Re: how to for making bhyve images (using makefs + mkimg)

2014-10-30 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alfred Perlstein wrote this message on Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 22:37 -0700: > On 10/29/14 9:34 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >So, Michael Dexter prodded me to document how I'm doing it, so I put > >up a blog post at: > >http://blog.funkthat.com/2014/10/building-bhyve-images-using-makefs-and.html > > >

Re: how to for making bhyve images (using makefs + mkimg)

2014-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 10/29/14 9:34 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: So, Michael Dexter prodded me to document how I'm doing it, so I put up a blog post at: http://blog.funkthat.com/2014/10/building-bhyve-images-using-makefs-and.html It's a quick guide on how to build images using makefs and mkimg. Only time you need

Re: Help with Bhyve VM install

2014-10-30 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Susan Stanziano wrote: > > I have a system installed with releng10.1 (with tests configured) and am > trying to create a VM under Bhyve. > > I want to know which image to use for the VM install, specifically will > the : > > FreeBSD-10.1-RC3-amd64-bootonly.iso > >

Re: bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
>> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. >> OK show >> LINES=24 >> boot_serial=1 >> console=userboot >> currdev=zfs:repository: >> interpret=OK >> loaddev=zfs:repository: >> prompt=${interpret} >> rootdev=disk0p2 >> smbios.bios.vendor=BHYVE >> OK > > How about if you set

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2014-10-30 Thread Susan Stanziano
- Forwarded Message - From: "NGie Cooper" To: "Susan Stanziano" Cc: freebsd-test...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:03:56 PM Subject: Re: Help with Bhyve VM install On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Susan Stanziano wrote: > > > I have a system installed with re

Re: bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Andrea, Mmmm Peter, the -e seems to be totally ignored. Ok, looks like the ZFS probe code will override those :( Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK show LINES=24 boot_serial=1 console=userboot currdev=zfs:repository: interpret=OK loaddev=zfs:repository: pr

Re: bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
>> Env variables can be set from the bhyveload command line using "-e >> =". Now, I'm not sure that currdev and rootdev can be set that >> early in the boot, but it's worth a try e.g. add these: >> -e currdev="disk0p2:" -e rootdev="disk0p2:" > > I’ll try with the -e on the command line but I thi

Re: bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
>> >> I did some experiments with set currdev and got the kernel loaded but >> then the machine just hangs. >> >> Please give me some advice :-) > > This was reported by Craig Rodrigues a while back - the email thread is at > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAG=rPVd5OQ1Gw6q-e94Ffnk_zPxkFv

Re: bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
>> OK set currdev=disk0p2: >> OK set rootdev=disk0p2: >> OK boot >> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0xed9008 data=0x117d28+0x176650 >> syms=[0x8+0x137988+0x8+0x1515f8] >> \ >> = > > Is the disk for this VM a ZFS zvol? > No, it’s a standard “IMG” as usual. There’s a ZFS inside of the VM. > You mi

Re: bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Andrea, I had some wonderfully working machines with bhyve with a plain 10.0-p4. I just upgraded to 10.1-RC3 and now the VMs won’t boot anymore: they get just stuck with "unable to load kernel”. After some trials and errors I think I traced it to user boot getting confused by a ZFS partition

Re: bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-10-30 16:12, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Hello guys. > > I had some wonderfully working machines with bhyve with a plain 10.0-p4. I > just upgraded to 10.1-RC3 and now the VMs won’t boot anymore: they get just > stuck with "unable to load kernel”. After some trials and errors I think I

bhyve machine not starting after upgrading

2014-10-30 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
Hello guys. I had some wonderfully working machines with bhyve with a plain 10.0-p4. I just upgraded to 10.1-RC3 and now the VMs won’t boot anymore: they get just stuck with "unable to load kernel”. After some trials and errors I think I traced it to user boot getting confused by a ZFS partitio

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Hypervisor RNG and enumeration

2014-10-30 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Adding the bhyve guys. El 29/10/14 a les 6.19, Andy Lutomirski ha escrit: > Here's a draft CommonHV spec. It's also on github: > > https://github.com/amluto/CommonHV > > So far, this provides a two-way RNG interface, a way to detect it, and > a way to detect other hypervisor leaves. The latter

Re: Automatically running /usr/tests on stable/10 branch under Jenkins

2014-10-30 Thread Mateusz Guzik
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:21:00PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 09:09:48PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > > Are you aware of e.g. stress2 by pho? > > > > https://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/index.html