09-20, 15:00–18:00 (Europe/Dublin), Cedar
FreeBSD, bhyve and ZFS make a great framework to build a Type-1 hypervisor with. It provides a well-supported platform that can be used to host all modern operating systems.
The half-day tutorial that is aimed at beginner to intermediate skills, will give participants a hands-on learning experience to build up a FreeBSD host to host various operating systems and perform expected management tasks.
Key areas of focus will include:
* Hardware selection
* Software configuration toolchain from ports/packages
* Priming a system ready for use
* Templates for various operating systems
* Network configurations
* Various guest storage types under ZFS and considerations needed based on workloads
* Guest console management via serial or VNC
* Installation and management of various guest operating systems
Participants that wish to engage in the practical aspects of the tutorial will be expected to attend with a laptop that has WiFi connectivity. Those that wish to follow along using a FreeBSD laptop are welcome with that type of configuration as long as they have the means to download software from the provided WiFi network and FreeBSD repositories.
Benedict works as a lab engineer at the University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt in the database and operating systems group. He is teaching a class called "Unix for Developers" since 2012. Benedict is a documentation committer in the FreeBSD project and one of the moderators of the BSDNow.tv podcast.
Jason has over 28 years of IT industry experience in a vast range of disciplines and is currently the ICT Senior Security Lead at Latrobe Community Health Service (Victoria, Australia). Discovering Linux and Open Source in the mid 90's, then being introduced to OpenBSD in 2000, Jason has used these tools to solve various problems in organisations that cover different industries. Jason is also a co-host on the BSDNow Podcast.