Notices by subnetspider (subnetspider@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Can really recommend this video, that all I needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47Pd0P58Co

And now there's a Debian 12 VM running on bhyve with the nvme disk driver.

To be honest, vm-bhyve seems to be all I need to run my virtual machines. Maybe I'll just replace my Proxmox VE host and use bhyve instead...

@matthew I'm not sure I understand your question, do you want to know if it is possible to run a NetBSD VM on a FreeBSD host with bhyve, or a FreeBSD VM on a NetBSD host?

Either way, NetBSD has both the NVMM and Xen hypervisors, so it should work both ways.

I've just set up vm-bhyve on a vanilla FreeBSD 14.2 server and created my first VM, it was actually a lot easier than I thought. :D

Got an "emergency" helpdesk ticket today, a customer lost communication between all six sites, which is critical for their operation.

Logged into the main firewall that all the other five sites connect to via VPN, as they have two internet connections with public IPs.

Found that all VPNs were down on both Internet connections, failover not working, and that no traffic was coming in on UDP 500/4500 on the wan side.

I suspected their CPE routers were the culprit, and wouldn't you know it, someone created a remote access IPSec connection on both routers, using the ports required by the firewall behind them.

Called the customer and they confirmed that some MSP that shall not be named had set up their own VPN access yesterday without telling anyone, nor testing if anything's still running. 😑

Scenarios like this make up most of my work: Fixing problems caused by other people who don't know what they're doing, but are smart enough to be dangerous.