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I use an 4GB Quadro card from the same generation and depending on the model can get faster than I can read output. It\u2019s not as good as commercial models, but smaller Qwens and Gemmas work well. The Quadro came with a Dell refurb that cost about as much as the card would have by itself at the time. (I\u2019m doing this with passthrough on a Fre", "context": "", "use_case": "GPU passthrough to Linux VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend"}, {"id": 768541185, "item_id": 48033824, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033824", "by": "kuon", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "BSD runs zfs and bhyve with VM on it", "excerpt": "I recently switched from Linux to freebsd on my work computer and things have been mostly working. With linux chroot I can use the few apps missing BSD port. I did this because I manage a fleet of BSD based server (BSD runs zfs and bhyve with VM on it) and I wanted the same base system for me. I wonder how BSD friendly those laptop are. In any case I am so happy to see some open hardware solution.", "context": "manages a fleet of BSD-based servers", "use_case": "server virtualization", "switched_from": "", "story": "StarFighter 16-Inch"}, {"id": 761241698, "item_id": 47577606, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577606", "by": "wolvoleo", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've played with bhyve before", "excerpt": "This is really interesting. I've played with bhyve before but I didn't realise anyone actually used it in anger. And that people had written such great tooling around it. My home lab still uses ESXi 8. But it needs something new and I was looking at proxmox. However I may give this a try first.", "context": "home lab user", "use_case": "virtualization", "switched_from": "", "story": "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab"}, {"id": 761217953, "item_id": 47576122, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576122", "by": "sidkshatriya", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Is bhyve reliable ?", "excerpt": "I love FreeBSD but Linux just provides every feature under the sun when it comes to virtualization. Do you find any missing features on bhyve ? Is bhyve reliable ? I can't imagine its been tested as thoroughly as KVM ...", "context": "", "use_case": "virtualization", "switched_from": "", "story": "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab"}, {"id": 743419953, "item_id": 46463747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463747", "by": "TacticalCoder", "date": "2026-01-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "bhyve looks like it could the final piece of the puzzle to be free of Microsoft/Poettering's systemd.", "excerpt": "This is getting lots of upvotes and rightfully so. I think people would love more posts about FreeBSD: especially about ZFS and bhyve (the FreeBSD hypervisor). It's a bit sad that this Lenovo ThinkCentre ain't using ECC. I use and know ZFS is good but I'd prefer to run it on a machine supporting ECC. 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