OpenBSD 7.8

What truly suprises me about BSDs is their simplicity and low footprint, OpenBSD being gold standard.

I've been playing with `byve` the last two weeks (I highly recommend vermaden's blog for anyone interested in BSDs and obviously the handbooks of each project) and I'm seriously thinking not doing a dual boot Linux install again. On my old x230 (which is running FreeBSD) I will be installing OpenBSD just to become more familiar with it.

I still don't get why just after installing Debian `top` shows me around 200 proceses. BSDs? Under 20. Other thing that pisses me off is for example how polluted (at least on Ubuntu) mountpoints are. Package management is also fragmented on Linux, while on BSDs is either a flavour of `pkg` or ports.

Perhaps I should still try more minimalistic Linux distributions, just don't know which are good candidates

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and still recommend it heavily to non-tech people around me but when you taste a BSD is hard to go back.

>>I've been playing with `byve` the last two weeks

I believe you meant "bhyve".

Yeap, actually I haven't run directly `bhyve` but using the `vm` wrapper as is very convenient.

I haven't looked at passrhrough yet, but I do feel that if I need to use it I would probably have to fight a bit with it, anyone had a hard experience setting it up?

No big fight, you just have to exclude the devices at boot so the vm can take them over [1] and if you have a AMD-System add that [2] and use the nvme virtual harddisk [3]

[1] https://dflund.se/~getz/Notes/2024/freebsd-gpu/#bhyve-passth...

[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/pci_passthru#Additional_Notes

[3] Creating a Windows Server 2019 VM using vm-bhyve : https://klarasystems.com/articles/from-0-to-bhyve-on-freebsd...