https://jamesog.net/tags/freebsd/ Recent content in freebsd on james(bl)og Hugo en-gb Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:42:35 +0000 https://jamesog.net/2013/06/15/freebsd-on-bigv-now-with-virtio/ Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:42:35 +0000 https://jamesog.net/2013/06/15/freebsd-on-bigv-now-with-virtio/ <p>FreeBSD 8.4 was <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2013-June/001479.html">recently released</a>. I noticed in the <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.4R/relnotes-detailed.html">release notes</a> that virtio is now enabled by default. Hurrah!</p> <p>With this in mind, I decided to give Bytemark’s <a href="https://www.bigv.io/">BigV</a> another go. Previously I’d had to use a custom CD image and semi-manual installation process to use FreeBSD on BigV, or otherwise face the performance penalties for using KVM’s IDE emulation. (It’s <em>really slow</em>.)</p> <p>The good news is that with 8.4-RELEASE you don’t have to do a thing to get virtio to work. It detected the disk and network adapter fine. The VM is flying along. Very happy with that.</p>