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VM on bhyve not booting

Last night I installed updates on my FreeNAS box and rebooted it. As expected my network died, but then it never came back, which I hadn’t expected.

My FreeNAS box provides backup storage space, a local Debian mirror and a mirror of talks from recent conferences. It also runs a couple of virtual machines and one of these provides my local DNS resolver.

I hooked up the VNC console to the virtual machine and the problem looked to be that it was booting from the Debian installer CD. I removed the CD from the VM and rebooted, thinking that would be the end of it, but nope:

It Died: An Update

Update: I’ve had an offer of a used workstation that I’m following up. I would still appreciate any donations to go towards costs for cables/converters/upgrades needed with the new system but the hard part should hopefully be out the way now. (:

Thanks for all the responses I’ve received about the death of my desktop PC. As I updated in my previous post, I find it unlikely that I will have to orphan any of my packages as I believe that I should be able to get a new workstation soon.

It Died

On Sunday, in my weekly report on my free software activities, I wrote about how sustainable my current level of activites are. I had identified the risk that the computer that I use for almost all of my free software work was slowly dying. Last night it entered an endless reboot loop and subsequent efforts to save it have failed.

I cannot afford to replace this machine and my next best machine has half the cores, half the RAM and less than half of the screen real estate. As this is going to be a serious hit to my productivity, I need to seriously consider if I am able to continue to maintain the number of packages I currently do in Debian.

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