bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor, udf information leak, being a vim user instead of classic vi, FreeBSD on ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware, new FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin in LLDB, OpenBSD Laptop, and more.
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Headlines
bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor (https://klarasystems.com/articles/bhyve-the-freebsd-hypervisor/)
FreeBSD has had varying degrees of support as a hypervisor host throughout its history. For a time during the mid-2000s, VMWare Workstation 3.x could be made to run under FreeBSD’s Linux Emulation, and Qemu was ported in 2004, and later the kQemu accelerator in 2005. Then in 2009 a port for VirtualBox was introduced. All of these solutions suffered from being a solution designed for a different operating system and then ported to FreeBSD, requiring constant maintenance.
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udf info leak (https://gist.github.com/CTurt/a00fb4164e13342567830b052aaed94b)
FreeBSD UDF driver info leak
Analysis done on FreeBSD release 11.0 because that's what I had around.
+ Fix committed to FreeBSD (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366005)
News Roundup
I'm now a user of Vim, not classical Vi (partly because of windows) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/VimNowAUser)
In the past I've written entries (such as this one) where I said that I was pretty much a Vi user, not really a Vim user, because I almost entirely stuck to Vi features. In a comment on my entry on not using and exploring Vim features, rjc reinforced this, saying that I seemed to be using vi instead of vim (and that there was nothing wrong with this). For a long time I thought this way myself, but these days this is not true any more. These days I really want Vim, not classical Vi.
FreeBSD on ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware (https://vincerants.com/freebsd-on-esxi-arm-fling-fixing-virtual-hardware/)
With the current state of FreeBSD on ARM in general, a number of hardware drivers are either set to not auto-load on boot, or are entirely missing altogether. This page is to document my findings with various bits of hardware, and if possible, list fixes.
Introduction of a new FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin in LLDB (https://www.moritz.systems/blog/introduction-of-a-new-freebsd-remote-process-plugin-in-lldb/)
Moritz Systems have been contracted by the FreeBSD Foundation to modernize the LLDB debugger’s support for FreeBSD. We are writing a new plugin utilizing the more modern client-server layout that is already used by Darwin, Linux, NetBSD and (unofficially) OpenBSD. The new plugin is going to gradually replace the legacy one.
OpenBSD Laptop (https://functionallyparanoid.com/2020/10/14/openbsd-laptop/)
Hi, I know it’s been a while. I recently had to nuke and re-pave my personal laptop and I thought it would be a nice thing to share with the community how I set up OpenBSD on it so that I have a useful, modern, secure environment for getting work done. I’m not going to say I’m the expert on this or that this is the BEST way to set up OpenBSD, but I thought it would be worthwhile for folks doing Google searches to at least get my opinion on this. So, given that, let’s go…
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Feedback/Questions
Ethan - Linux user wanting to try out OpenBSD (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/375/feedback/Ethan%20-%20Linux%20user%20wanting%20to%20try%20out%20OpenBSD.md)
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