You need a special branch of bhyve to work on AMD (see recent thread on the
topic)


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <w...@digiware.nl>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just for the fun of it, I tried my build zfs-system scripts in a bhyve-vm.
>
> I use the 10.0-RELEASE iso to get to a shell, config and interface and
> download my script. Installing does work, and on a regular system we can
> go and boot into a ZFS-on-Root system.
>
> In bhyve I get the following, on reboot:
> -----
> freetest# vmrun.sh -d test10zfs -t tap1 -m 2048 test10zfs
> Launching virtual machine "test10zfs" ...
> Consoles: userboot
>
> FreeBSD/amd64 User boot, Revision 1.1
> (r...@freetest.digiware.nl, Tue Feb 11 10:03:58 CET 2014)
> \
> can't load 'kernel'
>
> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
> OK
> ------
>
> And there is no known way (to me) to educate the loader to understand
> zfs disks....
>
> Which loader is is used in booting?
>         a special bhyve-loader
>         the bootloader in the boot-partition.
>
> It seems this is the first one.
>
> If so I'm wondering if the grub-bhyve would be a trick to boot the
> Root-on-ZFS system....
>
> But then the first question is:
>         where do I find grub-bhyve
>
> Any suggestion is welcome...
>
> BTW: this is on a AMD system.
>
> BTW2: I read that there could be interest for a dedicated opteron-server
> to do bhyve development on....
> I'm more than willing to put my test server in a slot in our datacenter
> for people to do testing on.
> ----
> CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T Processor (3013.84-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x100fa0  Family = 0x10  Model = 0xa
> Stepping = 0
>
> Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
> Features2=0x802009<SSE3,MON,CX16,POPCNT>
>
> AMDFeatures=0xee500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
>
> AMDFeatures2=0x37ff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,WDT>
>
> --WjW
>
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