Re: Issues with GTX960 on CentOS7 using bhyve PCI passthru (FreeBSD 11-RC2)

2017-01-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > Hi, > > > > >> The problem appears to be in the area of assigning memory-mapped > > >> I/O ranges by bhyve for the VGA card to a region outside of the > > >> CPU's addressable space; i.e., bhyve does not check CPUID's > > >> 0x8008 AL value (0x27 for my CPU, which is 39 bits -- while >

Re: Issues with GTX960 on CentOS7 using bhyve PCI passthru (FreeBSD 11-RC2)

2017-01-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... > > > -Performance State : P0 > > > +Performance State : P8 > > > > Note sure what's happening here. > > Driver not kicking the card's BIOS into the right mode > to switch to dynamic power state selection? I suspect this is a failure to run the BIOS

Re: Issues with GTX960 on CentOS7 using bhyve PCI passthru (FreeBSD 11-RC2)

2017-01-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
IIRC the 367.44 version of the nvidia drivers do NOT support the Quadro 2000, you need to be using the 340.xx version of them. I ran into problems on native hardware. Also before you attempt to get VGA passthrough working it is best to make sure you can run native, have you tried running your

Re: dos in bhyve

2017-04-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi Andriy, > > > I wonder if anyone was able to run any DOS variant in bhyve. > > I've run vm86 mode in Linux but that doesn't really count :) > > > I tried FreeDOS using BHYVE_UEFI_CSM firmware, but it seems to just hang. > > Try looking at the CSM/BIOS debug output that is available on

Re: mounting vm disk from host

2017-03-03 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
This message was empty, did you have some specific question about mounting vm disk from host? > ___ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: vmx bug?

2017-05-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
This is a long standing issue with VMware ESXi, it effects Linux as well as FreeBSD and Windows. A couple of googles for things like https://www.google.com/search?q=esxi+guest+ethernet++order=utf-8=utf-8 Well lead you to several articles talking about this issue. I did not find any solutions

Re: PCIE card with USB ports

2017-05-15 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rajil Saraswat wrote this message on Sun, May 14, 2017 at 16:03 -0500: > > On 05/14/2017 12:40 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > Rajil Saraswat wrote this message on Sat, May 13, 2017 at 20:34 -0500: > > >> I am looking for a recommendation for an out-of-the-box working PCIE > > >> card with USB

Re: VNC stuff

2017-06-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hello Peter, and others, > Hi Zane, > > > I assume that means the VNC/fbuf stuff as well? Not seeing that that > > currently in 11-STABLE. > > Sure you don't mean 10-STABLE ? The uefi graphics code was committed > 11 months ago: > > >

Re: VNC stuff

2017-06-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > Bez?glich Zane C. B-H.'s Nachricht vom 12.06.2017 19:30 (localtime): > > On 2017-06-12 09:39, Peter Grehan wrote: > >> Hi Zane, > >> > >>> I assume that means the VNC/fbuf stuff as well? Not seeing that that > >>> currently in 11-STABLE. > >> >

Re: VNC stuff

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ] > Bez?glich Rodney W. Grimes's Nachricht vom 13.06.2017 03:02 (localtime): > > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > >> Bez?glich Zane C. B-H.'s Nachricht vom 12.06.2017 19:30 (localtime): > >>> On 2017-06-12 09:39, Peter Grehan

Re: bhyve.8 referencing non-existing vmm.4 [Was: Re: VNC stuff]

2017-06-15 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ] > Bez?glich Rodney W. Grimes's Nachricht vom 14.06.2017 00:40 (localtime): > > ? > >> I can confirm that the 302504 MFC (r304424) works with BSD guests. > >> Also the man page correctly was included in the MFC ? my fault. > >> > >> But I just

Re: VNC stuff

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Bez?glich Rodney W. Grimes's Nachricht vom 13.06.2017 03:02 (localtime): > > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > >> Bez?glich Zane C. B-H.'s Nachricht vom 12.06.2017 19:30 (localtime): > >>> On 2017-06-12 09:39, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Zane, > > > I assume that

Re: Bhyve and windows 2012/2016

2017-10-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello > > I'm trying to install Windows 2012 evaluation in bhyve. It looks like > neither HDD (ahci-hd) nor CD (ahci-cd) are available. What version of FreeBSD are you doing this on? uname -a? > Command is > > ??/usr/sbin/bhyve?? -c 2 -m 17179869184 -H -A -w -s 0:0,hostbridge?? -s

Re: Bhyve and windows 2012/2016

2017-10-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > Hello > > > > I'm trying to install Windows 2012 evaluation in bhyve. It looks like > > neither HDD (ahci-hd) nor CD (ahci-cd) are available. > > What version of FreeBSD are you doing this on? uname -a? > > > Command is > > > > ??/usr/sbin/bhyve?? -c 2 -m 17179869184 -H -A -w -s

Re: bhyve passthrough fails

2017-09-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi Farhan, > > bhyve: PCI device at 2/0/0 is not using the ppt(4) driver. > > Just noticed this myself: looks like a regression :( I'll see if I can > work it out and get a fix in. What is the state of bhyve in 10.4? Do we need to fire off some quick tests -- Rod Grimes

Re: Xeon E5 (PowerEdge 320) bailing out

2017-08-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > > On 08/28/2017 00:53, Aijaz Baig wrote: > > Trying to run Bhyve on a PowerEdge 320 system which DOES have a POPCNT > > instruction which shows support for VT-x support via EPT but I still get > > the this error there > > > > sh

Re: bhyve uses all available memory during IO-intensive operations

2017-12-01 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 02/12/2017 08:11, Dustin Wenz wrote: > > > > The commit history shows that chyves defaults to -S if you are > > hosting from FreeBSD 10.3 or later. I'm sure they had a reason for > > doing that, but I don't know what that would be. It seems to an > > inefficient use of main memory if you

Re: VNC and non-US keymap in bhyve

2017-11-04 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello, > > I use bhyve and have a problem with non-US keymap and the VNC server. > This is a bug that was reported at least to FreeNAS and was fixed a few > weeks ago according to the bug report here: > https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/24450 > > When will this fix come into FreeBSD? > How does

Re: Onboard USB controller passthrough

2017-11-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello, > > I have an Supermicro X10DRi-T motherboard which has 2 EHCI controllers > and 1 xHCI controller. I want to pass one of the EHCI controller to the > VM running Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the VM immediately quits when i pass > the USB controller. I am using vm-bhye to manage the VM's

Re: Storage overhead on zvols

2017-12-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > Dustin Wenz wrote: > > I'm not using ZFS in my VMs for data integrity (the host already > > provides that); it's mainly for the easy creation and management of > > filesystems, and the ability to do snapshots for rollback and > > replication. > > snapshot and replication works fine on the

Re: bhyve uses all available memory during IO-intensive operations

2017-12-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 20:02 Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > On 02/12/2017 08:11, Dustin Wenz wrote: > > > > > > > > The commit history shows that chyves defaults to -S if you are > > > > ho

Re: NFS alternatives (was: Re: Storage overhead on zvols)

2017-12-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi all, > > > Am 05.12.2017 um 17:41 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes > > <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>: > > In effect what your asking for is what NFS does, so use NFS and get > > over the fact that this is the way to get what you want. Sure you > > c

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

2017-12-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> 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

Re: Storage overhead on zvols

2017-12-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I'm not using ZFS in my VMs for data integrity (the host already provides > that); it's mainly for the easy creation and management of filesystems, and > the ability to do snapshots for rollback and replication. Some of my > deployments have hundreds of filesystems in an organized hierarchy,

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 2018-06-13 09:06, Marcelo Araujo wrote: > > 2018-06-13 14:54 GMT+08:00 Alexandru Elisei > > : > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is > >> able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation > >> Emulator provided by

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello, > > I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is > able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation > Emulator provided by ARM. > > I plan to submit the project for review, but before that I need to > validate the hypervisor on a hardware

Re: freebsd bhyve instance does not show kernel messages after boot screen

2018-06-15 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 14/06/2018 23:26, David P. Discher wrote: > > Try in /boot/loader.conf of the VM : > > > > console=userboot > > > > or after beastie drop to loader OK promot ?and try : > > > > set console=userboot > > > > I think 11.x should fall back to userboot in?bhyve if vidconsole of > > comconsole

Re: ena(4) is not in GENERIC, now default for some/all instances on AWS EC2

2018-01-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:14:55AM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Well, that might work, but I am curious why do we have all other network 40 > > or so drivers in the GENERIC but not this one. Considering significant > > portion of FreeBSD systems deployed these days are going to be running on

Re: bhyve and contention

2018-02-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello virtualizations, > > Please can anyone tell me what happens in the following scenarios: I can speculate on some of what may happen, this may not be exact, but should give you an idea. > 1. > freebsd-11 server, 5x freebsd-11 guests > The server has 32GB ram installed. it's an i7 so 8

Re: bhyve and contention

2018-02-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On 14/02/2018 10:18, Peter Grehan wrote: > >>> 2. > >>> In the following context, the server is the same but this time all five > >>> guests have -c 4 per guest, so bhyve is asking 12 more cores than that > >>> existing in hardware. Does the guest

Re: bhyve manager

2018-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > Tommi Pernila wrote: > > Hi, > > > > been happy with sysutils/iohyve > > https://github.com/pr1ntf/iohyve/blob/master/README.md > > is there a way to integrate it with sysutils/rtty, so that there is a > console log, and so multiple people can attach to the same console? > > right now i

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... > > Boot Failed? So windows never started. > > Your not having a shutdown problem your having a start up failure. > > > > What is the output of: > > file /vm/img/disk1.raw > > file /VM/distro/null.iso > > > > And do you really have /vm and /VM? Or is that a typo? You have not answered

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 27 Feb. 2018 5:07 pm, "wishmaster" wrote: > > > Boot Filed. UEFI Hard Drive > > Without parameter "-l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd" > bhyve does not start at all with error > > virtual machine cannot be booted. > > > Have you tried using the

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > > > --- Original message --- > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> > Date: 27 February 2018, 09:13:56 > > > > > ... > > > > > > Boot Failed? S

Re: Checking bhyve supported features (sysctls)

2018-08-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello, > > I'm looking for better ways to check for bhyve support / available features > without trying to scan through dmesg output. Yes, it would be very good to remove that, as it usually tries to grep a non-existent file /var/run/dmesg.boot that is not created until after vm_bhyve has

Re: Checking bhyve supported features (sysctls)

2018-08-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Text manually wrapped to 80, any broken quoting is my fault - rwg > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm looking for better ways to check for bhyve support / available > > > features without trying to scan through dmesg output. > > > > >Yes, it would be very good to remove that, as it usually

Re: Checking bhyve supported features (sysctls)

2018-08-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Text manually wrapped to 80, any broken quoting is my fault - rwg > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for better ways to check for bhyve support / available > > features without trying to scan through dmesg output. > > >Yes, it would be very good to remove that, as it usually tries > >to grep a

Re: Checking bhyve supported features (sysctls)

2018-08-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On August 16, 2018 5:28:05 PM GMT+01:00, "Rodney W. Grimes" > wrote: > >> > >> Text manually wrapped to 80, any broken quoting is my fault - rwg > >> > >> > > Hello, > >> > > > >> > > I'm looking for

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Are there issues with Current CEntos and bhyve? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure ther

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > > > Are there issues with Current CEntos and bhyve? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure there are, please look at > > > > > > > https://bugs.freeb

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Shawn Webb wrote: > > > > > > Are there issues with Current CEntos and bhyve? > > > > > > > > > > Sure there are, please look at > > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230453 > > > > > > > > Booting in UEFI mode works. > > > > > > This means we need an update to > > >

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > [dd] > > > > > > > > > > > > > Though it has a lot of features, it also has some short comings, > > > > > > like you can not spec a vm to be wired in memory, which IMHO is > > > > >

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > [dd] > > > > > > > > > > > > > Though it has a lot of features, it also has some short > > > > > > comings, like you can not spec a vm to be wired in memory, > > > > > > wh

Re: Checking bhyve supported features (sysctls)

2018-08-17 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> From: owner-freebsd-virtualizat...@freebsd.org > On Behalf Of Rodney W. Grimes > Sent: 16 August 2018 18:31 > To: Allan Jude > Cc: Matt Churchyard ; > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Checking bhyve supported features (sysctls) > > > On August

Re: access usb device from bhyve vm

2018-08-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I asked this on usb@, but might get a better bhyve perspective on this > list... > > Does anyone have thought about what it would take to support access to > individual usb devices "natively" from a bhyve vm? The best though on this, and note I have not done this with bhyve, but have done it

Re: on bhyve statistics

2018-08-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 9:38 PM Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > >> Currently, bhyve does not expose any of these statistics. All the > > stats > > > > available through bhyvectl --get-stats seem to be com

Re: on bhyve statistics

2018-08-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 8/28/18 3:37 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >>>> Currently, bhyve does not expose any of these statistics. All the stats > >>> available through bhyvectl --get-stats seem to be coming from the VMM, > >>> not from the userspace emulation. > >&g

Re: on bhyve statistics

2018-08-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
t;From conversations with Peter Grehan he expressed that bhyvectl is purely a diagnostics tool that should not be depended on by any other tools. If you want to do similiar things you should program to the libvmmapi interface, not bhyvectl. > -Anish > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:20 AM Ro

Re: on bhyve statistics

2018-08-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi list, > > I'm currently looking at getting the libvirt prometheus exporter[1] to > work with libvirt+bhyve. In its current state this doesn't work because > at least one of the API calls exposed by libvirt isn't implemented by > the libvirt bhyve driver - so I started looking at implementing

Re: Overcommitting CPUs with BHyve?

2018-07-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> What are people's experiences with overcommitting CPUs in BHyve? I have an > 8-core machine that often runs VMs totalling up to 5 allocated CPUs without > problems. But today I got greedy. I assigned 8 cores to one VM for a big > build job. Obviously, some of those were shared with the host.

Re: bhyve and freebsd memstick installer

2018-07-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello, > > context: freebsd-12-current server, amd64 > > I usually install a freebsd guest like this: > > sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 2 -m 4096M -t tap0 -d guest.img > -i -I FreeBSD-installation-dvd1.iso guestname > > I only have memstick.img - how do I either: > > 1. convert

Re: Call for testing bhyve cpu topology additions

2018-03-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> >>And as mentioned in the review, I'd also like to see your Windows > >> desktop guest test results with this change. > > > > I do not run any windows in bhyve as bhyve can not run the > > windows I use due to missing/broken ATA support. > > The person I was helping with bhyve windows

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> --- Original message --- > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> > Date: 27 February 2018, 10:28:37 > > > --- Original message --- > > > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-...@pdx.rh

Re: bhyve - windows7 installation

2018-03-01 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Harry Schmalzbauer writes: > > > Bez?glich Ludovit Koren's Nachricht vom 01.03.2018 08:22 (localtime): > >> > >> Hi, ... > > After connecting via VNC the vm boots from DVD and you see the setup > > program. You won't have mouse support, but

Re: Call for testing bhyve cpu topology additions

2018-03-10 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > There is a new version of the CPU topology review up at > > http://reviews.freebsd.org/D9930 > > > > I would like to ask that if people can test this and provide > > feedback that they do so. > > > >

Call for testing bhyve cpu topology additions

2018-03-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
There is a new version of the CPU topology review up at http://reviews.freebsd.org/D9930 I would like to ask that if people can test this and provide feedback that they do so. It has some undesired side effects on vm-bhyve and probably other down stream tools, I am in the process of

Re: Call for testing bhyve cpu topology additions

2018-03-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > I would like to ask that if people can test this and provide > > feedback that they do so. > > And as mentioned in the review, I'd also like to see your Windows > desktop guest test results with this change. I do not run any windows in bhyve as bhyve can not run the windows I use due to

Re: rumpkernel and bhyve: triple faults

2018-03-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 6 Mar 2018, at 9:28, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >> bios_crtc_base would be part of the isa legacy vga > >> controller card. Bhyve does not, at this time, or > >> in the near future expect to have, support for this > >> legacy device. > > >

Re: bhyve pci passthrough usb controller

2018-03-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
-- Start of PGP signed section. > Hi, .. > > I'm trying to pci passhthrough a usb controller to a bhyve windows 7 > virtualization. > When I start the virtual machine it freezes the entire system. See > console.log > To be clear the system runs without any problems without the pci > passthrough.

Re: bhyve and arp problem

2018-04-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Bez?glich Daniel Braniss's Nachricht vom 02.04.2018 16:58 (localtime): > > ? > >> > >> Are you trying to use the HOSTS ip address in the GUEST? > > > > the client is using the server?s /usr/local, which is mounted via nfs. > > I guess you have reasons to prefer nfs over nullfs. You can not

Re: bhyve and arp problem

2018-04-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On 2 Apr 2018, at 16:51, Rodney W. Grimes > > <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > >>> On 2 Apr 2018, at 15:33, Harry Schmalzbauer <free...@omnilan.de> wrote: > >>> > >>> Bez?glich Daniel Braniss's Nachricht vo

Re: bhyve and arp problem

2018-04-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On 2 Apr 2018, at 15:33, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > > Bez?glich Daniel Braniss's Nachricht vom 30.03.2018 13:16 (localtime): > >> hi, > >> this is my first attempt at bhyve, and so far all seems ok, except > >> in my guest, the mac address of the hosting keeps

Re: Issue encountered booting FreeBSD STABLE and CURRENT snapshots with EFI

2018-03-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Rodney W. Grimes > <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Rodney W. Grimes > >> <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: &g

Re: Issue encountered booting FreeBSD STABLE and CURRENT snapshots with EFI

2018-03-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Rodney W. Grimes > <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Rodney W. Grimes > >> <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: &g

Re: Issue encountered booting FreeBSD STABLE and CURRENT snapshots with EFI

2018-03-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Joe Maloney wrote: > > We narrowed the issue down to how vm-bhyve attaches a null.iso when starting > > the VM. > > > > What exactly are the contents of this null.iso? It sounds like we're touch "null.iso" -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0

Re: bhyve - windows7 installation

2018-03-01 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> >>>>> Rodney W Grimes <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> writes: > > >> >>>>> Harry Schmalzbauer <free...@omnilan.de> writes: > >> > >> > Bez?glich Ludovit Koren's Nachricht vom 01.03.2018 08:22 >

Re: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > ? > > --- Original message --- > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> > Date: 26 February 2018, 16:17:44 > > > > > Hi, colleagues. > > > > > > There is a server running with Windows Serv

Re: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi, colleagues. > > There is a server running with Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am attempting > launch this server in virtual environment as a back up. But there is one big > problem - I can not shutdown this server. > My first step was creating a VHD image with help of Disk2vhd. Then a >

Re: bhyve manager

2018-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi, > > What do folks use for their bhyve guest management? > > I have always spun bhyve guests up by hand but now I'm considering > streamlining the process. What do you use? Personally I use vm-byve with some local hacking on it to remove things like 16 character VM names and to allow me to

Re: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> --- Original message --- > From: "Peter Grehan" > Date: 27 February 2018, 20:40:52 > > > > > > But I think the bigger problem is that this is an MBR disk > > > with Windows 7 in it, I > > > do not believe that bhyve can run Windows 7 at this time. So let me correct

Re: bhyve - windows7 installation

2018-03-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> >>>>> Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> writes: > > > On 01/03/2018 16:06, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> Due to the design of the IOMMU you can only manage IO space in page > >> (4096 on x86) granually sizes. The device your tryin

Re: rumpkernel and bhyve: triple faults

2018-03-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello lists, > > I?m currently playing around with getting rump kernels built with > rumpkernel(7) running on FreeBSD?s bhyve(4). I?m using a custom boot loader > [1] which builds on some patches to bhyveload / user boot [2]. > > To test, I?m using a simple ?helloer? unikernel from the

Re: rumpkernel and bhyve: triple faults

2018-03-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Hello lists, > > > > I?m currently playing around with getting rump kernels built with > > rumpkernel(7) running on FreeBSD?s bhyve(4). I?m using a custom boot loader > > [1] which builds on some patches to bhyveload / user boot [2]. > > > > To test, I?m using a simple ?helloer? unikernel

Re: bhyve networking

2018-04-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ] > Hi Harry, > I?m simply using the ?vm? utility as in > > vm switch create public > vm switch add public igb1 > > That must make underlying calls to if config or equivalent as the bridge and > tap interfaces are created automatically. > > The

Re: bhyve networking

2018-04-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 > nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > groups: lo > $ ping 172.16.92.11 > PING 172.16.92.11 (172.16.92.11): 56 data

Re: bhyve networking

2018-04-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
1 netmask 0xff00 > nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > groups: lo > $ ping 172.16.92.11 > PING 172.16.92.11 (172.16.92.11): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 172.16.92.11: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.416 ms > 64 bytes from 172.16.92.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=6

Re: bhyve networking

2018-04-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > Paul Esson | Redstor Limited > t +44 (0)118 951 5235 > m +44 (0)776 690 6514 > e paul.es...@redstor.com > > > From: Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:33:57 PM > To:

Re: bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Can you tell us a bit about your set up, like are you using helper > > > scripts like libvirt? > > > To answer the question you asked when I run a vm with the CSM firmware it > > > works for me. > > > &g

Re: bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> > > Can you tell us a bit about your set up, like are you using helper > >> > > scripts like libvirt? > >> > > To answer the question you asked when I run a vm with the CSM fir

Re: bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Can you tell us a bit about your set up, like are you using helper scripts > like libvirt? > To answer the question you asked when I run a vm with the CSM firmware it > works for me. You should always be able to boot a vm that uses and boots with the non CSM uefi firmware with the CSM version

Re: is there a vCPU hard limit for bhyve guests?

2018-11-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi, > > On a host with hw.ncpu=48 I tried to start a bhyve guest with -c 24 and > it failed to start. So I tried -c 16 and it starts and runs as > expected. Any more than -c 16 fails to run. > > Is a maximum of 16 vCPU hardwired somewhere, and if so, why? Is there a > way to overcome the

Re: UEFI GOP: screen goes blank during boot after loader is finished

2018-11-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I'm just getting started using bhyve (on a 13-CURRENT host from Oct 28), and > for the work I'm doing need to use UEFI. However, I'm finding that when > booting > FreeBSD 12.0-BETA4 the screen goes blank as FreeBSD takes over the console > after the loader is finished. > > The command I'm

Re: UEFI GOP: screen goes blank during boot after loader is finished

2018-11-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > > On November 13, 2018 at 8:36:34 AM, Rodney W. Grimes > (freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net) wrote: > > > Since you are using uefi and specifying a graphics console with tcp=,wait? > your vm is waiting for a vnc connection to port 5900 to display the? > c

Re: UEFI GOP: screen goes blank during boot after loader is finished

2018-11-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:49 PM Kyle Evans wrote: > > > Good, good, so the loader <-> kernel transition would appear to be > > intact and information appears good at first blush. If you don't have > > time to dig into this, I'll try poking at it this weekend, but it > > looks to be either

Re: UEFI GOP: screen goes blank during boot after loader is finished

2018-11-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM Subbsd wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 7:22 PM Rodney W. Grimes > > wrote: > > > > > > Uh oh, ok, thats not what I was thinking of then. I do not have any >

Re: vm-bhyve swap space usage

2018-11-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi Folks, > > I've recently started using vm-bhyve-1.2.3, on FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 and > noticed three processes, one for each VM, using swap as indicated by top -w. > The processes are running the "vm" script as follows - /bin/sh > /usr/local/sbin/vm -tf _run {vm name}. > Is this

Re: New bhyve user

2018-09-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > > ?So if one guest launch a lot of cpu hungry thread it could "starve" > > the others guests with less thread usgin cpu time. > > As far as what I heard here on this forum, you should NOT overcommit the > vCPUs. You seemed to have heard incorrectly. There is little to no issues

Re: The status of docker

2019-01-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 22/01/2019 20:01, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > >> Am 22.01.2019 um 20:48 schrieb Grzegorz Junka >> >: > >> 2. A docker container in a jail with no native linux kernel, docker > >> is running completely in FreeBSD environment > >> > >> 2 would be most

Re: Any plans to increase the maximum number of virtual CPUs above 16?

2018-11-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I was reading the bhyve man page and noticed that it said the maximum > number of virtual CPUs is limited to 16. With AMD Epyc being out with 32 > cores and 64 threads per CPU and being able to have 2 of them in one > system this number seems rather low by modern standards. So you can run 4

Re: vmrun.sh - how to pin vcpu to realcpu?

2018-11-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi, > > As subject - how can I pin a VM that used 4x cpu (-c 4) to realcpu? > I know that it's the -p option but am unclear on the syntax. > > vmrun.sh gives the following for -p > > -p: pass-through a host PCI device at bus/slot/func (e.g. 10/0/0) > > but how to express this for vcpus and

Re: Bhyve with UEFI edk2-stable201903 and CSM support - debugging the crash

2019-04-04 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I've spent some time trying to figure out where and why the UEFI 2.70 > firmware is crashing when built with CSM support under Bhyve. > > The first thing I noticed is that the code that builds the E820 table > doesn't appear to be finding the location of the EBDA at 0x40E: the > first entry

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
-- Start of PGP signed section. > Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried to run FreePBX under bhyve? That's what I get trying to > > start the vm after a successful automatic install from the ISO image: > > > > Boot Failed. EFI DVD/CDROM > > Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter > >

Re: emulated PCI device BAR size

2019-04-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:44 PM Jason Tubnor wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun., 24 Mar. 2019, 6:35 am Chuck Tuffli, wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:15 AM Chuck Tuffli wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > So my question is how to best fix this. The easiest would be to add a > >> > check to the

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
-- Start of PGP signed section. > Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > [dd] > > > > > > > root@mfsbsd:~ # find /mnt/ -name grubx64.efi > > > /mnt/EFI/centos/grubx64.efi > > > > > > Who is to blame, bhyve or FreePBX's installer? > > >

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > [dd] > > > > > > > > > > > > > root@mfsbsd:~ # find /mnt/ -name grubx64.efi > > > > > /mnt/EFI/centos/grubx64.efi > > > > > > > > > > Who is to blame,

Re: Updating uefi-edk2-bhyve

2019-03-30 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 3/29/19 9:29 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > That, iirc, would be the SMBIOS version of ed2k, which yes should > > be updated if infact the newer ed2k has a new SBIOS implementation, > > if it is still 1.00 implementaton then this needs to be left &g

Re: Updating uefi-edk2-bhyve

2019-03-29 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 3/25/19 3:59 PM, D Scott Phillips wrote: > > > > Yep, makes sense to me. For either of these changes we would want to get > > test converage on basically all functionality, so might as well take > > both changes at once. > > > One thing I noticed is that the SMBIOS information claims it's

Re: Updating uefi-edk2-bhyve

2019-03-30 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 3/30/19 1:08 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > I do not know what the above is, could you elaborate for me? > > What is OVMF and what is its relation to bhyve? > > > OVMF is the Open Virtual Machine Firmware: it's open source (BSD > licensed) firmwar

Re: Updating uefi-edk2-bhyve

2019-03-31 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On 3/30/19 2:37 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> On 3/30/19 1:08 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >>> > >>> So it is a edk2 implementation, and can you point me at > >>> the bhyve version of it? The Qemu/KVM version is rather > >>

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > > > As I stated earlier bhyve is missing percistant efi variables, > > > and that is most likely the reason that VirtualBox just works > > > and bhyve does not. > > > > > > Probably you well find in your VirtualBox directory a > > > file that is used to store

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