Omnios

Migrate a KVM virtual machine to OmniOS bhyve

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Because I am replacing my Linux KVM machine with an OmniOS bhyve server, and I don’t want to reinstall all my VMs, I went for migrating those. And because I am not aware of vMotion-like feature between those two platforms, I just used the shell.

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Quick look on performance and power usage of Aoostar R1 N150

       2088 words, 10 minutes

I bought a noname 2 bays NAS that looks like the Aoostar R1 N150. And before putting it into production, I had a quick look on how it performs on various OSes and how many watts it eats.

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GoToSocial Adventures: run on OpenBSD

       2285 words, 11 minutes

I used to run GoToSocial on OpenBSD but, one day, the port was marked BROKEN and I switched to using Mastodon on Linux. Still, I kept testing running GoToSocial on NetBSD, Illumos, FreeBSD and Linux. Not so long ago, GoToSocial started to compile and work pretty nice again on OpenBSD. After using it for about a year on a SearXNG side project , I decided that I would also use it as my primary account on the Fediverse . This post is about installing and running GoToSocial on OpenBSD .

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Tinkering with Fujitsu FUTRO S930

       2668 words, 13 minutes

After watching Wolfgang’s review of the S920 , I went for chasing one and found a refurbished Fujitsu FUTRO S930 for 54€. I bought it with a few extra electronics parts and tested it with a few FOSS operating systems I know.

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Modify an OmniOS service parameters

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I was today years old when I needed to change some of the parameters of my Prometheus service on OmniOS. It runs via pkgsrc and the provided SMF. And modifying the running parameters is not as simple as editing an rc.d file.

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