Category: OpenBSD

How My BoxyBSD Project Boosted the Proxmox Ecosystem

(2025-06-06):
When I first started BoxyBSD, I had a fairly straightforward goal in mind: Build a completely free VPS hosting platform with full IPv6 support aimed at beginners and small open-source projects. Something simple, lightweight, and accessible. But as the project evolved, I realized it was becoming much more than just a small personal project and BoxyBSD started giving back - not only to open-source in general but also to the Proxmox community in ways I hadn't anticipated. What surprised me the most was how deep I had to dive into architectural decisions that I initially thought wouldn't matter that much - surprisingly it also changed my whole initial idea running everything on FreeBSD with bhyve - and let me say - it should become completely different! Managing resources efficiently across multiple VMs, fully automated deployment, monitoring system including all guests, clustering across different locations and live migrations of guests - .... [read more]

Run FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD VMs in Incus

(2025-05-05):
Not too long ago, I published a blog post all about Incus. In it, I gave an overview of the project, explained how it works, and showed how to create a cluster with it. After sharing it on social media, I started getting a lot of questions, and one in particular kept coming up: is it easy to run BSD-based virtual machines with Incus? Some people were even surprised to learn that Incus now supports virtual machines thanks to its QEMU backend. So I thought, why not follow up and walk through just how simple it is to get FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD running using cloud images? It’s actually a pretty smooth experience. The Incus tooling makes it fairly straightforward to work with VMs, and the BSD community provides ready-to-use cloud images that fit right into this workflow. This means there’s no need to manually install or configure these systems .... [read more]