OS Distribution Release NetBSD 10.1

NetBSD 10.1 is available as a netboot install.

This version of NetBSD will be supported by the The NetBSD Foundation until the next point release of the 10.x series.¹

Benchmarks of NetBSD 10 show performance and scalability gains over NetBSD 9.x, especially on multiprocessor and multicore systems, for compute and filesystem-bound applications.

See the release notes for a summary of kernel and userspace changes.

Installation

Unlike the NetBSD 9.x series, NetBSD 10.x runs under hardware virtualization (HVM) and is not supported by Tornado VPS when running a paravirtual machine (PV). Users can convert their virtual machine from PV to HVM in the VPS console, using option #3 under the maintenance options menu (itself available as option #b from the main menu).

You can install NetBSD 10.1 via the VPS Console using option #6 (set bootloader, rescue mode, or netboot installer), followed by option #4 (Netboot installers) and selecting “NetBSD 10.1 64-bit”.

From there, return to the main menu and use option #2 (create/start, opens OOB console) to boot in to the netboot installer. The installation procedure can then be followed. A full console recording of the NetBSD 10.1 installation is shown here:

After the install is complete, use option #6 (set bootloader, rescue mode, or netboot installer) to boot from disk and reboot your virtual machine: