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Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:27:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, alan somers <asomers@gmail.com>, "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <virtualization@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: nbdkit on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <202006182027.05IKRwah092014@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrmNga20F_BDDxb5hi8=LzedmXBNPgpg=G3hhAU9YpCyw@mail.gmail.com>

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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.

I specifically meant native FreeBSD kernel.

> This is really cool!
> 
> Warner

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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