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Saturday, November 19, 2016

ClonOS: New FreeBSD-Based Free/Open Hosting Platform

Currently, FreeBSD is well proven as a base for routers (pfSense, OPNSense, BSDRP) and NAS (FreeNAS, zfsGuru, NAS4Free). However, FreeBSD-based solutions are almost completely absent in the virtualization area, and ClonOS is one of the attempts to change that.
ClonOS is a new free open-source FreeBSD-based platform for virtual environment creation and management. In the core platform are:
  • FreeBSD as the host OS
  • bhyve
  • xen
  • vale
  • jail
  • CBSD (as a management tool)
  • puppet (for configuration management)
  • additional features such as go-micro services (obtaining VMs, resizing disks, and so on)