phausTesting #Sylve
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage Bhyve VMs, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI.
Ricardo Martín 
Testing as an alternative to base jails and BastilleBSD this weekend ✌️
https://sylve.io/guides/advanced-topics/jailing-sylve/
Graham PerrinRE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
Michael DexterThe recording of the February 5th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed taking time to review your open bug/problem/issue reports to verify if they are still valid or should be closed, bhyve suspend/resume, a UEFI boot order issue, a USB Pass-Through patch, #Sylve smart(8) and tmux, root on p9fs, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
2026-02-05 bhyve Production User Call
The recording of the January 22nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed recent Windows NVMe driver news, LibVirt improvements, CPU pinning, musl libc compatibility with Linux Jails, Rocky Linux Jails without systemd, a p9fs call for testing, bhyve/ARM64, #FreeBSD logo usage, #Sylve news with a demo, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
2026-01-22 bhyve Production User Call
gyptazyOne thing that I always missed in my infrastructure at @[email protected] when running with #bhyve was a missing #Prometheus exporter for metrics of the #VMs (and #jails) - agentless of course... It f*cked me up, that I simply wrote it for my new platform which is based on #Sylve in #FreeBSD (thanks to @[email protected] for creating Sylve!).
It's written in Go and will be published asap.
It's written in Go and will be published asap.
I really love to see #Sylve in #FreeBSD allowing us to define CPU pinning with #bhyve! That's a missing piece in other "major" solutions... Well done!
#virtualization #proxmox #opensource #alternatives
#virtualization #proxmox #opensource #alternatives
Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️♂️Discovered Sylve, a "Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD"
I find myself being more and more tempted to try out FreeBSD for my own projects, but unfortunately I have only one set of hardware and it's currently in active use.
So first things will be on a VM, and go from there.
The six RAM modules donated by $you_know_who_you_are (they did not request public gushing) for the Ampere system on loan from @winterschon with BIOS from @bexcran WORK!
Boom! A 64GB RAM/32 vCPU #ARM64 #bhyve VM booted in seconds!
Roman has made LibVirt progress on the system, as has @hayzam on #Sylve.
Go team!
Edit: Correction: 100GB RAM VM!
@[email protected] hey!
Honestly, I’m not fully aware about the current situation of Apple Silicon systems with different OS rather than macOS. However, I temporary used that for Ampere systems based on aarch64 which was technically ok, but keeping the software stack up to date isn’t fun (or relying on external third party sources). Nowadays, I would use:
I guess, you’d be happier with one of that solutions in longterm.
Thanks a lot, wish you also a merry Christmas and some nice days with your family :)
Honestly, I’m not fully aware about the current situation of Apple Silicon systems with different OS rather than macOS. However, I temporary used that for Ampere systems based on aarch64 which was technically ok, but keeping the software stack up to date isn’t fun (or relying on external third party sources). Nowadays, I would use:
I guess, you’d be happier with one of that solutions in longterm.
Thanks a lot, wish you also a merry Christmas and some nice days with your family :)