Omnios

Grafana in an OmniOS pkgsrc branded zone

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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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Running NetBSD on OmniOS using bhyve

       729 words, 4 minutes

I want to run GoToSocial on some *BSD system. Because I am who I am, I went for using NetBSD 10.0 . And because my hypervisor is running bhyve on OmniOS , you get the title of this blog post. Don’t get too anxious, it is quite straightforward. So let the journey begin.

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Migrate a FreeBSD bhyve virtual machine to OmniOS

       483 words, 3 minutes

I have a home lab running FreeBSD bhyve hypervisor and a collo server running OmniOS. From time to time, I migrate some VMs from one to the other. It is very simple when using ZFS and sharing a compatible bhyve implementation.

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ZFS encryption and notification service on OmniOS

       679 words, 4 minutes

I have a Dell server in a colo. It (will) hosts some virtual machines and (private) data. And because trust does not exclude control (on your data), I do encrypt (at rest) some of the storage.

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Configure OmniOS to use an authenticated SMTP relay (smarthost)

       375 words, 2 minutes

All my servers use an SMTP relay to communicate via email. I have setup “service” accounts that they use to authenticate themselves on a smarthost. My OmniOS server is no exception.

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