In June 2022, I started work on porting FreeBSD to run on Firecracker. My interest was driven by a few factors. First, I had been doing a lot of work on speeding up the FreeBSD boot process and wanted to know the limits that could be reached with a minimal hypervisor. Second, porting FreeBSD to new platforms always helps to reveal bugs ā both in FreeBSD and on those platforms. Third, AWS Lambda only supports Linux at present; Iām always eager to make FreeBSD more available in AWS (alth ... ā Read more
In June 2022, I started work on porting FreeBSD to run on Firecracker. My interest was driven by a few factors. First, I had been doing a lot of work on speeding up the FreeBSD boot process and wanted to know the limits that could be reached with a minimal hypervisor. Second, porting FreeBSD to new platforms always helps to reveal bugs ā both in FreeBSD and on those platforms. Third, AWS Lambda only supports Linux at present; Iām always eager to make FreeBSD more available in AWS (alth ... ā Read more