAM. you prob want to fine tune the kernel zfs ARC min max value if you use it on limited system. I have 32GB ram, still i see the wired memory use more than 60% before fine-tuning, after fine-tune it run...
This is just another doom thread based on a premise that to my knowledge is not true.
Can you link to a statement where KDE says they will not support FreeBSD anymore? (and not their stupid display manager that is systemd integrated, I don't use...
I thought everything was made of ports and dependencies. The x11/kde pkg-descr says it's Plasma. It depends on x11/plasma6-plasma... What's offtopic?
Anyway, now trying make it run fully independently of any local installation in a RAM system...
I had this port compile error many times but I forgot what causes this:
configure:5086: error: in `/usr/ports/ftp/curl/work/curl-8.20.0':
configure:5089: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
Yeah, you...
Google AI:
"As of early 2026, the KDE project has officially dropped support for FreeBSD in the KDE Plasma Login Manager (sddm-kcm) because it requires systemd/logind, which is not supported on FreeBSD. While the login manager is impacted, most...
I don't know if anyone saw Saturday Night Live with Oliva Rodrigo as the host over the weekend. But there was a somewhat slapsticky sketch, sort of a goof on Dynasty and other night soap operas, and it had me laughing, even on rewatch. It's a...
Xorg keeps on running detached from the terminal if you have that?
I add a read A as last line of ~/.xinitrc. It can be the window manager too but that can still crash.
This is because the openzfs branch that was applied to 14 when 14 was still 14-CURRENT is the one that is still tracked by FreeBSD-14. Similarly, the openzfs branch that was current at the time 15 was 15-CURRENT is the branch that FreeBSD-15 will...
Thinking about trying this in live configuration. (While I've never seen it) There are 100 ports with kde or plasma in the name. Is there a official run-dependency list? All level 1 dependencies of the x11/kde metaport?
Just using startx or xinitrc has a disadvantage: if the X11 server crashes then the terminal would return to the shell that is logged in.
`exec startx` is one way around that.
There should be no significant difference in how programs get cached in RAM so that they start up quicker when launched a second time between Linux and FreeBSD.
What's that called so I can disable it? :p (I heard of Windows superfetch but nothing other OSs)
Edit: Didn't read "after you open it" but already posted :cool: (curious if anything like Superfetch is available other OSs)
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