On 2014-06-19 09:42, John wrote: > Hello list, > > I've looked and looked for bhyve info and worked examples all in one place > but my google-fu seems to be lacking today, so I'm asking here. > I'm running stable-10 r262917 host. Can one now have the following bhyve > instances? > > 1. openbsd (which versions?) > 2. ubuntu latest > 3. opensuse latest > > Can these be installed from the console? If so, how? > > I'm using virtualbox right now and it is very very very slow with freebsd > guest. Are there optimisations I need for bhyve? The host runs zfs. There's > lots of memory (192GB but lots of that seems swallowed by zfs!) > > 4. Can a virtualbox instance be converted to a bhyve instance? > > thanks! >
Firstly, for running FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Redhat, I have entries in the handbook that walk you through it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host-bhyve.html OpenSuse would just be a matter of changing the grub config as required. If the guest happens to use grub2, grub-bhyve can usually just pickup the config file and work without any heavy lifting on your part, compared to CentOS 6 which still uses grub1 and requires injecting a bunch of kernel boot parameters. You can run some versions of OpenBSD, but you need to use a 'flashrd' style image. However, recent work in -CURRENT now allows running all modern versions of OpenBSD using the standard ISO to do the install etc. If you install the qemu-img tool, you should be able to convert your VirtualBox image into a raw disk image, and then you would be able to boot that in bhyve. -- Allan Jude
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