Re: FreeBSD 13 on bhyve freezes under load

2021-05-03 Thread Michael Gmelin
On Mon, 3 May 2021 13:14:53 +0200 Christian Stærk wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I am not using ZFS and have plenty of free diskspace: > Filesystem Size    Used   Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ada0p2    190G 92G 83G    52%    / > > top looks like this on a not-h

Re: FreeBSD 13 on bhyve freezes under load

2021-05-03 Thread Michael Gmelin
ZFS arc usage). Also, make sure you're not low on diskspace (these are the two most common issues I encountered with hanging bhyve VMs - out of non-virtual memory and out of diskspace of the host machine filesystem). Some basic info on the host and your VM configuration might also h

Re: Call for testing: sysutils/uefi-edk2-bhyve update for upcoming edk2-stable202102

2021-02-15 Thread Michael Reifenberger
in time for that. -- Rebecca Cran ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Gruß ---

Re: UEFI -l com1, stdio floods console/Windows Server SAC with "rdmsr to register 0x198 on vcpu..."

2021-01-17 Thread Michael Dexter
orted MSRs. If redirected, should these be logged?  Please file a PR (https://www.freebsd.org/support/bugreports.html)  A simple workaround is to use an nmdm or pty device for com1 output. PR filed and indeed! https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252768 All the best

UEFI -l com1,stdio floods console/Windows Server SAC with "rdmsr to register 0x198 on vcpu..."

2021-01-16 Thread Michael Dexter
be logged? Thank you! Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Update to the sysutils/uefi-edk2-bhyve and related ports

2020-12-06 Thread Michael
Hi Am 7. Dezember 2020 00:00:31 MEZ schrieb Rebecca Cran : >On 12/6/2020 2:15 AM, MR wrote: > >> >> RELEASE prints nothing. >> >> DEBUG gives: >> >> [tio 10:11:42] tio v1.32 >> [tio 10:11:42] Press ctrl-t q to quit >> [tio 10:12:19] Connected >> ... >> ProtectUefiImageCommon - 0xBF776B40 >>   -

Re: bhyve with wlan0

2020-11-29 Thread Michael Gmelin
> On 28. Nov 2020, at 19:30, Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > >  >> >> As far as I remember it works just fine other than the standard caveats >> about bridging over wireless interfaces which involve some odd >> inconsistencies that could crop up from time to time especially with like >>

Re: VM Panic with FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-362037-amd64-vm.raw

2020-06-13 Thread Michael Dexter
On 6/12/20 9:56 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: The official FreeBSD snapshot FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-362037-amd64-vm.raw appears to panic as a guest under 12.1p5 and 12.1p1. A participant on #bhyve reports that this revision may fix it: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision=date=362065

VM Panic with FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-362037-amd64-vm.raw

2020-06-12 Thread Michael Dexter
. Abort trap I have tried both the unmodified image and it truncated to 10G. Full output below. Any suggestions? Thank you! Michael Dexter Loading kernel... /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x15a2f10 data=0x140 data=0x1b7f58+0x4470a8 syms=[0x8+0x17bb60+0x8+0x19bc58] Loading configured

Re: Bhyve help

2020-05-05 Thread Michael Gmelin
You might want to read https://blog.grem.de/ayvn It also covers using vm-bhyve to manage vms and will explain some things about configuring the network. > On 6. May 2020, at 01:55, Brandon helsley wrote: > > Well how do i add a tap to the bridge the VM is on as well as my physical nic > >

Re: bhyve win-guest benchmark comparing

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
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Re: [PATCH] Untangle TPR shadowing and APIC virtualization / Make Win guests on Bhyve _fast_

2019-12-28 Thread Michael Reifenberger
uct vlapic *vlapic); + uint64_t vlapic_get_apicbase(struct vlapic *vlapic); int vlapic_set_apicbase(struct vlapic *vlapic, uint64_t val); void vlapic_set_x2apic_state(struct vm *vm, int vcpuid, enum x2apic_state s); -- Homepage: https://www.yamagi.org Github: https://github.com/yamagi GPG

Re: Windows 2019 server

2019-04-03 Thread Michael Reifenberger
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Re: Windows 2019 server

2019-04-03 Thread Michael Reifenberger
zvol" disk0_name="disk0" disk1_type="nvme" disk1_dev="zvol" disk1_name="disk1" disk2_type="ahci-cd" disk2_name="disk2.img" ... (disk0 is the one I'm trying to use here, disk2 is the ISO) Greetings --- mike Gruß --- Michael Reifenber

Re: Windows 2019 server

2019-04-02 Thread Michael
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NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-07 Thread Michael Reifenberger
dev="zvol" disk1_name="disk1" disk1_type="ahci-cd" disk1_name="disk2.img" ... And Installed windows on disk0. Disk0 is found as expected, disk1 is not. The devicemanager reports an error: https://imgur.com/a/zrHx23y Shouldn't

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-15 Thread Michael Tuexen
ely affordable for a complete system. > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/OverDrive1000 > says that it runs FreeBSD already 8-} I'm running head on it and it works pretty stable. Just replaced the HDD with an SSD. Best regards Michael > > -- > p...@opsec.eu

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-14 Thread Michael Dexter
On 6/13/18 12:37 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I believe the Chromebook SNOW meets the criteria, not exactly a "board" but I have one on loan from Michael Dexter that was originally purhased to support ARMv8 bhyve work. Peter Grehan handed one to Ruslan at AsiaBSDCon a few years back

Re: Centos7 uefi boot problem with bhyve after update

2018-05-04 Thread Michael Reifenberger
the Centos boot loader automatically if this is the only other one installed. http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ Thanks for the hint! I installed rEFInd into /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT This workaround works. greetings --- Mike Gruß --- Michael Reifenberger ___

Re: Centos7 uefi boot problem with bhyve after update

2018-05-04 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Zitat von Jason Tubnor <ja...@tubnor.net>: On 2 May 2018 at 19:58, Michael Reifenberger <m...@reifenberger.com> wrote: Hi, Im running a Centos7 bhyve VM under FreeBSD-11 (latest stable). The VM boots using UEFI: uefi-edk2-bhyve-0.1 Centos was installed and ist booting fine:

Centos7 uefi boot problem with bhyve after update

2018-05-02 Thread Michael Reifenberger
. Is this a known problem? How to resolve? BTW: A new installation of a recent Centos fails after the installation/reboot with the same error. Other Linux distros (Ubuntu) seem to be affectet too... Greetings --- Mike Gruß --- Michael Reifenberger ___ freebsd

Re: syncing bhyve instances

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Gmelin
else left (data files on disk, non-system, non-package, non-config) use regular rsync (or zfs send if your setup permits - I'd stick with rsync). Yours, Michael p.s. Make sure to include monitoring (especially replication latency and data integrity) > > -- > J. >

[Differential] D5473: ATA/ATAPI6 device emulation in bhyve

2017-11-02 Thread editor_callfortesting.org (Michael Dexter)
editor_callfortesting.org added a comment. In my testing, this appears to be based on FreeBSD 10.1, which is well supported by AHCI emulation. Supporting back to 5.0 or earlier would make this much more useful. REVISION DETAIL https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5473 EMAIL PREFERENCES

Re: host, bhyve vm and ntpd

2017-10-21 Thread Michael Voorhis
Ian Lepore writes: > Beyond that, I'm not sure what else to try.  It might be necessary to > get some bhyve developers involved (I know almost nothing about it). NTPD behaves more normally on uniprocessor VMs. A FreeBSD bhyve-guest running on a freebsd host will select a different timecounter

[Differential] D5473: ATA/ATAPI6 device emulation in bhyve

2017-08-14 Thread editor_callfortesting.org (Michael Dexter)
editor_callfortesting.org added a comment. iateaca, Several people would like to see this through. Please add a copyright and license to the work. Thanks! dexter REVISION DETAIL https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5473 EMAIL PREFERENCES

bhyvecon Tokyo 2017

2017-03-01 Thread Michael Dexter
Reuschling: Browser-based RDP, VNC, and SSH access using Guacamole Michael Dexter: FreeBSD bhyve/AMD64 Status Report More information is at http://bhyvecon.org I hope you can make it! Michael Dexter bhyve Volunteer ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org

Windows Desktop OS only show one CPU on bhyve even though 2-4 are assigned

2016-12-05 Thread Michael Braig
this as well, anybody who can advise me on how Windows will recognize the additional CPUs? I am using an HP ML110 G7 with Xeon CPUs. Regards Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: bhyve and bootable usb image

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Dexter
or virtio-blk and using grub-bhyve, guest does not boot up. What is the proper way to use bootable image file? Will it work at all or it is not (yet) supported? Can someone please show me a how-to? What grub-bhyve and device.map syntax are you using for both? Michael

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-05 Thread Michael Reifenberger
5 for MSI/MSI-X [0.790097] virtio-pci :00:0a.0: irq 36 for MSI/MSI-X [0.790895] vdd: unknown partition table [0.791026] virtio-pci :00:08.0: irq 37 for MSI/MSI-X [0.791040] virtio-pci :00:08.0: irq 38 for MSI/MSI-X [0.792815] vde: unknown partition table [0.7929

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-04 Thread Michael Reifenberger
s having the same overhead? No - virtio-blk should be better. - Can ahci-hd be used paravirtualized in Centos? Not quite sure what you mean here: virtio-blk is the paravirtualized disk interface, and it works fine with Centos. I mean: If I use ahci-hd in the bhyve config, is Centos7 smart eno

Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-04 Thread Michael Reifenberger
ZFS-zvol's or files in regular ZFS-directories? - Are the virtio-blk or ahci-hd disks having the same overhead? - Can ahci-hd be used paravirtualized in Centos? Thanks in advance! All in all it looks quite promising! Greetings --- Mike Gruß --- Michael Reifenberger

[Differential] D5473: ATA/ATAPI6 device emulation in bhyve

2016-07-21 Thread editor_callfortesting.org (Michael Dexter)
editor_callfortesting.org added a comment. Support for FreeBSD 6 and older, even if for historical/academic purposes, is a topic that keeps coming up. Legacy systems come in all shapes and sizes and I can think of at least one point-of-sale vendor that spans generations of FreeBSD and other

Re: bhyve graphics support

2016-05-27 Thread Michael Dexter
and Windows up through 2016 TP5. The results have been great but I'm sure there are edge cases that need addressing. Please do test this with high CPU counts, RAM allocations and anything else you can think of. All the best, Michael Dexter ___ freebsd

Re: iocage no longer supported?

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Gmelin
onvered > about this decision. When I visit https://github.com/iocage/iocage is > now says "**No longer supported. iocage is being rewritten in a > differnt language." Does anybody have any details? > https://github.com/iocage/iocage/commit/3f394561a3dde55cd3ac7911

wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve feature matrix

2016-02-28 Thread Michael Dexter
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bhyvecon 2016 Tokyo Invitation

2016-02-28 Thread Michael Dexter
Dear list members and AsiaBSDCon attendees, The third annual bhyvecon Tokyo will take place March 11th just after the BSD Vendor Summit and is free of charge. Information and registration is at http://bhyvecon.org/ I hope to see you there and hope this message is not an intrusion! Michael

Re: docker info?

2015-07-28 Thread Michael Dexter
by older versions of FreeBSD with Linux images, though they will support FreeBSD images with some risk of ABI mismatch. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization

Re: docker info?

2015-07-28 Thread Michael Dexter
An error occurred trying to connect: Get https:///var/run/docker.sock/v1.19/info: tls: oversized record received with length 20527 borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $ Do you have the ca_root_nss package installed? Is the Docker daemon running? Michael ___ freebsd

Re: xen_kernel, console and X11

2015-05-05 Thread Michael Dexter
I can get is a partial DomU boot with it always rebooting the Dom0 at a different stage of DomU boot. Note that it instantly panicked if the Dom0 has 8GB RAM which may relate to the 4GB mentioned in the patch. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization

Re: xen_kernel, console and X11

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Dexter
with a white cursor. From the Wiki document: Known Limitations Suppressed FreeBSD kernel messages during boot Inconsistent behavior under X11 Michael Dexter ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: High load average inside idle FreeBSD guest running on bhyve

2014-10-02 Thread Michael Gmelin
-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Michael Gmelin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list

wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve is now official

2014-08-26 Thread Michael Dexter
of bhyve.org. One thought is to host even-more-miscellaneous bhyve-related content such as social media and videos. Thank you everyone who has contributed to this content. Michael Dexter bhyve Volunteer ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: CFT: vmrc Virtual Machine rc script

2014-02-28 Thread Michael Dexter
as another images. Where this error coming from? From a typo on line 6: :( vm_console=nmdm rather than: vm_console=nmdm This is now fixed and thank you for testing it! Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: CFT: bhyve AMD snapshot

2014-02-10 Thread Michael Dexter
of how he is building the official releases. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

CFT: bhyve AMD snapshot

2014-02-08 Thread Michael Dexter
this. So far I have had luck with my humble Athlon(tm) II Neo N36L Dual-Core Processor (1297.87-MHz K8-class CPU). All the best, Michael Dexter bhyve volunteer ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-02-08 Thread Michael Dexter
person coming in at six messages and a total of 10 from the key bhyve developers on a list for all FreeBSD virtualization technologies. Please reconsider this strategy else a complaint will be registered with the list administrators. Michael Dexter bhyve volunteer

Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-02-08 Thread Michael Dexter
mailing list etiquette guidelines and you will find many corrections to his statements. Friend of yours? Michael Dexter bhyve volunteer ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization

Re: CFT: Very rough draft of PetiteCloud 0.2.4 (Linux as a host)

2014-02-06 Thread Michael Dexter
-resolving hosts, proposals of marketing materials and my personal favorite, a request for a bhyve developer to sign an NDA to see these. Please hesitate before you write and determine if this is the correct list and your post is in accordance with the above policies. Michael Dexter bhyve volunteer

Re: CFT: Very rough draft of PetiteCloud 0.2.4 (Linux as a host)

2014-02-04 Thread Michael Dexter
May I suggest you take this all to a personal blog? Michael On 2/2/14 2:22 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though FreeBSD will always be my preferred OS for both personal and professional use it is sad to say in today's world if you do not support Linux and your run on Unix-like OS's

Re: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org

2014-02-03 Thread Michael Gmelin
etiquette for a reason, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html ). Thank you. -- Michael Gmelin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization

Re: best way to add www to wheel

2014-01-29 Thread Michael Dexter
Wrong mailing list? Michael On 1/29/14 1:20 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have the following line in my pkg-install: pw groupmod wheel -m www The reason is I have files that are created by a user account that also gets made but are modified using it or tomcat... these particular files

Re: BHyVe - ESXi comparison

2014-01-28 Thread Michael Dexter
On 1/28/14 4:10 PM, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: That's a lot of interesting input. Do try the ahci-hd VirtIO and may I suggest you update BHyVe to the current bhyve? It is the first point on the FAQ: http://bhyve.org/faq/ Michael ___ freebsd

CFT: vmrc Virtual Machine rc script

2014-01-27 Thread Michael Dexter
for greatly improving this script and Allan at ScaleEngine for testing it and providing resources for bhyve's overall improvement. Thank you for testing bhyve! Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: bhyve with Xorg/kde

2014-01-25 Thread Michael Dexter
that PC-BSD 10.0 is a great way to run bhyve given that it is is simply based on FreeBSD 10.0. Warden/bhyve integration is reportedly in the works along with FreeNAS 10.0 bhyve integration due in a month or two. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization

Re: rc.d scripts for starting BHyve from rc.d

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Dexter
On 1/23/14 8:01 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Except for the consoles petitecloud does it much more smoothly... May I kindly suggest that you not use this list for PR or to slam the work of others? Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Public Service Announcement: The name is bhyve

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Gmelin
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:46:06 -0800 Michael Dexter edi...@callfortesting.org wrote: On 1/24/14 2:41 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: Haters gonna hate? Lack of attention to detail != hate. I guess you didn't see the phoronix.com article on bhyve a few months ago. :) They pulled the worst

Re: Public Service Announcement: The name is bhyve

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Dexter
On 1/24/14 2:53 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: Recent bhyve progress is quite impressive by the way. The curse of making a list is... Tycho definitely deserves a huge thanks for his work and we all owe our thanks the original vendor that supported Neel and Peter's work on bhvye because they: 1

Re: Linux on BHyVe in 10.0-RELEASE

2014-01-23 Thread Michael Dexter
. Michael On 1/22/14 11:26 PM, Jonas Bülow wrote: Yes, if using zvol is the same thing as using ZFS for the guest image. I tried setting DEVTYPE to with the same result. /J On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Peter Grehan gre...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi Jonas, Installation starts

Re: bhyve: reboot stops vm

2014-01-20 Thread Michael Gmelin
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Re: Real Device with BHyve

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Gmelin
. - afaik the same thing the Dexter's vm0 script does now) and could then boot into it just fine. -- Michael Gmelin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send

Re: [PATCH] Support for S5 (soft power off) in bhyve

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Dexter
On 12/27/13 8:46 AM, John Baldwin wrote: Can this be triggered from the host to shut down an unresponsive VM? It cannot. I will look into that. I've implemented this. You rock. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [PATCH] Support for S5 (soft power off) in bhyve

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Dexter
John, This is awesome. Can this be triggered from the host to shut down an unresponsive VM? If so, syntax? Michael On 12/23/13 11:43 AM, John Baldwin wrote: To that end, I've implemented support for a few more registers (such of which are non-optional in ACPI) including the Reset

Re: break to debugger in bhyve

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Berman
. On 12/16/13, 5:03 PM, Neel Natu neeln...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Michael Berman michael.ber...@tidalscale.com wrote: Unfortunately, this does not seem to work with the bhyve /dev/console device. Works fine for me once I compile with the ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER

Re: break to debugger in bhyve

2013-12-15 Thread Michael Berman
Unfortunately, this does not seem to work with the bhyve /dev/console device. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 15, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 12/16/13, 8:27 AM, Michael Berman wrote: I’ve tried the various kernel and sysctl options, and it may be the way I am

Re: Upcoming FreeBSD 10.x + bhyve ...

2013-12-04 Thread Michael Dexter
interface with: cu -l /dev/nmdm0B -s 9600 nmdmN is a 32bit in so you should have plenty to work with. The pty style of console is more involved and I am experimenting with it. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Upcoming FreeBSD 10.x + bhyve ...

2013-12-02 Thread Michael Gmelin
in r258668, quite interested if this works ok for you. -- Michael Gmelin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr

Re: bhyve - non *bsd guests

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Dexter
required Error in initializing VM That is a new one to me and given that you have FreeBSD VMs working, I personally don't know what might trigger this. I trust this is bare-metal and not under say, VMware nested VT-x? Hopefully the developers will chime in. Michael

Re: RFD: Remote console access to bhyve guest instances?

2013-11-14 Thread Michael Dexter
Dee, Your needs are not unique and a solution is already in the works. Thank you for your use case examples and usability concerns. When you say write this addition, are you suggesting you have solid development resources to contribute to this effort? All the best, Michael Dexter bhyve

Updated bhyve-script for FreeBSD, FreeNAS, pfSense, OpenBSD and Linux VMs

2013-11-12 Thread Michael Dexter
make copies of a provisioned VM for stress testing. Reminder: bhyve requires Extended Page Tables (EPT) which accompany POPCNT in your dmesg and should available on any Intel Core i* CPU. Feedback welcome! Michael Dexter bhyve Volunteer ___ freebsd

Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines

2013-11-12 Thread Michael Dexter
On 11/12/13 1:07 PM, Abhishek Gupta (LIS) wrote: Thanks for the response Michael! I understand now. Just wanted to let you know that Hyper-V Gen2 VMs do not have a virtual FDD. On the topic of passing a virtual FDD to a VM for a passed-through PCI* card BIOS update, a bhyve developer wrote

Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines

2013-11-11 Thread Michael Dexter
Abhishek, My single use case this last few years has been for BIOS updates and given that one could use PCI pass-through to expose say, an LSI storage controller to a virtual machine, there may indeed be a use case. Michael Dexter On 11/11/13 10:19 AM, Abhishek Gupta (LIS) wrote: Hi everyone

Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines

2013-11-11 Thread Michael Dexter
this but it is a possible use case of what you describe. Also mind you I never want to see another floppy-based BIOS again but they are still out there. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-Rel: Jail-rc startup of vnet jails with new configuration syntax

2013-11-07 Thread Michael Gmelin
syntax. Have you considered using sysutils/ezjail (the de-facto standard for managing jails under FreeBSD right now) or a similar port (sysutils/jailrc, sysutils/qjail etc.)? -- Michael Gmelin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-Rel: Jail-rc startup of vnet jails with new configuration syntax

2013-11-07 Thread Michael Gmelin
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:44:32 +0100 Michael Gmelin free...@grem.de wrote: On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:26:10 +0100 Kristen Nielsen k...@krn.dk wrote: Hi freebsd-virtualization list I am trying to figure out how to start configured jails within FreeBSD 9.1Release at boot time. I am

rc-style script for bhyve VM provisioning and management

2013-11-03 Thread Michael Dexter
you can at bhyve to expose any remaining flaws prior to the FreeBSD 10.0 release. All the best, Michael Dexter ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any

Re: rc-style script for bhyve VM provisioning and management

2013-11-03 Thread Michael Gmelin
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:18:09 -0700 Michael Dexter edi...@callfortesting.org wrote: Hello all from the FreeBSD 20th Anniversary Party in San Francisco, I have published a bhyve virtual machine provisioning and management framework to simplify the building and deploying of bhyve VMs during

rc.d script for running bhyve in tmux

2013-11-01 Thread Michael Gmelin
service bhyve stop virt2 # stop individual service bhyve stop # stop all (by default ctrl-b d detaches from tmux). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Gmelin #!/bin/sh # # $FreeBSD: mgmelin # # PROVIDE: bhyve # REQUIRE: LOGIN # KEYWORD: nojail # # # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable

Re: [SOLVED] Re: bhyve vmrum vm_setup_memory: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2013-09-28 Thread Michael Dexter
On 9/27/13 3:07 PM, Miguel Clara wrote: Btw, I guesss FreeBSD is the only guest type supported so far, are there plans for linux/windows? Whats the best place to get updates on this? Experimental Linux and OpenBSD soon. Windows to be determined. Michael

Re: CFT: bhyve AMD SVM

2013-08-25 Thread Michael Dexter
On 8/25/13 1:04 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Please, avoid creating a new thread by following up another one and changing the subject. Or remove the In-Reply-To from your email. You are correct. Stale header info. Sorry. Michael ___ freebsd

CFT: bhyve AMD SVM

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Dexter
: http://high5.nl/mirrors/bhyve/r254677-svm/ Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: installing 9.1-RELEASE guest on byhve

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Dexter
My mistake: 9-STABLE which is 9* (incl. 9.1) with VirtIO drivers. You can relatively easily backport VirtIO drivers to 9.1 if you really need 9.1 Yep. Linux and Windows support will be great and at least one is has been demonstrated. Michael On 6/23/13 5:34 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote

Re: installing 9.1-RELEASE guest on byhve

2013-06-23 Thread Michael Dexter
://bhyve.org for information and installation scripts. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Best VM setup for FreeBSD

2013-06-06 Thread Michael Berman
I run multiple VMs using VMware Fusion. VMware has *nix support in their Workstation product. On 6/6/13 7:26 AM, TJ t...@melodicninja.co.uk wrote: I have been looking into VirtualBox. My biggest hurdle at the moment is getting multiple hosts on one machine and setting up the VRDE to use

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Sierchio
types for *NIX OSes. I hope that's true. - M On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 05/13/13 11:52, Michael Sierchio wrote: I think should be encouraged. We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro

Re: getting involved in bhyve projecct

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Dexter
systems as guests. All the best, Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: question on bhyve + 9-stable

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Dexter
experience out there. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: question on bhyve + 9-stable

2012-12-31 Thread Michael Dexter
On 12/30/12 9:36 AM, marcos alves wrote: I also made a step-by step setup using zvols based on Michael Dexter's scripts. Maybe they will be usefull if you trying to understand or improve the scripts in the future. Check it out in http://www.emulsoft.com/bhyve-ufs.txt . I saw that. I didn't