This is more for my own needs, but I propose in this post to describe all steps required to upgrade a FreeBSD hsot running version 14.2 to the last version 14.3. And to particularely see what must be done for the jails running on it.

VM running on such host are not in the scope of the post since a VM is totally independant of the host.

I would show how easy it is to install a docker app on a FreeBSD host. I've taken the choice of the Image viewer called Immich which is not available on BSD systems.

After installing GhostBSD a few months ago, I decided to investigate why, in some cases, my mouse mouvement acts like a drag/drop instead of a simple move. This is really annoying when you have to click on webbrowsers's tabs. Instead of moving the mouse, it moves the webbrowser's tab in another window.

After having played with bhyve VM and Jail container in my previous posts, I'm investigating here how to migrate them from one host to another.

Unfortunately FreeBSD does not have "live migration" yet. But here you will see that the downtime could be around 1 second. For many applications such down time is not noticeable

In my previous blog post I was discovering FreeBSD VM and their impact on performance.

In this blog I'll compare a FreeBSD VM with a FreeBSD Jail

How complex is it to build, what are the steps, ...

And do we have the expected performance from those Jails

Every year stand one of the biggest OpenSource conference, and this is close to my house. The subject of this blog is to explain how I've configured my OpenBSD 7.6 and FreeBSD 14.1 to connect to their wifi which only "speak" IPv6

This is not a setup I encountered frequently, and I just want to remember how I did it ;)

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

With FreeBSD, the base system includes dma, the DragonFly Mail Agent. Developed by DragonFlyBSD developers, this SMTP client allows you to route outgoing mail through an established, trusted SMTP server.

This blog post will show how to redirect cron's email to a generic email address (agmail account in my case). And each server will have his own source email, so I can distinguish them easily.

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.

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, 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.