With FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE, Aarch64 (64-bit ARM Architecture) is now a Tier-1 supported architecture!
Late in the 13.0 development cycle, VMware released ESXi ARM-Fling, a trial version of their well known vSphere hypervisor, but for 64-bit ARM systems.
All it takes is a Raspberry Pi 4 and the latest FreeBSD Aarch64 ISO to get up and running, but that wasn’t always the case.
This talk is all about the work that was involved to get FreeBSD and ESXi ARM-Fling to play nicely with one another, how boring it is to deploy Aarch64 virtual machines in 2021, and the more exciting future fore ARM virtualization!
Vincent Milum Jr
A History of Vince contains over two decades of tech things I’ve done! Currently playing around with FreeBSD Aarch64 support, specializing in MariaDB Galera clustering and ZeroTier mesh networking.