FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available
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FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available
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Re: FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available
#2What's new: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available
#3The What's New for FreeBSD 10 wiki page[1] linked in the reply has more details (though it doesn't necessarily indicate what will make the cut). The interesting bits to me are the merging of VPS support[2] which, last I read was a patchset against the 7 or 8 kernel. The seamless migration of virtualized envs seemed like a pipe dream at the time, I can't wait to play around with it (if it makes the cut).
Not to mention virtio support and bhyve[3] (in addition to the old jail subsystem). If everything makes it in, there will be so many different options for service isolation!
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[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10
[2] http://7he.at/freebsd/vps/
[3] https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/bhyve?action=show&redir...
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available
#4So how does bhyve compare to kvm? I've seen FreeBSD people saying it's a 'legacy free' virtualization system but I don't really know what that means or entails.
Can it do live migrations and failovers like xen/kvm?
What can it do that kvm/xen can't? What about vice versa?
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available
#5Personally I can't wait to use 10 when it gets released.
But it's a pity that it won't see Gnome 3.10 due to its dependence on logind, and then logind's new dependency on systemd as of 205.
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#6I've had a long standing question about FreeBSD and ports/portsnap: does/how does FreeBSD prevent against bad mirrors or MITM attacks?
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#7I've had a long standing question about FreeBSD and ports/portsnap: does/how does FreeBSD prevent against bad mirrors or MITM attacks?
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#8I've had a long standing question about FreeBSD and ports/portsnap: does/how does FreeBSD prevent against bad mirrors or MITM attacks?
AFAIK ports checks the checksum of the file when it downloads it against the checksums the ports maintainer submitted.
For the ISO mirrors, I don't think there's anything automatic, you have to manually run sha256 on the file and compare checksums. Do Linux distributions have another way?
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#9It sounds like some amazing performance boosts around networking. I wonder how much of that will carry over to all of the network-type appliances built on FreeBSD? I know Juno's OS runs a pretty ancient version of FreeBSD (6 or 7 IIRC), but am not sure about any other commercial uses.
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 Alpha 1 now available
#10So how does bhyve compare to kvm? I've seen FreeBSD people saying it's a 'legacy free' virtualization system but I don't really know what that means or entails. Can it do live migrations and failovers like xen/kvm? What can it do that kvm/xen can't? What about vice versa?
It's legacy free in the sense that it doesn't do paravirt like Xen and requires hardware assistance like KVM. Maybe also that it doesn't use QEMU which has some pros and cons: http://www.slideshare.net/syuu1228/implements-bios-emulation.... Ultimately, it will let people like NetApp use it on their filers without any GPL complications though.
In all other respects, it's still in its infancy and I wouldn't expect KVM parity for common use cases until the next release. I'm more excited about the VIMAGE stuff in 10.