You could try SmartOS for native ZFS support + virtualization built in (including linux containers) + pain free upgrades. Not a BSD but shares a decent amount o

You could try SmartOS for native ZFS support + virtualization built in (including linux containers) + pain free upgrades. Not a BSD but shares a decent amount of values (and code). It's a candidate for my home server and so far I love it. FreeBSD was another candidate but just skimming through the docs, what's easy on other systems looks painful there. Want to start a VM ? Here is a set of commands, different for every guest OS, with a bunch of unexplained options...