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Re:OpenBSD vmm enabled by ams6110 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:34PM (#12698253)
OpenBSD and FreeBSD diverged long enough ago that a port might not be straightforward, or in alignment with the objectives of the project.
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Re:OpenBSD vmm enabled by derefr on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:07AM (#12699029)
Bigger things have been ported across wider gaps. Illumos has a "port" of Linux's KVM!
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Re:OpenBSD vmm enabled by 4ad on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:54AM (#12699596)
Yeah, and the KVM in illumos comes from a now obsolete Linux, and the pf in FreeBSD and Solaris comes from a now obsolete OpenBSD.

If anything, this should teach us not to port unportable things from different operating systems, because the maintenance cost is untenable.

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Re:OpenBSD vmm enabled by phessler on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:03AM (#12700451)
Solaris' port of PF is not out of date. _And_ they are working with upstream to merge their changes so both parties have a) better code, and b) less maintenance burden.
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Re:OpenBSD vmm enabled by allanjude on Friday October 14, 2016 @09:34AM (#12707928)
iianm, Solaris has a port of IPF, not pf. Oracle is working on trying to port pf now.
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Re:OpenBSD vmm enabled by 4ad on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:44AM (#12713628)
The pf has been ported and it shipped already in Solaris 11.3. It is based on OpenBSD 5.5 code.
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