Synopsis

TBD...

Motivation

TBD... Platform/infrastructure project prototype.

Installation

Virtualbox image (dev/dtrace enabled, incremental)

cd /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd

sh nanobsd.sh -n -c sbconf_devdtrace.nano

VBoxManage convertfromraw /usr/obj/nanobsd.GENERIC/_.disk.full ~/freebsd_nano.vdi

Virtualbox image (dev/dtrace enabled, clean)

cd /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd

sh nanobsd.sh -c sbconf_devdtrace.nano

VBoxManage convertfromraw /usr/obj/nanobsd.GENERIC/_.disk.full ~/freebsd_nano.vdi

Virtualbox image (production, clean)

cd /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd

sh nanobsd.sh -c sbconf.nano

VBoxManage convertfromraw /usr/obj/nanobsd.SB0001/_.disk.full ~/freebsd_nano.vdi

Virtualbox will have the following config requirements:

• 2 CPU cores (so Erlang runs in SMP w/o additional flags)
• 640MB RAM (sufficient for dev/test, production running ZFS should have more)
• SATA or SAS disk emulation (legacy IDE disabled in SB kernel, legacy SCSI is slower)
• 2 Network adapters (Intel PRO/1000 MT, bridged to actual device for external NTP access)
• 1 Serial port enabled (for secondary terminal, socat/screen access {https://gist.github.com/snb/284940/11e6354f170be602c9c2f67b59d489ed49ebd143})

Notes

Erlang compilation

Requires gmake and perl as compile-time dependencies.

./configure --prefix=/opt/otp_r18.1 \
  --enable-hipe \
  --enable-kernel-poll \
  --enable-m64-build \
  --enable-sctp \
  --enable-smp-support \
  --enable-threads \
  --enable-vm-probes \
  --with-dynamic-trace=dtrace \
  --with-ssl \
  --with-termcap
gmake -j5
gmake install