History I’ve been running Xen since something like 2008, originally on an AMD Athlon X2 dual-core, when Paravirtual installs were the only option as hardware virtualisation wasn’t a thing yet. Obviously I’m bloody-minded 🙂 These days, virtual machines are much easier to do, but I still like to push boundaries, and for the last 3…
Part of my new build has me running 5x Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD’s as a RAIDZ array (stripes with one drive worth of redundancy), which I’ll be using as a pool for iSCSI targets off which will hang multiple VM’s as their boot drives. Overkill? Yes, certainly for a home server. Having just installed…
So I’m back, and this time to blog about my updates to my home network. Looking through my history here, its been 2.5 years since I set up my current incarnation of my home server, which is a neat little mATX case and motherboard, with an aging Lynnfield X3450 Xeon cpu, a supermicro motherboard, and…
So after a couple of comments from readers (what? you mean I’m not just screaming into the void?), I decided to investigate building the latest version of FreeNAS with Xen support. Since my original post about building FreeNAS 9.2 for Xen, the FreeNAS developers released 9.2.1 which added some cool stuff like Samba 4, newer…
Update 2/10/2014: A new build updating the files to FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 which includes a bunch of samba updates, and importantly, the fixes for the bash shellshock vulnerability. Update 17/5/2014: I’ve replaced the links on this page to a newer version, FreeNAS 9.2.1.5, and added the Upgrade file. Note for the upgrade through the FreeNAS UI,…
This post is short and to the point – annoyingly, the LSI drivers for FreeBSD seem to have issues using MSIX interrupts, which causes the adapter to either not work at all, or to stop working. The fix is simple, once you know how to do it 🙂 Lets start by assuming you’ve got your…
Ok, this took a long time to build, but it works, and the end result was ISO and img files for both i386 and x64. Update: By popular request, I’ve uploaded the iso for those unable/unwilling to build it.. see this latest post for the link to the iso. For the more intrepid who want…