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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Greetings To The DragonFlyBSD
Forum,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Around one year ago I installed DragonFlyBSD
from ISO image, on a QEMU / KVM virtual server at </FONT><A
href="http://www.elastichosts.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>www.elastichosts.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial> (EH)</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I plan to use DragonFly to host a website I am
developing that has static content plus two fairly simple PHP + SQL
apps.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My business strategy is to run DragonFly on
QEMU / KVM virtualization, because this widely-used VM standard ensures lively
price competition among plenty of VM hosting providers. I am happy to accept the
higher overhead of QEMU / KVM, as compared to other more aggressive specialised
VM architectures, in exchange for wider VM portability and a deeper VM supply
market. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I chose DragonFly as
the server o / s, mainly for its reputation for reliability and efficiency, and
for the robustness of the the HAMMER filesystem. The support of a solid team of
open source developers for DragonFly, also attracted
me.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>After some minor fiddling around and one tweak of
the QEMU / KVM configuration by EH tech support, DragonFly was booting fine. And
readily accessible through both VNC console and SSH console.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A year ago, after that DragonFly
installation work, I had to redeploy my time deal with other projects,
so the DragonFly QEMU / KVM at EH has been idle until now.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* **</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am now porting the website PHP app from using
MySQL to using PostgereSQL, expectong Postgres to be a more
robust database server. That SQL migration work is done on a different
development system, not the QEMU / KVM DragonFly VM..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When the PHP SQL porting task is finished, I
will be returning to DragonFly on the EH QEMU / KVM (and to more active
participation in the DragonFly forum:), to continue working with setting up
DragonFly. Probable first step will be to upgrade DragonFly to the latest stable
release.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Last year, when I paused the DragonFly work,
I had installed and was configuring the Fish Shell (fishshell.com) as the
(non-emergency) regular working shell. But since then I have been following
the fish shell users forum <A
href="mailto:fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net">fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> and
the seemingly (to me) casual attitude of fish shell developers, to breaking
existing fish shell scripts, with new shell version releases, has convinced me
to switch to try using the MKSH shell, instead with DragonFly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I can't yet speak to the speed or
dependability of DragonFly, under any kind of live production workload on the
QEMU /KVM at EH, but I have high hopes of rapid throughput and great
reliability.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Steve</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Steve Petrie, P.Eng.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>ITS-ETO Consortium<BR>Oakville, Ontario,
Canada</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:apetrie@aspetrie.net"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>apetrie@aspetrie.net</FONT></A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=zachary.crownover@gmail.com
href="mailto:zachary.crownover@gmail.com">Zachary Crownover</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=justin@shiningsilence.com
href="mailto:justin@shiningsilence.com">Justin Sherrill</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=users@dragonflybsd.org
href="mailto:users@dragonflybsd.org">users@dragonflybsd.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 11, 2015 3:42
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: DragonFly on
DigitalOcean</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Vultr works quite well, but you have to submit a support ticket
to unblock SMTP traffic from your system, otherwise mail will just pool up on
the system and you'll see weird things like 50+ concurrent instances of dma
running.</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_extra><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Justin Sherrill <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:justin@shiningsilence.com"
target=_blank>justin@shiningsilence.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>If they (or any other provider) offers an "install from
ISO" option,<BR>you can buy one of the other instances and see if you can
upload/use<BR>the DragonFly ISO as an installation media, installed over
whatever<BR>premade operating system is already present. There's a
number of<BR>people who have been trying that lately at various VPS
providers -<BR>Netcup, Vultr, etc.<BR>
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<DIV class=h5><BR>On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Pierre Abbat<BR><<A
href="mailto:phma@leaf.dragonflybsd.org">phma@leaf.dragonflybsd.org</A>>
wrote:<BR>> Several days ago I set up a server on DigitalOcean. They
offer several Linux<BR>> distros and FreeBSD, but no other BSD. How hard
would it be for them to offer<BR>> DragonFly? They use Bochs for
virtualization.<BR>><BR>> Pierre<BR>> --<BR>> sei do'anai mi'a
djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse
srera<BR>><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all>
<DIV><BR></DIV>-- <BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Zachary
Crownover<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>