Testing a VIMAGE enabled kernel in the FreeBSD cluster

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, November 20, 2014 12:27:46 AM Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I submitted this RFC to enable VIMAGE in the GENERIC kernel config
> > on January 5, 2015:
> >
> >
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-November/016282.html
> >
> > I'm not receiving any major opposition from the idea.
> >
> > It's a tight schedule, but what is the possibility that we could upgrade
> > one of the PF firewalls with a VIMAGE kernel sometime in the next 6
> weeks,
> > and test this out.  I would be interested in testing the following,
> > *not* in a vnet jail, on bare metail:
> >
> >  (1)  the PF ruleset in the FreeBSD cluster
> >  (2)  IPv6
> >  (3)  any other heavy duty network-y stuff that the FreeBSD cluster uses,
> >        which may not have been heavily tested by developers.
>
> We have another problem to solve first.  IPv6 doesn't work on the firewalls
> sometime after Oct 3rd and they were rolled back after the refresh failed
> spectacularly.
>
> Just to be clear though, you're asking for 'options VIMAGE' with no other
> changes, right?
>

Yes, that's right.

--
Craig