today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 10, 2025

• Ruben Schade ☛ Replacing a bunch of tarballs with ZFS snapshots

  I have a confession. For all my talk about FreeBSD and OpenZFS, I haven’t deployed some of its most useful features nearly as completely as I may have lead you all to believe. Or even myself, as it turns out. Chalk it up to the cobbler’s kid walking barefoot.

• MJ Fransen ☛ VNC on a OpenBSD virtual machine

  OpenBSD comes with the vmm(4) hypervisor and vmd(8) daemon. It is easy to create and install an OpenBSD virtual machine on an OpenBSD workstation. For more information, see the Virtualization page in the OpenBSD FAQ.

  Running one or more OpenBSD virtual machines on your OpenBSD laptop is great for testing purposes.

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