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• The latest set of changes has been pulled from the Warner’s
qemu-bsd-user
project bringing Qemu version to 9.2.0 along with some fixes and
improvements.
Current Status:
• The initial port successfully runs make -jN buildworld.
• Most command-line tools are working as expected (sh(1), bash(1), find(1),
grep(1), git(1), clang(1), etc).
• A GitHub Actions pipeline builds x86_64 emulation images for:
□ linux/386
□ linux/amd64
□ linux/arm/v5
□ linux/arm64/v8
• A pre-built Docker container with FreeBSD 14.1 binary world is created
and
pushed to the GitHub Container Registry.
□ FreeBSD Image @ GHCR
• Special pre-built "admin" container with Linux user-mode qemu binary for
the FreeBSD/amd64 emulation is also published at the GHCR.
□ FreeBSD binfmt Image @ GHCR
Next Steps: * Bump FreeBSD version to 14.3; * Rebase onto Qemu 10.0.x.
How You Can Help:
• Test with your preferred toolchain, report issues, or contribute fixes.
• Identify and implement missing system calls.
• Support us on Patreon.
Sponsor: Sippy Software, Inc.
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Sylve — A Unified System Management Platform for FreeBSD
Links:
GitHub URL: https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve
CI URL: https://sylve-ci.alchemilla.io
Discord URL: https://discord.gg/bJB826JvXK
Contact: Hayzam Sherif
Sylve is a modern, unified system management platform for FreeBSD, inspired by
Proxmox. We aim to provide an integrated web interface for managing virtual
machines (via Bhyve), Jails, ZFS storage, networking, and firewalling. The
backend is implemented in Go, while the frontend uses SvelteKit with Tailwind
CSS and ShadCN UI components.
The project emphasizes a minimal system footprint, currently requiring only
sysutils/smartmontools, sysutils/tmux, and libvirt as runtime dependencies.
Sylve continues to address a key gap in the FreeBSD ecosystem by delivering a
cohesive, user-friendly interface for system administration tasks.
Q2 Progress Highlights
Dashboard
Added dynamic charts to the main summary page, including real-time
visualization of CPU usage, RAM usage, and network throughput.
Networking
Interfaces can now be viewed in detail through the UI, with all relevant
metadata presented in a structured format.
Users can also create "switches" — simple layer 2 switches built on top
of
FreeBSD bridge interfaces.
Storage
ZFS integration is nearing completion. Users can now:
• Create and destroy pools, filesystems, volumes, and snapshots.
• Delete multiple datasets at once.
• Schedule automatic (timed) snapshots.
Initial dashboard work for ZFS monitoring has started, with further
enhancements planned in Q3.
Utilities
A built-in downloader was introduced that supports both HTTP and magnet links.
This is especially useful for fetching ISO images or VM templates directly
through the interface.
Virtual Machines
VM creation and deletion with Bhyve is now supported.
Key features include:
• CPU pinning.
• Web-based VNC console access.
• PCI passthrough for devices.
• Basic CPU and RAM usage charts for each VM.
A new runtime dependency on libvirtd has been added to support VM lifecycle
operations.
Planned for Q3
• Polish and stabilize current functionality.
• Ability to edit VMs.
• Expand charting and add a basic notification system to detect hardware or
service failures.
• Implement UI and API support for managing Jails.
• Extend networking features:
□ More switch/bridge types.
□ Firewall rule configuration.
□ DHCP support via dns/dnsmasq or similar (for VMs).
□ WireGuard VPN integration.
Contributions, testing, and feedback are very welcome. If you are interested in
contributing, consider helping with:
• UI testing and accessibility feedback.
• Bug reports and feature requests via GitHub.
Sponsor: FreeBSD Foundation and Alchemilla (development and infrastructure
support)
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Hackathon 202506 Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
Links:
Hackathon/202506 Wiki Page URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/202506
FreeBSD Hackathon Wiki Page URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon
In the week following BSDCan 2025, a hackathon took place in the
Kitchener-Waterloo area.
Thanks to Ed Maste for hosting this event at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener.
Pictures of the hackathon
Pictures of the hackathon are collected here.
National FreeBSD day landed sometime during the hackathon, so Charlie Li
treated us to a great DJ set to celebrate, mixing entirely on FreeBSD at an
arcade bar in Waterloo :)
The work done during the hackathon
WiFi Testbed (Li-Wen Hsu)
• The hardware of a proof-of-concept wireless has been set up in
Foundation’s
Kitchener office.
• The current setup is simple:
• One baremetal machine has multiple wireless interface and,
• One access point is also connected to the machine via a serial console
and
a private testing network
• Currently we have following hardware to be passthru to bhyve VM
provisioned
with the image from Artifact server of FreeBSD CI
• Intel AX210
• Realtek RTL8812AU
• The work continues on connecting it to FreeBSD CI cluster as a downstream
job after standard tests finishes.
Installer (Joseph Mingrone, Ed Maste, Aymeric Wibo)
• Go through installer step-by-step and create the Improving the Installer
wiki page with the notes we collected.
• lualoader: Add distinct brand for installer (Make it obvious to users
that
the system is booting into the installer.) Patch:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51001
pkgbase (Ed Maste)
• bsdinstall(8): Default to pkgbase if media contains base packages Patch:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50467
• release(7): Add set -e to abort upon failure Patch:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50383
Landing scheduler run queue patches (Olivier Certner)
• Land all scheduler runqueue patches.
□ D45387
□ D45388
□ D45389
□ D45390
□ D45391
□ D45392
□ D46566
□ D46567
□ D50880
Capsicum (Ed Maste)
• Improvements to the capsicum(4) manpage. Patches:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50855, ce65ff203a4f
• Capsicumize beep(1) to serve as an easy example of Capsicum. Patches:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50709
s2idle/S0ix/USB4 (Aymeric Wibo, Sheng-Yi Hung)
• Fix some more USB4 driver panics.
• Discuss how s2idle should work w.r.t. the scheduler with Olivier & Mark,
and temporarily implement "idle" state for the scheduler (where it just
always chooses the idle thread).
• Extend amdgpio driver to service all GPIO interrupts (requirement for
S0i3
on AMD). We were also looking into how we can consume GPIO interrupts in
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