sysutils/vm-bhyve makes it quite friendly.

I wouldn't use it for work, though, just personal. Work is all enterprisey kubernetes stuff.

Edit: there is a 'proxmox-like' for FreeBSD out [0] -- I did try it on a couple machines and couldn't get the network working, but consoles seemed to work.. Kinda.

0: https://sylve.io

There are multiple layers of controls and manual interventions and things, which while absolutely painful, slow, expensive and shitstorm-conjuring -- are ultimately the final authority on some failures.

For e.g, in payments -- every single settlement or clearing anomaly is looked at by a real human, and rectified/rebooked manually.

So, yeah, the stakes can be really high when you have a couple billion in memory on your server, but -- it's just a system.

And it will fail, and we plan for it to do so.

My point is that if you do, you probably shouldn't run, for e.g applications which need production db credential, or hold sensitive data on these boxes, or .. whatever.

Edit: I use FreeBSD extensively, for various things -- but shell access to them is restricted to the sysadmins..

You should treat any system where non-admins regularly login as basically insecure/owned and rig your architecture appropriately.

TBH -- I don't have any of these kinds of boxes anymore. Who is really running anything like this in 2026 and for what purpose?

I can only assume that electricity bills are included in his rent in France or most of them were powered off most of the time!

In the off chance he's reading -- thank you Miod (and OpenBSD team), your software and OpenBSD makes my life better to this day.

Sure, just vendor them in, simples, right?

I’ve given up trying to get that feeling back at work.

We were lucky for 20 years, now if we want to do it for craft it’s time to contribute to OpenBSD or something — with phish on, not for money.

I struggle to understand why, though.

0: https://github.com/isene/chasm