floral_petals

Personal preference. I used to run Linux on my home server, until I heard about FreeBSD. The native ZFS support and their Jails sold me initially. It's just something that doesn't exist on Linux in the same way. I know that Linux has BTRFS which is very similar to ZFS, however, ZFS feels way more battle-proven than BTRFS. You can also get ZFS working on Linux, but it is much nicer to just have it, instead of needing to build it from source. I also tried all the common Linux containerization tools (docker, podman, LXC and systemd-nsspawn) and I never really liked them. Docker and Podman feel like a mess that abstracts away a lot of the underlying technology. Great, but also not great. I don't like such abstractions, since things can go wrong and it is generally a pain to fix. Things definitely did go wrong for me with Docker and Podman. I did like LXC and systemd-nsspawn a lot more than Docker and Podman tho, but they still felt wrong in some areas. That brings me to FreeBSD Jails. It is like LXC, but directly built into the OS. No external tools/programs required, and I really like that.

Hey, in case this is still relevant, or someone else sumbles upon this. I have tried it using the Linux compatability layer and it seems to work. I haven't done any extensive testing, but the server does start and I was able to join it. I setup the server in a FreeBSD jail, here are some commands that you should be able to copy-paste on a fresh FreeBSD install, and it should "just work", you however likely want to change some things (e.g. changing the jail location from "/jail" to something different). I tested these on x86 with FreeBSD 15.1. I am making use of a debian jail in this case, installing the .NET runtime, and then doing a fairly basic vintage story server setup. I still have to figure out how to get the server auto-starting and auto-stopping upon jail starting/stopping. # Prepare host pkg install -y debootstrap service linux enable service linux start # Prepare jail mkdir /jail debootstrap trixie /jail cd /jail/etc echo "root::0:0::0:0::/root:/bin/bash" > ./master.passwd pwd_mkdb -d . -p ./master.passwd # Configure jail cat <<'EOS' >> /etc/jail.conf vs-server { exec.start = "/bin/true"; exec.stop = "/bin/true"; exec.consolelog = "/var/log/jail_console_${name}.log"; persist; allow.raw_sockets; allow.mlock; # Required by the .NET runtime, see https://github.com/sec/dotnet-core-freebsd-source-build/issues/24 exec.clean; host.hostname = "${name}"; path = "/jail"; # Linux file systems mount += "devfs ${path}/dev devfs rw,late 0 0"; mount += "tmpfs ${path}/dev/shm tmpfs rw,late,size=1g,mode=1777 0 0"; mount += "fdescfs ${path}/dev/fd fdescfs rw,late,linrdlnk 0 0"; mount += "linprocfs ${path}/proc linprocfs rw,late 0 0"; mount += "linsysfs ${path}/sys linsysfs rw,late 0 0"; # Change this to your own preferences! ip4.addr = "192.168.122.220"; # TODO: IPv6 interface = "em0"; } EOS # Start the jail service jail enable service jail start # jexec vs-server /bin/bash apt update apt install -y wget # https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/13/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb apt update apt install -y dotnet-runtime-10.0 # https://account.vintagestory.at/ wget https://cdn.vintagestory.at/gamefiles/stable/vs_server_linux-x64_1.22.6.tar.gz mkdir -p /opt/vs-server tar xzf *.tar.gz -C /opt/vs-server rm *.tar.gz useradd -m -s /bin/bash vs-server mkdir -p /var/opt/vs-server chown vs-server:vs-server /var/opt/vs-server su vs-server -c "dotnet /opt/vs-server/VintagestoryServer.dll --dataPath /var/opt/vs-server --genconfig" nano /var/opt/vs-server/serverconfig.json exit PS: I plan on doing further FreeBSD + Vintage Story server testing, I will follow up this reply with the results! ^-^