so my attempt at using freebsd failed. so my next plan of attack is to use stock barebones debian and vanilla docker (using compose). now i did some sort of weird things with regard to my debian install. i’m actually running 2 nvme drives with 3 partitions each (efi, swap, data) and used md to […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 9): fail
i really gave it the college try, but i realized something towards the end… i learned there are a ton of things in linux that are taken for granted. fbsd has an amazing development team and i’m sure for someone who has a job maintaining freebsd servers its is great. but for someone trying to […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 8): fml with bastille MAKE A GD BRIDGE!!
just a warning…. MAKE A BRIDGE in /etc/rc.conf … then use the -B flag when creating jails!! (trust me) this lets you give the bridge an ip. that’s kind of important in situations that i’ve found where i can’t nullfs mount in the jail due to permissions so i was just going to use smb. […]
debian + polari + znc + irc
i never found a way to get polari to work with znc out the box because it doesn’t seem to want to support self signed certs or a reasonable way to login. i think i’m getting stuck at the handshake because of the cert but i have no idea. i may come back to this […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 7): jellyfin in a jail with nvidia hw transcoding
i want to use jellyfin and come away from using plex. there is a quick and easy post on how to get jellyfin working in a jail here but it doesn’t really speak about how to get the hw accel trancoding working. the freebsd server has an ancient nvidia P400 in it which worked fine […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 6): rclone smb mounting
i wrote an earlier post about this but i think i need to revamp it. most of it is the same. install rclone and run through rclone config. the problem i was having was with it auto mounting when jails start. i was unable to find a solution for this so i just did it […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 5): the shell box
so i’m going to make a playground ‘shell box’ in a jail and join it to the domain. this should be pretty straightforward and will let me know i can actually join the domain. i need to add a user to samba first but for now lets prepare the jail. i’m getting faster at this. […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (supplemental): export / backup jails with bastille
snapshots are not backups! do not rely on zfs snapshot to save your ass if you really break something or if a server completely loses it. (although.. a snapshot sent elsewhere, like another zpool on a different system, may be considered a backup). going off of the earlier post i was working on getting a […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 3): domain controller
i want to centralize auth. since i use smb a lot and anything i can think of supports active directory it makes sense to just use an active directory domain controller. i was going to try using freeipa but it seems like it targets fedora / rhel and not freebsd. so i will go with […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 2): jail creation
the vlan stuff isn’t important for joe single network but i wanted things separated so i created vlan 999 for creating the freebsd infrastructure. i’m going to start by creating a jail for the dc. my host hostname is devil (in keeping with the freebsd hell theme). so the assumption here is that freebsd is […]