Re: Bhyve. Unable install Windows 7/Server 2008R2

2017-12-04 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi, bhyve -c 2 -s 0,hostbridge -s 3,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/my_zroot/VM/img/win7/disk0 For win7/2k8*, the sector size presented to the guest has to be forced to 512 bytes i.e. for the ahci-cd slot, the config would look like: -s 3,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/my_zroot/VM/img/win7/disk0,sectorsize=512

Re[2]: Bhyve. Unable install Windows 7/Server 2008R2

2017-12-04 Thread wishmaster
Hi, as I said the problem is still here even without ahci-hd device. Below the command: bhyve -c 2 -s 0,hostbridge -s 3,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/my_zroot/VM/img/win7/disk0 -s 4,ahci-cd,/VM/distro/win7.iso -s 10,virtio-net,tap0 -l bootrom,/VM/distro/BHYVE_UEFI_20160526.fd -m 4G -H -w -s

Re: Storage overhead on zvols

2017-12-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Dustin Wenz wrote: > I'm starting a new thread based on the previous discussion in "bhyve uses > all available memory during IO-intensive operations" relating to size > inflation of bhyve data stored on zvols. I've done some experimenting

Re: Storage overhead on zvols

2017-12-04 Thread Allan Jude
On 12/04/2017 18:19, Dustin Wenz wrote: > I'm starting a new thread based on the previous discussion in "bhyve uses all > available memory during IO-intensive operations" relating to size inflation > of bhyve data stored on zvols. I've done some experimenting with this, and I > think it will be

Re: Storage overhead on zvols

2017-12-04 Thread Dustin Marquess
I doubt it's best practice, and I'm sure I'm just crazy for doing it, but personally I try and match the ZVOL blocksize to whatever the underlaying filesystem's blocksize is. To me that just makes the most logical sense. -Dustin On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Dustin Wenz

Storage overhead on zvols

2017-12-04 Thread Dustin Wenz
I'm starting a new thread based on the previous discussion in "bhyve uses all available memory during IO-intensive operations" relating to size inflation of bhyve data stored on zvols. I've done some experimenting with this, and I think it will be useful for others. The zvols listed here were

Bhyve. Unable install Windows 7/Server 2008R2

2017-12-04 Thread wishmaster
Hi, guys, what happened with bhyve after 11.1-RELEASE. I am unable install neither Windows 7 nor Windows Server 2008R2. I have attempted with HDD as raw file, ZFS dev - without success. root@XXX: uname -a FreeBSD XXX 11.1-STABLE FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE #0 r325503: Tue Nov 7 13:38:44 EET 2017