I make heavy use of vnet jails in FreeBSD at work. Due to FreeBSD's rc.d system not supporting vnet jails well, I opted to create a little command-line PHP project to make administration of jails easier. Though the tool was useful, it lacked in flexibility and usability. After learning how to write modules for Drupal, I opted to rewrite my jail administration project as a Drupal module. Though I wouldn't recommend running this project in a production environment, it's very useful for development environments. I use different jails to keep different development projects organized.

FreeBSD 9.0 is nearing release--9.0-release is now tagged in version control! This is a major milestone release for FreeBSD with enhancements to many existing features. I keep an up-to-date git repo of FreeBSD 9-stable (updated nightly) at GitHub. My git repo contains a few custom patches I've written the past little while. I will continue to keep the repository up-to-date on a nightly basis as best as I can (the nightly cron job is running in a FreeBSD VM I run at work).

I tested my server yesterday to see if it would support FreeBSD 9. It appears that my motherboard isn't fully supported, which could be why I had issues with ZFS on FreeBSD a few months ago. I will likely put off upgrading the motherboard on my server until summer. That means that I'll be sticking with OpenIndiana for a while longer. If IllumOS' KVM supports AMD processors before then, I might stay with OpenIndiana permanently. I'm happy to stay with OpenIndiana--it's stable, feature-complete, and does nearly everything I need it to.