Grafana in an OmniOS pkgsrc branded zone

       381 words, 2 minutes

I run a lot of bhyve VMs on my OmniOS server because that’s the way I’m used to go with exposing services. For fun knowledge purposes, I decided that I would replace my Grafana virtual machine with an Illumos zone. Thanks to pkgsrc, this is really easy and straightforward.

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Mounting NTFS and exFAT filesystems on OpenBSD

       589 words, 3 minutes

I often try various OSes on my spare laptops. This is where Ventoy turned out to be really useful. If you don’t know, Ventoy is a free bootloader that looks like Grub and let you boot whichever ISO files you put on the USB key it is installed. Just copy / paste the ISO on the dedicated USB key partition and it’s ready to boot. It works from Windows, Linux but not on OpenBSD. Well… until I discovered some error messages didn’t mean what I thought they did…

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Enable NuPhy Field75 volume knob on FreeBSD 14

       683 words, 4 minutes

By default, FreeBSD 14.1 does not recognized the multimedia keys of my NuPhy Field75 USB keyboard. Worse than that, the (beloved) metal knob used for volume control doesn’t work either. Hopefully, after a bunch of readings & trials & errors, I ended up finding the configuration bits required to have it fully working!

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Remote Desktop using RDP and VNC

       2259 words, 11 minutes

My initial questionning was on the opportunity to run a desktop environment using virtual machines provided by the OpenBSD vmd(8). But vmd(8) doesn’t feature graphics, as of OpenBSD 7.5. Let’s see if this can be achieved anyway.

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Multiboot Windows and OpenBSD with rEFInd

       1349 words, 7 minutes

A year ago, I wrote about multibooting Windows, Linux and OpenBSD on my laptop. Since then, lots have happened. The most relevant part is that Linux is gone and I only multiboot Windows and OpenBSD. If I had done it from the beginning, I would have used rEFInd rather than Grub. And here’s how.

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