A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Aaron LI’s added NVMM, hardware acceleration for virtual machines, to DragonFly.
The version of qemu in dports is not set up to support this, yet. Until then, you can download a prebuilt version.
Since NVMM originated on NetBSD, the NetBSD documentation page for it describes how to use it quite well. There’s a man page in DragonFly for it too, of course. There’s even basic machines to try.
ChiBUG meeting is at 6 PM at the normal place, which means you should go if you are near, and vaccinated.
More BUG meetings are happening, which is great.
This week’s BSD Now goes into structure and progress, judging from the titles on display. Also, I did not link last week’s “410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway” because I was on the road – look at it too if you haven’t yet.
ndis(4) is removed from DragonFly; it’s probably been years since it was applicable to any hardware. I don’t think it will affect anyone – but it’s an interesting tool from a historical perspective; for a while it was possible to use Windows XP drivers to create a BSD network driver, effectively.
I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links. Sorry! I will have much more next week.
Tonight, via Zoom: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. Go, even if you aren’t near.
I’ll post a reminder for the NYCBUG event.
This week’s BSD Now is tech-heavy, with rpg-cli to lighten the mood.
Yes, I am clearing out all my open tabs from Solène this week.
No pun this time; the episode covers the title exactly – plus more recent headlines.
ChiBUG’s in-person meeting is tonight. Go, if you are near. (and vaccinated, which you should be.) There will be stickers and of course pizza.
Follow the helloSystem links this week.
This week’s BSD Now gets into jails heavily (do not pass Go) this week, plus a few other topics.
Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week.
Sounds like a space drama: this week’s BSD Now covers some different flavors of virtualization plus notes a Michael W. Lucas interview.
Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.
This week’s BSD Now talks about starts (NetBSD, DragonFly releases) and ends (preventing memory-based process kills, deleting boot environments).
Tomorrow, for NYCBUG, Minimal Scripted Configuration from Eric Radman. Go, if you’re online.
Some useful setup instructions in here.