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Might be something i install to a vm as a project. Not seeing any compelling reasons to switch from arch except zfs

rwmj 9y ago
And ironically the latest FreeBSD doesn't boot in QEMU if you're using AMD hardware, as of about a month ago. The bug has been open since 2016: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213333 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213333
- GalacticDomin8r 9y ago
  So filing a QEMU bug on FreeBSD's tracker is supposed to help how?
  - rwmj 9y ago
    While we can argue about precisely where the blame lies, I'm leaning towards a FreeBSD bug here since it cannot handle the topology that QEMU supplies (yet Windows, Linux, older FreeBSD can). In any case maybe the FreeBSD community could interact with the QEMU community, since virtualization is probably the way most new FreeBSD users come on board.
    - slacka 9y ago
      I couldn't find this issue on the QEMU bug tracker. https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/ Since you encountered it and I don't yet have AMD hardware to test, would you mind reporting it?
      - rwmj 9y ago
        No, because (as discussed above): (1) I do not think it's a QEMU bug. Windows, Linux and older versions of FreeBSD work fine. (2) I'm one of those people who thought, let's try to compile some software on FreeBSD .. meh can't get it to work. It's really for FreeBSD to fix this, if they want to on-board new users (and maybe they don't, that's totally fine too).
        bsdhacker 9y ago
        I use an older version of QEMU with the latest version of FreeBSD and it works fine.
- earenndil 9y ago
  > as of about a month ago > open since 2016 Which is it?
  - rwmj 9y ago
    2016 as you could easily see if you'd opened the link.
tga 9y ago
Good news, ZFS also runs on Linux. http://zfsonlinux.org http://zfsonlinux.org https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS
- earenndil 9y ago
  Yet it's clearly not native to the same extent and it shows. Article talks about this a fair bit.
Scarbutt 9y ago
Well, arch doesn't get used much in the server, and for good reasons.

rwmj 9y ago

And ironically the latest FreeBSD doesn't boot in QEMU if you're using AMD hardware, as of about a month ago. The bug has been open since 2016: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213333 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213333

GalacticDomin8r 9y ago
So filing a QEMU bug on FreeBSD's tracker is supposed to help how?
- rwmj 9y ago
  While we can argue about precisely where the blame lies, I'm leaning towards a FreeBSD bug here since it cannot handle the topology that QEMU supplies (yet Windows, Linux, older FreeBSD can). In any case maybe the FreeBSD community could interact with the QEMU community, since virtualization is probably the way most new FreeBSD users come on board.
  - slacka 9y ago
    I couldn't find this issue on the QEMU bug tracker. https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/ Since you encountered it and I don't yet have AMD hardware to test, would you mind reporting it?
    - rwmj 9y ago
      No, because (as discussed above): (1) I do not think it's a QEMU bug. Windows, Linux and older versions of FreeBSD work fine. (2) I'm one of those people who thought, let's try to compile some software on FreeBSD .. meh can't get it to work. It's really for FreeBSD to fix this, if they want to on-board new users (and maybe they don't, that's totally fine too).
      - bsdhacker 9y ago
        I use an older version of QEMU with the latest version of FreeBSD and it works fine.
earenndil 9y ago
> as of about a month ago > open since 2016 Which is it?
- rwmj 9y ago
  2016 as you could easily see if you'd opened the link.

tga 9y ago

Good news, ZFS also runs on Linux. http://zfsonlinux.org http://zfsonlinux.org https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS

earenndil 9y ago
Yet it's clearly not native to the same extent and it shows. Article talks about this a fair bit.

Scarbutt 9y ago

Well, arch doesn't get used much in the server, and for good reasons.