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Date:      Wed, 17 Jun 2020 22:06:20 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        alan somers <asomers@gmail.com>,  "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <virtualization@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: nbdkit on FreeBSD
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:53 PM Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > Does anybody use nbdkit on FreeBSD?  It's a fancy NBD (Network Block
> > Device) server.  It runs fine on FreeBSD, but there's no port.  If
> anybody
> > is interested, I'll make a port for it.  However, if I'm the only one
> then
> > I won't bother.
> >
> > https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/
>
> I am not sure if this is what I looked at, but I was looking
> for a way to do old style sun "nd", and this looks to be 1/2
> of that, in that I see a server, but no client for the kernel.
>
> I would be interested in NBD if we have both ends.
>

There's lots of 'other ends' including qemu for this.

This is really cool!

Warner



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