ianthetechie

A short guide on setting up Debian guests in bhyve

I have a problem. I need to run some Docker containers for work. Docker, as you may know, has a design that is tightly coupled to Linux. This is rather unfortunate since my desktop is running FreeBSD, and my laptop is running its distant cousin, macOS. Normally I'd just do such things on my Mac, but 1) my desktop has a lot more storage, and 2) the Docker images in question are amd64 already. Also I just wanted a challenge, so let's set up a VM to run Docker on FreeBSD.

Aside in case you're wondering why Docker runs on your Mac: Docker Desktop actually ships a hypervisor,

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This will pull in source code for podman, buildah and related modules, build everything and install to /usr/local. This all happens in a directory named 'build' which can be deleted to clean up or to force a clean build.

mkdir -p build
fetch https://gist.github.com/dfr/ac4dc043ee3780b690c5887a61f53494/raw/1e55da486792ffda61c9d6070d5d834888be9590/buildah-install.sh
chmod +x buildah-install.sh
(cd build && ../buildah-install.sh)

Make a container and run things inside it: