The mighty world of BSD

Playing with again smolBSD, a fantastic metaOS system that I talked about a few weeks ago.
I'm a newbie, a greenhorn, when it comes to meta-operating systems built on top of NetBSD.

I am very eager to learn by doing, making mistakes in the process, correcting and feel the warmth of the BSD community, who is happy to correct, esp when I show that I read the docs after making the mistakes

The journey is fantastic, the learning process is fun. microVM's are amazing. I've registered 11ms boot times on this small machine with a few CPU cores (and 40GB RAM). The fun is endless

#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux

https://smolbsd.org/

Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program

https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/

#HackerNews #Booting #Linux #QEMU #Go #Kernel #Programming #PID1

A deep dive into QEMU: The Tiny Code Generator (TCG), part 1

https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/tcg_p1.html

#HackerNews #QEMU #TCG #Deep #Dive #Virtualization #OpenSource #TechBlog

The mighty world of BSD

Playing with again smolBSD, a fantastic metaOS system that I talked about a few weeks ago.
I'm a newbie, a greenhorn, when it comes to meta-operating systems built on top of NetBSD.

I am very eager to learn by doing, making mistakes in the process, correcting and feel the warmth of the BSD community, who is happy to correct, esp when I show that I read the docs after making the mistakes

The journey is fantastic, the learning process is fun. microVM's are amazing. I've registered 11ms boot times on this small machine with a few CPU cores (and 40GB RAM). The fun is endless

#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux

https://smolbsd.org/

Proxmox VE 9.1 released with support for OCI container images, TPM state support in qcow2 format, enhanced control for nested virtualization in specialized VMs, better SDN status reporting

https://proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-1

#proxmox #proxmoxve #debian #linux #virtualization #hypervisor #qemu

Proxmox VE 9.1 released with support for OCI container images, TPM state support in qcow2 format, enhanced control for nested virtualization in specialized VMs, better SDN status reporting

https://proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-1

#proxmox #proxmoxve #debian #linux #virtualization #hypervisor #qemu

Pretty interesting how an old hardware works well and compute well in the strange configurations.

Prereqs: Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz and 2 Gb RAM.

Since there are no NetBSD builds of xray-core and v2raya — I spin up a FreeBSD VM inside the Qemu and without NVMM accelerator (not supported by my CPU). Execute these programs inside this VM — and the server still running and even doesn't overload

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #Qemu #IntelAtom #SelfHosting

Pretty interesting how an old hardware works well and compute well in the strange configurations.

Prereqs: Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz and 2 Gb RAM.

Since there are no NetBSD builds of xray-core and v2raya — I spin up a FreeBSD VM inside the Qemu and without NVMM accelerator (not supported by my CPU). Execute these programs inside this VM — and the server still running and even doesn't overload

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #Qemu #IntelAtom #SelfHosting

Hello Anti-Ai, Anti-Tech, Anti-Fun Complainers,

Go ahead and keep being miserable while the rest of the world moves on without you; leveraging advanced technology to further the human race, engaging in complex scientific research with supercomputers, solving complex medical diagnoses, improving the success rate of invasive surgical procedures, and continuing efforts to create the world which you already benefit from — despite all of those misinformed views about this evolving technology you refuse to understand.

> "but.. the media told me that skynet.. and those evil chatbots.. something about hallucinations.. and our burning desire to anthropomorphize machine intelligence".

Anyway: https://zenodo.org/records/17196870 here's some recent fun with LLMs.

> [Kelsi Davis] decided to port the Macintosh System 7 OS to run on native x86 hardware, which would be challenging enough with full access to the source code. However, she instead performed this task by analyzing and reverse engineering the System 7 binaries with the aid of Ghidra and a large language model.
>
> Soon enough, she had the classic System 7 desktop running on QEMU with a fully-functional Finder and the GUI working as expected. [Kelsi] credits the LLM with helping her achieve this feat in just three days, versus what she would expect to be a multi-year effort if working unassisted.

#ai #llm #mac #qemu #reverseengineering

Hello Anti-Ai, Anti-Tech, Anti-Fun Complainers,

Go ahead and keep being miserable while the rest of the world moves on without you; leveraging advanced technology to further the human race, engaging in complex scientific research with supercomputers, solving complex medical diagnoses, improving the success rate of invasive surgical procedures, and continuing efforts to create the world which you already benefit from — despite all of those misinformed views about this evolving technology you refuse to understand.

> "but.. the media told me that skynet.. and those evil chatbots.. something about hallucinations.. and our burning desire to anthropomorphize machine intelligence".

Anyway: https://zenodo.org/records/17196870 here's some recent fun with LLMs.

> [Kelsi Davis] decided to port the Macintosh System 7 OS to run on native x86 hardware, which would be challenging enough with full access to the source code. However, she instead performed this task by analyzing and reverse engineering the System 7 binaries with the aid of Ghidra and a large language model.
>
> Soon enough, she had the classic System 7 desktop running on QEMU with a fully-functional Finder and the GUI working as expected. [Kelsi] credits the LLM with helping her achieve this feat in just three days, versus what she would expect to be a multi-year effort if working unassisted.

#ai #llm #mac #qemu #reverseengineering

I like the minimal TUI installer of OmniOS. The system was installed in less than 2 minutes without problems.

Now I can start exploring it...

#omnios #illumos #unix #qemu

I like the minimal TUI installer of OmniOS. The system was installed in less than 2 minutes without problems.

Now I can start exploring it...

#omnios #illumos #unix #qemu

Just finished updating my SlackBuild to build QEMU 10.1 cleanly on Slackware 🎉

✨ Highlights of QEMU 10.1 on x86_64:

- Improved CPUID handling (guests see cleaner CPU flags)

- KVM backend improvements (TDX/SEV-SNP support for servers on newer kernels)

- TCG accuracy improvements

Still runs great on laptops for daily Slackware VM use

I’ve updated my SlackBuild so it compiles QEMU 10.1 without Meson option issues.
Grab it here:
🔗 https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/slackbuilds/tree/main/item/modified/qemu

#slackware #qemu #slackbuild

Just finished updating my SlackBuild to build QEMU 10.1 cleanly on Slackware 🎉

✨ Highlights of QEMU 10.1 on x86_64:

- Improved CPUID handling (guests see cleaner CPU flags)

- KVM backend improvements (TDX/SEV-SNP support for servers on newer kernels)

- TCG accuracy improvements

Still runs great on laptops for daily Slackware VM use

I’ve updated my SlackBuild so it compiles QEMU 10.1 without Meson option issues.
Grab it here:
🔗 https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/slackbuilds/tree/main/item/modified/qemu

#slackware #qemu #slackbuild

Back to working on my #homelab after a break. It isn't very apparent or easy to find the cloud images for #ubuntu or #debian to run #VM. I have this setup via #libvirt #qemu & #cockpit. Took some time to find the correct permissions on #ArchLinux but quite a breeze to use afterwards.

Back to working on my #homelab after a break. It isn't very apparent or easy to find the cloud images for #ubuntu or #debian to run #VM. I have this setup via #libvirt #qemu & #cockpit. Took some time to find the correct permissions on #ArchLinux but quite a breeze to use afterwards.

Good morning Fedi! Do any of yall use a operating system that's not Linux, Windows, BSD or Mac on a regular basis? If so, which one?

#os #linux #bsd #macos #windows #dos #freedos #amiga #plan9#Solaris #aix #pdp11 #retrocomputing #os2 #qemu #haikuos

docs: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators · qemu/qemu@3d40db0

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048

#qemu #vibecoding #opensource

OpenBSD 7.7 released with AMD SEV support in QEMU, SMP improvements, updated DRM based on Linux Kernel 6.12.21, kernel support for Ryzen AI 300, Radeon RX 9070 and Intel ArrowLake, new Intel E810 ethernet devices driver, support for MA devices, installer and bootloader improvements

https://www.openbsd.org/77.html

#openbsd #openbsd77 #bsd #amdsev #amdryzen #qemu #opensource #freesoftware