Re: Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-25 Thread Peter Grehan
That's bhyve colliding with GEOM. There was a thread a while back about being able to exempt certain block devices from being tasted for iSCSI LUN usage - bhyve will probably need something similar. Is this different from the kern.geom.notaste sysctl des@ added recently? Yes. I've not trie

Re: Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-25 Thread symbolics
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:30:29AM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > > (1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half > > expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work. > > The loader work isn't too bad to get this going, but the bhyve work is > quite a bit mor

Re: Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-25 Thread Peter Grehan
(1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work. The loader work isn't too bad to get this going, but the bhyve work is quite a bit more effort since the i386 kernel makes a lot more assumptions about the envi

Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-25 Thread symbolics
Hi A few things I've noticed playing with Bhyve & vmrun.sh (1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work. (2) VirtIO on a raw disc device seems to have some problems. I tried installing using the -BETA1 amd64 I