Cron job to consistently reboot a VM on TrueNAS CORE

[Stux]

@diskdiddler

This is an old problem I had long long ago on TrueNAS Core, like 3 or 4 years, my Ubuntu DockerVM would fall over inconsistently no idea why.

Wonder if this would help, it seems @pmh may have figured out one of the issues

Anybody still experiencing freezing Linux VMs on CORE?

Hi all, on the old forum we had quite a few users whose Linux VMs occasionally froze with no apparent reason. Looks like some good soul in the small bhyve community I am a part of found the root cause and a solution. Linux uses the RDRAND instruction to generate randomness and it doesn’t like it if the CPU just pauses for a moment, because it has run out of entropy. If this ever occurs depends on the CPU architecture and generation and that’s why I among others could never reproduce the probl…