The Gentoo FreeBSD project is a bit undermanned at the moment, and I'd like to help. However, I don't have the necessary time or resources to maintain a local FreeBSD system. Could Infra provide a VM-devbox for amd64-fbsd arch testing? Patrice has offered to install Gentoo/FreeBSD on it.
Yes infra can provide this, but it's going to be IPv6-only. monsierup: 1. what are the min & preferred specs on your end? In the existing VM hosting, we have: Min: 2 vCPU, 2G RAM, 10G OS disk [SSD] Common: 4vCPU, 8G RAM, 10G OS disk [SSD] + 150G scratch disk [spinning] 2. Normally we've handed over systems populated from the cloud stage4 images, which isn't going to work in your case. Do you have an initial VM-suitable image to use?
(In reply to Robin Johnson from comment #1) > Yes infra can provide this, but it's going to be IPv6-only. > > monsieurp: > 1. what are the min & preferred specs on your end? > In the existing VM hosting, we have: > Min: 2 vCPU, 2G RAM, 10G OS disk [SSD] > Common: 4vCPU, 8G RAM, 10G OS disk [SSD] + 150G scratch disk [spinning] > > 2. Normally we've handed over systems populated from the cloud stage4 > images, which isn't going to work in your case. Do you have an initial > VM-suitable image to use? Hey Robin I've got a working jail but unfortunately no working stage4 (yet). The best way to make Gentoo/FreeBSD work on this VM at this point is four fold: 1. tar up my jail 2. scp it over to the VM 3. untar it 4. boot it The common spec is fine. The VM must be set up with FreeBSD 11.1 amd64 using ZFS. Could you please take care of this part? If you could grant me enough privileges after installing FreeBSD, I can take over and sort out the remaining bits. Thanks!
For the record, I can try to install FreeBSD once the VM is booted with appropriate install media.
Setup note here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/fbsd_notes VM brought online, hostname is fbsd.amd64.dev.gentoo.org IPv6 only, SSH public keys already populated in the root user. Only concern: * Please set up firewalling! Only SSH should be allowed inbound, on both IPv4 & IPv6.
