Re: openbsd 6.0 or 6.1 guest on freebsd-12 (current) host

2017-09-07 Thread Alan Somers
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Jason Tubnor wrote: > On 6 September 2017 at 22:15, tech-lists wrote: > >> >> >> Have you encountered anything on openbsd in a bhyve that you've found >> not to work? >> >> > As Thomas mentioned, there is/was a bug with

Re: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve

2017-12-27 Thread Alan Somers
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Cross posted to virtualization@, hackers@ and questions. > > I have a dual boot machine (windows 7 64 bit and fbsd 11.1-RELEASE [amd64]) > and want to run the windows partition as a vm in bhyve how would I go

Overcommitting CPUs with BHyve?

2018-07-24 Thread Alan Somers
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. I also

Re: Overcommitting CPUs with BHyve?

2018-07-24 Thread Alan Somers
An anonymous BHyve expert has explained things to me off-list. Details below. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Alan Somers wrote: > 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 >

Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread Alan Somers
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:05 AM tech-lists wrote: > > Hi, > > Apart from the performance benefit as per the section for bhyve in the > handbook, can the size of the zfs-backed guest: > > 1. be resized from the host? > 2. does the guest need to be inactive? > 3. can linux guests (or even windows

Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread Alan Somers
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:24 PM tech-lists wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > [...] > > Thanks for the example, I've saved it. > > Ok just one other question, which I might have found the answer to, or > might not. I'm new to this virtualising on zfs

Re: [RFC] Adding a Rados block driver to bhyve

2020-03-09 Thread Alan Somers
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 4:32 AM Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Hi all, > > And sorry for crosspoing three groups, but the answer can/could be a mix > of things to do in these three areas. > > I have a prototype of bhyve running on Rados/Ceph working: >

Re: [RFC] Adding a Rados block driver to bhyve

2020-03-10 Thread Alan Somers
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:59 AM Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 9-3-2020 14:46, Alan Somers wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 4:32 AM Willem Jan Withagen > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> And sorry for crosspoing three groups, but the answer can/could be a mix >&g

Re: [RFC] Adding a Rados block driver to bhyve

2020-03-10 Thread Alan Somers
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:28 AM Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 10-3-2020 17:21, Alan Somers wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:41 AM Willem Jan Withagen > wrote: > >> On 10-3-2020 16:15, Alan Somers wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:59 AM Willem Jan

Re: [RFC] Adding a Rados block driver to bhyve

2020-03-10 Thread Alan Somers
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:41 AM Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 10-3-2020 16:15, Alan Somers wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:59 AM Willem Jan Withagen > wrote: > >> On 9-3-2020 14:46, Alan Somers wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 4:32 AM Willem Jan

Re: nbdkit on FreeBSD

2020-06-18 Thread Alan Somers
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:53 PM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > Does anybody use nbdkit on FreeBSD? It's a fancy NBD (Network Block > > Device) server. It runs fine on FreeBSD, but there's no port. If > anybody > > is interested, I'll make a port for it. However,