On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
>> <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Joe Maloney <jmalo...@ixsystems.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > We narrowed the issue down to how vm-bhyve attaches a null.iso when
>> >> > starting
>> >> > the VM.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> What exactly are the contents of this null.iso? It sounds like we're
>> >
>> > touch "null.iso"
>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 3 22:55 /home/vmbhyve/.config/null.iso
>> >
>> > It is litterly a 0 byte file. This is just there to appease windows
>> > installer that you have a cd drive.
>> >
>> > You can test with bhyve yourself this problem by adding:
>> > -s 3:0,ahci-cd,${vm_dir}/.config/null.iso
>> > to your bhyve command.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for that! A couple hundred printf's later, I think this might
>> be a firmware bug or something of the sort (?).
>>
>> In this loop [1], the address at 'dp' is getting immediately clobbered
>> by the efi_lookup_devpath on every iteration, so we end up looking at
>> basically all of the partitions and this null.iso unfortunately meets
>> this criteria [2] for removable media with no media present.
>> Therefore, we detect absolutely no disks.
>>
>> The only candidate in efi_lookup_devpath [3] is the firmware itself
>> having overwritten the devpath at that address. We can confirm this
>> with a printf just after the efi_lookup_devpath- the pointer it's
>> returning is in fact exactly match 'dp' every single time.
>>
>> Is there a newer/different firmware you can try? This seems like
>> really peculiar behavior for a firmware to be exhibiting.
>
> What happened to the boot device on the hd?
> There should be another -s x:0, ahci-hd drive that it boots from.
> -s 4:0,ahci-hd,${vm_dir}/${vmname}/disk0.img
>
Right, it's there but we think it's removable media with no media
present because of the above-mentioned clobbering by the firmware. We
could probably work around it for this specific case, but I don't know
if that's a great idea- there be snakes here...
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