I would invest time and energy on the setup of VM, but on which platform ? Since +15 years, I like BSD systems, but I hear more and more persons promoting Linux/KVM platforms. Should I re-invest (I started with Linux before 2000) my time on Linux ecosystem ? Lot of elements must be taken into account to answer such question, but in this blog I'll focus on the performance aspects. More specifically, I'll compare Linux/KVM and FreeBSD/bhyve. And I'll use tests representative for me which are mainly compute and filesystem. The network part is also important, but the machine I will use for such study is not a good one for that. Update February 9th 2025: I have added a comparison between virtio-blk and nvme

We would like to perform few rsync on a remote machine to backup some of his important files. But we do not want PermitRootLogin. In this blog we will see one of the alternative: forced-commands-only

My last evaluation on other BSD has decided me to use ZFS for my [NAS](https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20160719). My OpenBSD NAS server is working since +8 years very well, but I'm at 85% of his capacity. Despite it offers a [pseudo-snaptshot system via rsync](/post/post_20160724), this little machine becomes too small to manage and provide files of several GB we have today. So, why not replace the software when we have to replace the hardware ;). In this post, I will not perform the standard install of FreeBSD. I will explain why I do that.