133: The Tokyo Debrief

This week on BSDNow, Allan and I are back from AsiaBSDCon and we have an interview with Brad Davis about the new “Packaging Base” call-for-testing. We’ll be sharing our thoughts and stories on how the week

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AsiaBSDCon 2016 - Wrap-up

FreeBSD gets Haswell graphics support in time for 11.0-RELEASE

The moment that many have been waiting for has finally arrived, support for Haswell graphics has been committed to FreeBSD -CURRENT
The brings the DRM/i915 code up to date with Linux kernel 3.8.13
Work has already started on updating to Linux kernel 3.9
It is hoped that subsequent updates will be much easier, and much faster
It does not appear to require setting the i915.preliminary_hw_support loader tunable ***

OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update

For the third year running, bhyvecon was held last week, during the lead up to AsiaBSDCon
Bhyvecon has expanded, and now covers all virtualization on BSDs
There were presentations on bhyve, Xen Dom0 on FreeBSD, Xen DomU for OpenBSD, and OpenBSD’s vmm
OpenBSD vmm started at the Brisbane 2015 hackathon in Australia
Work continued through the summer and fall thanks to funding by the OpenBSD Foundation
The presentation answered some outstanding questions, such as, why not just port bhyve?
Initial focus is OpenBSD on OpenBSD
Loader currently supports FreeBSD and NetBSD as well
After the initial commits, other developers joined in to help with the work
Reyk reworked the vmd and vmctl commands, to provide a better user interface
Future plans:
- Nested VMX
- i386 support
- AMD SVM support
- Filesystem passthru
- Live migration (with ZFS like command syntax)
Other developers are working on related projects:
- qemu interface: Allow qemu to be accelerated by the vmm backend, while providing emulated hardware, for legacy systems
- KVM interface: Make vmm look like KVM, so existing tools like openstack “just work” ***

Interview - Brad Davis - brd@freebsd.org / @so14k

Packaging Base

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Packaging the base system with pkg(8)

The official call for testing for FreeBSD’s pkg(8)’d base is out
Users are requested to checkout the release-pkg branch, and build it as normal (buildworld, buildkernel)
Instead of installworld, run: make packages
This will produce a pkg repo in the /usr/obj directory
The post to the mailing list includes an example pkg repo config file to point to those packages
Run: pkg update -r FreeBSD-base
This will read the metadata from the new repository
Then run: pkg install -g 'FreeBSD-*'
This will find all packages that start with ‘FreeBSD-’ and install them
In the future, there will be meta packages, so you can just install FreeBSD-base and it will pull in other packages are dependencies
Currently, there are

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