Re: floppy image in bhyve

2016-01-20 Thread Adam Vande More 
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Sergey Manucharian  wrote:

> Yes, that a good idea especially taking into account that I have many
> variables. I'm trying to migrate Windows 7 on an encrypted volume from
> VBox to bhyve.
>

Another option would be to migrate to GELI, possibly on a ZVOL if
available.  Then tie bhyve windows vm startup/shutdown scripts to
unlock/lock device as needed.



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Adam
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Re: floppy image in bhyve

2016-01-20 Thread Sergey Manucharian 
Excerpts from Marie's message from Thu 21-Jan-16 01:56:
> > In this particular case it doesn't work. I have a floppy image with
> > BitLocker encryption key. I copied that file to an iso image, but
> > Windows doesn't like it.
> 
> As a workaround: How about plugging in a USB floppy drive and do a
> pass-through of it?

Yes, that a good idea especially taking into account that I have many
variables. I'm trying to migrate Windows 7 on an encrypted volume from
VBox to bhyve.

The advantage of a floppy drive is that it's drive letter in Windows is
always "A:". I believe the ecnryption key is tied to it too.

Currently I'm going to decrypt it first to make sure that the migration
itself works. Then will follow in particular your advice. The USB
contrell pass-trough is a must for me since I need many USB devices in
that virtualized Windows.

Thanks,
Sergey

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Re: floppy image in bhyve

2016-01-20 Thread Peter Grehan 

Hi Sergey,


It there a way to use a floppy image in bhyve?


 Not currently - there is no floppy controller emulation.


Could it be used with one of virtio-blk or ahci-hd?


 Possibly, though I've not tried it.


I need to present it to MS Windows 7 at boot time.


 If this is for a Windows driver, you could potentially extract the 
files from the floppy image and then put it on an ISO (or even put it on 
the repacked install ISO if this is during installation) and use ahci-cd.


later,

Peter.

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