Free LES Community Server from Hosteroid via MetalVPS!

cmeerw

@cmeerw said:

@Not_Oles said:
* retiring OpenBSD on this server, for the moment, to free up more space

that's something I am planning to do soon.

That's done now - resizing a NetBSD filesystem is always a it fiddly, as you first have to make sure to remove to filesystem journal, then resize the filesystem, and finally re-create the journal again (if you are using wapbl).

$ df -k
Filesystem      1K-blocks         Used        Avail %Cap Mounted on
/dev/ld0g       486484620     53353048    408807342  11% /
kernfs                  1            1            0 100% /kern
ptyfs                   1            1            0 100% /dev/pts
procfs                  4            4            0 100% /proc
tmpfs             8376652            0      8376652   0% /tmp
tmpfs             8376652            0      8376652   0% /var/shm

(there is still Debian installed using the other half of the disk)

Not_Oles

Thanks @cmeerw! Much appreciated!

Thanks to Hosteroid for our nice community server! Which is now dual booting Debian and NetBSD. . . .

Anybody have a project and want to jump on? Please read "How To Apply" in the OP, and then come and join us!

cmeerw

I have installed qemu (with nvmm) to run a test NetBSD VM to see if I can reproduce the virtio issue I am seeing on the linveo VPS.

I looks like it could be a memory ordering issue in the virtio communication between the guest and the host, as adding an additional mfence in the driver code seems to fix it.

Not_Oles

@cmeerw said:
I have installed qemu (with nvmm) to run a test NetBSD VM to see if I can reproduce the virtio issue I am seeing on the linveo VPS.

I looks like it could be a memory ordering issue in the virtio communication between the guest and the host, as adding an additional mfence in the driver code seems to fix it.

@cmeerw How's it going?

Anybody else want to share this fine server?

Thanks @Hosteroid!

cmeerw

@Not_Oles said:

@cmeerw said:
I have installed qemu (with nvmm) to run a test NetBSD VM to see if I can reproduce the virtio issue I am seeing on the linveo VPS.

I looks like it could be a memory ordering issue in the virtio communication between the guest and the host, as adding an additional mfence in the driver code seems to fix it.

@cmeerw How's it going?

Been pretty busy the past week or so with other stuff - mainly replacing my 10 year old low-end laptop with a shiny new low-end laptop. With a 6.17.0 rc5 Linux kernel, even hibernate seems to work fine now.

Other than that, the virtio driver has been fixed on NetBSD HEAD now, waiting to make it's way into 9, 10, and 11 branches.

Not_Oles

@cmeerw said: shiny new low-end laptop

Sorry, can't resist asking which one, please?

cmeerw

@Not_Oles said:

@cmeerw said: shiny new low-end laptop

Sorry, can't resist asking which one, please?

Went for the Chuwi Corebook X 7430U, really seems like amazing value for money, and works absolutely fine under Linux (Ubuntu 25.04 with an updated kernel).

somik

@cmeerw said:

@Not_Oles said:

@cmeerw said: shiny new low-end laptop

Sorry, can't resist asking which one, please?

Went for the Chuwi Corebook X 7430U, really seems like amazing value for money, and works absolutely fine under Linux (Ubuntu 25.04 with an updated kernel).

As a past Chuwi user, I support your choice! I had their dual booting windows/android tablet. Lasted longer then my old lenovo yoga tablet at just over 1.5 years. It died cause I let the battery drain too low and forgot to charge it for a few weeks... When I got back to it, it was dead and would not take a charge. Hopefully they have fixed that by now.