From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2602:4b:a4ef:2500:12bf:48ff:fe7c:5584]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CE4D777892 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:46:12 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brannon To: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com References: <20140118070132.GA6130@vmailbox.org> <52DAB695.6010401@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:46:06 -0800 In-Reply-To: <52DAB695.6010401@gmail.com> (Cleverson Casarin Uliana's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:15:01 -0200") Message-ID: <877g9xuqsh.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] FreeBSD port X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:46:13 -0000 Cleverson Casarin Uliana writes: > and installing/using an entire OS through SSH is not > practical. First, congratulations to David on getting edbrowse into the ports tree! Well, if you just want to try FreeBSD, there are always virtual machines. Have a look at qemu. It has a curses display driver, which you can select by passing -curses on the command line. Any text-mode OS should work. You may have trouble if the OS insists on displaying one of those silly splash screens. This puts the display into graphic mode and breaks qemu's curses driver. With Linux, this can usually be gotten around by passing an appropriate parameter to the kernel at boot. I've never had any trouble with this when running *BSD under qemu, so I assume they don't do the splash screen thing? Serial consoles are also an option. With qemu, you can redirect the serial port to a TCP listener, so that you can access the serial console via telnet. Use a Unix-domain socket and socat for greater security. If your hardware supports hardware virtualization, you can use qemu with kvm. This is much more performant than plain qemu. It isn't noticeably slower than running on bare metal. I've used qemu extensively for many things, including trying out various flavors of BSD. So if you want to take FreeBSD for a spin without installing it on actual hardware, this is a great option. -- Chris