Re: increasing bhyve VM_MAXCPU

2021-05-18 Thread John Doherty via freebsd-virtualization
On 18 May 2021, at 19:21, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> I'm experimenting with bhyve VMs with more than 16 vCPUs on FreeBSD >> I began working on a machine with only eight CPU cores/threads, so >> rather than trying to increase VM_MAXCPU, I tried to decrease it, which >> seemed to work fine. My

Re: resizing aarch64 image on arm64

2021-04-06 Thread John-Mark Gurney
ed. The growfs(7) rc script is run at first boot to size up the root fs as needed. It can always be run manually later via: service growfs onestart if/when the size of the disk changes... Hmm, just noticed that growfs(7) isn't linked from growfs(8), guess I need to fix that. --

Re: resizing aarch64 image on arm64

2021-04-06 Thread John-Mark Gurney
growfs md1p3# grow ufs Note that mdconfig may output a different md device than md1, use that instead. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." signatur

Re: vm-bhyve No disk(s) present to configure

2021-03-16 Thread John Doherty via freebsd-virtualization
Thanks to all who responded. For the record, the solution was to add this: disk0_type="virtio-blk" to my /vmm/fbsd1/fbsd1.conf file. I also added that to my /vmm/.templates/freebsd-zvol.conf. On 16 Mar 2021, at 8:01, John Doherty via freebsd-virtualization wrote: Hi, I

vm-bhyve No disk(s) present to configure

2021-03-16 Thread John Doherty via freebsd-virtualization
Hi, I am trying to get started with vm-bhyve and getting a little stuck. I am sure there are things I don't understand here so I hope you will bear with me. I am using a machine with an AMD FX-8370E eight-core CPU, running 12.2-RELEASE-p4. The machine boots from a ~60GB SATA SSD which is

Re: Warm Migration feature for bhyve - review on Phabricator

2021-01-28 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Willem Jan Withagen wrote this message on Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 01:42 +0100: > On 25-1-2021 19:42, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Matt Churchyard wrote this message on Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:46 +: > >> -Original Message----- > >> From: John-Mark Gurney >

Re: Warm Migration feature for bhyve - review on Phabricator

2021-01-25 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Matt Churchyard wrote this message on Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:46 +: > -Original Message- > From: John-Mark Gurney > Sent: 25 January 2021 06:21 > To: Matt Churchyard > Cc: Elena Mihailescu ; > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Warm Migrat

Re: RHEL virtualization

2021-01-25 Thread John Kennedy
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 03:14:53PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: > At work, we have RHEL (-ish; some RHEL, some CentOS, some OEL). Mostly v7, > some v8. Since I'm doing the Covid work-from-home telecommute, I'm trying to > recreate some of my work infrastructure while trying to plan a bi

Re: Warm Migration feature for bhyve - review on Phabricator

2021-01-24 Thread John-Mark Gurney
n host1 > * send a new snapshot > * initiate the migration of memory/device data > * start guest on host2 > > Are there any major complications here I'm not aware of other than the > requirement to pause the guest and kick off the state migration as two > separate calls? There'

RHEL virtualization

2021-01-23 Thread John Kennedy
At work, we have RHEL (-ish; some RHEL, some CentOS, some OEL). Mostly v7, some v8. Since I'm doing the Covid work-from-home telecommute, I'm trying to recreate some of my work infrastructure while trying to plan a bit towards the future (migrating a lot of VMs to Azure). What I'd like to

Re: resizing a FreeBSD-12.1 vm on Azure

2020-12-23 Thread John Kennedy
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 01:48:09PM +, Wei Hu via freebsd-virtualization wrote: > Hello, > > You can use resize option on Azure portal to increase the CPU and RAM of your > VM. I believe you don't need to shut down the VM. Once you start the > resizing, Azure will take care of rebooting the

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-21 Thread John-Mark Gurney
fo in exactly how your system is setup... If you could provide more concrete information about what interfaces you are using, and what IPs are configured on what interfaces (or VMs), that'd be helpful. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 &

Re: When is a switch not a switch?

2020-10-20 Thread John-Mark Gurney
nk.tap.up_on_open helps w/ this)... I have heard (and that is the way I do that), that you have to put the host IPs on the bridge0 interface, and not the em0 interface. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bhyve configuration changes up for review

2020-08-11 Thread John Baldwin
ts a bunch of configuration variables just as the parser of the flat config file does. There might need to be some additional logic for a nice UCL syntax for things like choosing PCI slots if an explicit one isn't given, etc. but that should be doable. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26035 -- Jo

Re: Restricting IP ranges for guests over tap devices

2020-08-08 Thread John-Mark Gurney
IP address? I assume that these addresses are assigned via DHCP server, otherwise if you are launching the VM's w/ known static IP's, you could use pf's anchor directive, and each start/stop of a VM, update the rule for that tap's anchor. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: patch to make vboxvfs work again

2020-05-10 Thread John-Mark Gurney
at they compile libraries w/o the kernel headers and then link those files into the kernel module wrapper... I did notice that we mistakenly still have a prototype for bcmp in sys/systm.h even though that function get's #defined to a builtin instead... > On 5/9/20, John-Mark Gurney wrote: &g

patch to make vboxvfs work again

2020-05-09 Thread John-Mark Gurney
. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." Index: virtualbox-ose/files/patch-src_VBox_Additions_freebsd_vboxvfs_Ma

Re: bhyve: TRIM support in AHCI controller

2020-04-12 Thread John-Mark Gurney
; > I have updated my patch to add TRIM support to the bhyve block interface > here: > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21707 > > I am working on an update to the virtio driver, to make FreeBSD guests > able to TRIM if the hypervisor supports it as well:

Re: bhyve: passthrough SMART info from host nvme controller

2020-03-20 Thread John-Mark Gurney
r the process was locked down, it doesn't provide additional security, as any attacker could just open it up, and do the operation... So, I'm really confused as to what the benefit of not opening it at the start is.. > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 2:59 AM John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > >

Re: bhyve: passthrough SMART info from host nvme controller

2020-03-18 Thread John-Mark Gurney
something like pci_passthru.c does in passthru_init, and open /dev/nvme0 in pci_nvme_init? Or am I missing something? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." __

Re: RFC: in-guest CPU tick counters

2020-01-02 Thread John-Mark Gurney
n the host if these cpu cycle counters are exposed to all users, which is the default. The counters should be restricted on who has access to them, and only allowing root, or the owner of the guest vmm to access them. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579

Re: sysutils/grub2-bhyve: CURRENT build breaks on "gets" security hole

2019-10-09 Thread John D Groenveld
rning. Assume it is - always declared, since it is required by C89. */ -#undef gets -_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead"); - #if @GNULIB_FOPEN@ # if @REPLACE_FOPEN@ # if !(defined __cplusplus && defined GNULIB_NAMESPACE) John groenv...@acm.org ___

Re: New video BIOS for bhyve

2019-08-01 Thread John Baldwin
s before it worked. This is pretty impressive work! Would you be able to post these patches to a public repository, e.g. on github or gitlab or some such? That would really help with review and allow others to assist with the work as well. -- John Baldwin __

New "bhyve" bugzilla component

2019-06-06 Thread John Baldwin
bugmeister@ has kindly added a new "bhyve" component for base system bugs. It would be great going forward for new bhyve-related bugs to use this component. Fixing the component of open bugs might also be useful if you are updating them to add a comment, etc. -- Jo

Re: Windows 10 guests fail to boot when attempting to passthrough network card

2019-05-21 Thread John Baldwin
fix the root >> issue at >> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/compare/master...bsdjhb:bhyve_passthrough_barsize > > Could you please factor out the white space changes and do that > seperately and sooner, it clouds the S/N in this review a bit. I can pull those out, but

Re: Windows 10 guests fail to boot when attempting to passthrough network card

2019-05-21 Thread John Baldwin
s does indeed size BARs in parallel). For pass-through devices we aren't currently correctly disabling access to a BAR when the guest disables it in the PCI command register which in turn trips the assertion when using a Windows guest, but in general we need to be honoring

Re: 12.0-RELEASE und kvm/qemu using on AMD EPYC

2019-02-11 Thread John Nielsen
> On Feb 11, 2019, at 6:32 AM, Christian Kratzer wrote: > > I am running freebsd vm on debian 10 buster with libvirt/kvm/qemu. > > I have several kvm hosts in the cluster. Some with various intel xeon and > others with AMD EPYC 7301 cpu. > > FreeBSD vms upto 11.2-RELEASE-p9 boo fine on all

Re: The status of docker

2019-01-23 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jan 22, 2019, at 11:54 PM, Sergey Zakharchenko > wrote: > > Hello there guys, > >> Not quite. I took over the docker freebsd port. Currently I am trying to >> change him to moby project on GH. > > Jochen, I wish you the best of luck. As a couple of cents, and on > behalf of Digital

Re: The status of docker

2019-01-23 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jan 23, 2019, at 11:26 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> On Jan 22, 2019, at 11:54 PM, Sergey Zakharchenko >> wrote: >> >> Hello there guys, >> >>> Not quite. I took over the docker freebsd port. Currently I am trying to >>> chang

Re: CFT: Reload LDTR after #VMEXIT on AMD-v in bhyve

2018-10-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 10/15/18 10:11 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 10/15/2018 12:23 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> That panic doesn't really make sense. :( The patch only changes behavior >> when you are actually running a guest, it doesn't affect anything in the >> vmm.ko initialization. &g

Re: CFT: Reload LDTR after #VMEXIT on AMD-v in bhyve

2018-10-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 10/11/18 1:04 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 10/11/2018 3:02 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >> Can someone using bhyve on an AMD host test this patch? Just booting a >> guest to multiuser is probably sufficient testing: >> >> https://githu

CFT: Reload LDTR after #VMEXIT on AMD-v in bhyve

2018-10-11 Thread John Baldwin
Can someone using bhyve on an AMD host test this patch? Just booting a guest to multiuser is probably sufficient testing: https://github.com/bsdjhb/freebsd/commit/97323364e196900548f5293ac97bfb22b8a2ba72.patch Thanks. -- John Baldwin

Re: Bhyve guest boot error, Buffer I/O error on dev vda1, logical block 0, lost async page write

2018-08-27 Thread John-Mark Gurney
uota that prevents a dataset/zdev, or it's descendants from growing larger, or you could have refreservation or reservation set which limits the space that other datasets can consume.. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been

access usb device from bhyve vm

2018-08-24 Thread John Hein
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? ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [HyperV-2016] urandom performance issue...

2018-08-21 Thread John-Mark Gurney
iki.freebsd.org/HyperV ! This is likely the same issue as: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230808 If you're having troubles w/ the host freezing, this should probably still be investigated as even w/ the excessive locking, it should never freeze. -- John-Mark Gurne

Re: Passthrough not working with OpenBSD nor NetBSD

2018-08-09 Thread John Baldwin
Tx per the commit log in revision 280725. We could perhaps try to provide a "fake" INTx interrupt that doesn't work, but I'll have to think about how to implement that. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://l

Re: Passthrough not working with OpenBSD nor NetBSD

2018-08-08 Thread John Baldwin
ut with OpenBSD and a Intel NIC. Then I added the Broadcom NIC > since I figured that maybe it's a driver issue. > I'm running bhyve on 11.1-RELEASE-p11. > > Any ideas? You have to use MSI interrupts for pass-through devices for bhyve. Those errors look as if the guests are trying to u

Re: Overcommitting CPUs with BHyve?

2018-07-24 Thread John-Mark Gurney
lso don't know his work load, or vCPUs per VM... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://li

Re: bhyve panic on netcup root server (vmx enabled)

2018-06-19 Thread John Baldwin
On 6/15/18 11:22 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On 6/15/18 4:44 AM, richard bader wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i try to install a virtual host on a virtual root-server (netcup.de) >> >> I've enabled the VMX-Options on the root-server. >> >> I've followed the ins

Re: bhyve panic on netcup root server (vmx enabled)

2018-06-15 Thread John Baldwin
x9c > #5 0x8030202c at btext+0x2c > Uptime: 1s > > Any ideas to get it working or is it just not possible. This indicates a bug in the ACPI tables generated by bhyve to give to the guest. Try setting the environment variable 'BHYVE_A

Re: bhyve -g gets killed by EPIPE

2018-04-10 Thread John Baldwin
141. I interpret it as signal 13, EPIPE. FWIW, for the debug server I made the sockets disable SIGPIPE to avoid killing the guest if the debugger dies. The -g sockets probably need to disable SIGPIPE as well. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebs

Re: Cross-compiling socat

2017-09-25 Thread John-Mark Gurney
long time ago.. Hope this helps. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https:/

Re: PCIE card with USB ports

2017-05-14 Thread John-Mark Gurney
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 controller. They all should just work. The driver interface is standardized and should just work no mater what card you pick. --

Re: Boot Physical Windows in bhyve

2017-04-30 Thread John-Mark Gurney
ual drive > and then to bhyve img. Have you just tried to point the disk image at your HD? This should "just work" as zvol (which is one way to run a VM) works, and a disk isn't any different... bhyve doesn't have a format, it's just raw disk images.. -- John-Mark Gurney

VirtualBox won't build from ports

2017-01-26 Thread John Klos
r code 70 Stop. make[6]: stopped in /usr/ports/lang/python3 *** Error code 1 Stop. ... Thanks, John Klos ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any

Re: pptdevs option crashes system

2016-05-17 Thread John Baldwin
ces for pass through post-boot rather than using the loader.conf option. E.g.: # devctl set driver pci0:11:0:0 ppt Currently there's no way to undo this, you can can 'set driver' to a "native" driver if one exists. -- John Baldwin ___

Re: ZFS subvolume support inside Bhyve vm

2016-03-21 Thread John Nielsen
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 5:31 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > Сергей Мамонов wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Yes - zvols looks awesome. But what driver you use for it? > > virtio-blk. > >> And what >> about disk usage overhead in guest? > > ufs on zvol is faster, either in the parent or a

Re: mount bhyve image

2016-03-07 Thread John
partition, it might be MBR instead, which would be md0s1, etc. Thanks for the confirmation, thats useful info. -- John ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe

mount bhyve image

2016-03-06 Thread John
, -- John ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

patch to improve use of ZFS volumes with vmrun.sh

2016-01-14 Thread John Dickinson
"virtio disk device volume \"${virtio_diskdev}\" does not exist." +echo "Please create it" + exit 1 +fi fi if [ ! -r ${virtio_diskdev} ]; then regards John John Dickinson http://sinodun.com Sinodun Internet Technologies

Re: FreeBSD 11 - Bhyve - Spoof MAC address

2016-01-04 Thread John Nielsen
> On Jan 4, 2016, at 9:32 AM, James Lodge wrote: > > Hi All, > > > I'm just getting started with Bhyve. So far everything is working as > expected. My original goal was to be running Ubuntu 12.04 i386 as I need it > for a particular project. One issue I'm having is MAC

Re: BAR and pci passthrough

2015-12-22 Thread John Baldwin
if you want to truly > >passthrough the BAR to the guest. > > > >best > >Neel > > > >> -- > >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > >> ___ > >> freebsd-virtua

Re: adding diskspace to a bhyve instance

2015-11-30 Thread John-Mark Gurney
you have a single UFS fs, w/ the root as the last partition/fs on the disk, simply grow the disk, and then you can run "service growfs start", and it just works... This will work on any system, not just VMs... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579

Re: adding diskspace to a bhyve instance

2015-11-20 Thread John
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 02:42:50PM -0500, Manas Bhatnagar wrote: On 19/11/15 12:20 PM, John wrote: Hello list, What's the best way of increasing the space of a bhyve guest instance? Would it be via growfs? Inside or outside of the vm? Or would it be better to truncate another chunk of space

adding diskspace to a bhyve instance

2015-11-19 Thread John
Hello list, What's the best way of increasing the space of a bhyve guest instance? Would it be via growfs? Inside or outside of the vm? Or would it be better to truncate another chunk of space and refer to it in /etc/fstab? thanks, -- John

Re: Python on FreeBSD is slower than on Linux

2015-11-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
are some steps I can perform to > > speed up the python to work not slower than on Debian. > > > > I have found in Google the similar question: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-python/2012-June/004306.html so > > it has an interest

error running grub-bhyve with -S

2015-10-22 Thread John Nielsen
I’m running bhyve on an Intel machine running FreeBSD 11-CURRENT, updated a few days ago. I have a Debian 8.2 VM that has been running fine but now I’d like to add a PCI pass-through device. Unfortunately, when I add the required “-S” flag to my grub-bhyve command line it doesn’t work: #

Re: Are the sched_choose() or tdq_choose() functions called after returning from an interrupt?

2015-09-09 Thread John Baldwin
andlers are limited in what they can do and must often defer work to other threads that they explicitly schedule (such as via a taskqueue). -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-vi

Re: What is the sequence of context switches when an IPI is received?

2015-09-09 Thread John Baldwin
d a context switch to another thread is performed via the checks in userret() and/or ast(). This is how IPI_AST is used. It has a NULL handler and is only sent to trigger the side effects in userret() in case the thread is executing in userland. -- John Baldwin _

Re: bhyve: fix bhyve warning CTASSERT

2015-08-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
__CTASSERT(x, y)typedef char __assert ## y[(x) ? 1 : -1] +#define__CTASSERT(x, y)typedef char __assert ## y[(x) ? 1 : -1] \ + __unused #endif -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225

Re: troubles booting OpenBSD 5.7 or NetBSD 6.1.5 w/ grub2-bhyve

2015-07-29 Thread John-Mark Gurney
John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:36 -0700: I'm trying to run either Net or Open for some testing, and I'm not having luck. After first figuring out that the README on github doesn't include that you need to include the boot device to load the files from, I

troubles booting OpenBSD 5.7 or NetBSD 6.1.5 w/ grub2-bhyve

2015-07-28 Thread John-Mark Gurney
,Topology,PCXC,PNXC Structured Extended Features=0x8BMI1 SVM: NP,NRIP,VClean,AFlush,DAssist,NAsids=65536 -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has

Re: bhyve: bhyveload, bhyve, bhyvectl --destroy

2015-06-03 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Andriy Gapon wrote this message on Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:10 +0300: On 03/06/2015 02:04, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Andriy Gapon wrote this message on Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 21:15 +0300: I guess you are running bhyve through the shell script vmrun.sh? I am doing everything by hand. Correct

Re: bhyve: bhyveload, bhyve, bhyvectl --destroy

2015-06-02 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Andriy Gapon wrote this message on Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 21:15 +0300: On 02/06/2015 19:49, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Andriy Gapon wrote this message on Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 14:20 +0300: I am very new to bhyve, so sorry if I am asking something silly or obvious. I am using bhyve to speed up my

Re: bhyve: bhyveload, bhyve, bhyvectl --destroy

2015-06-02 Thread John-Mark Gurney
? Hmm... I'm not seeing that here... I just scp a new kernel into the vm, install it, and run shutdown -r now which drops bhyve back to loader, and loads the new kernel... I've been doing this quite successfully over the last few months... I am running a month old HEAD though... -- John-Mark

Re: can we get some interaction between halt/reboot and bhyve?

2015-05-24 Thread John-Mark Gurney
various rc.d scripts to run, and you can use that to make sure all your bhyve instances are shutdown... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd

Re: bhyve code question, pci_virtio_net.c

2015-05-16 Thread John-Mark Gurney
for these MAC addresses? Depends, if NetApp gave us permission to use them here, then we might as well keep using them. gnn would be the persion to talk to about this.. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have

Re: Bhyve storage improvements (was: Several bhyve quirks)

2015-03-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:47 AM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: I've always assumed virtio driver emulated driver so it didn't occur to me to try ahci-hd. I've just merged to FreeBSD stable/10 branch set of bhyve

Re: How to connect ssh and /dev/nmdm devices Was:( Re: Native Linux guest in Bhyve (no grub2-bhyve) status? )

2015-01-20 Thread John-Mark Gurney
that would present a modem device that could be used w/ tip or cu and connect to an RFC2217 server on the back end giving you complete remove access to all settings of the serial port, but haven't gotten around to doing that yet... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579

Re: Boot OpenBSD with bhyve and libvirt automatically.

2015-01-06 Thread John-Mark Gurney
? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization

Re: backups of bhyve images

2014-12-10 Thread John-Mark Gurney
... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization

Re: backups of bhyve images

2014-12-10 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Pete Wright wrote this message on Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:40 -0800: On 12/10/14 11:29, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Pete Wright wrote this message on Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 15:44 -0800: On 12/08/14 15:30, Craig Rodrigues wrote: (3) When you want to backup the VM, do a zfs snapshot take take

Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD

2014-12-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zbee...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Neel Natu neeln...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zbee...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to integrate this patch into 10.1_RC3 and I failed. Is there a

backups of bhyve images

2014-12-08 Thread John
and backup-over-ssh routine. thanks, -- John ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD i386 guest doesn't see console...

2014-12-03 Thread John-Mark Gurney
} smbios.bios.vendor=BHYVE Any ideas? Oh, I did verify that uart0 is functional by logging into the system and doing: echo foobar /dev/cuau0 So, it's not like the console is not working, it's clearly a problem w/ the kernel deciding to use it as console.. -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: FreeBSD i386 guest doesn't see console...

2014-12-03 Thread John-Mark Gurney
, it's not just that flag that's the issue.. I also just did a diff between the amd64 and i386 /boot dir, and besides the expected, boot blocks and loader differing, the only differences are if_faith_load got removed and ata and apm hints are now present.. -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: FreeBSD i386 guest doesn't see console...

2014-12-03 Thread John-Mark Gurney
John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:50 -0800: I also just did a diff between the amd64 and i386 /boot dir, and besides the expected, boot blocks and loader differing, the only differences are if_faith_load got removed and ata and apm hints are now present.. Don't

FreeBSD i386 guest doesn't see console...

2014-12-02 Thread John-Mark Gurney
= 18253611008 (17408 MB) avail memory = 16573952000 (15806 MB) Event timer LAPIC quality 400 ACPI APIC Table: BHYVE BVMADT [...] uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: console (9600,n,8,1) I can provide more if you'd like... -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: 'repz' instruction not supported.

2014-11-20 Thread John Baldwin
access to some device? -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: bhyve remote kgdb does not support kernel modules...

2014-11-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, November 15, 2014 1:15:23 pm John-Mark Gurney wrote: Julian Elischer wrote this message on Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 00:23 +0800: On 11/15/14, 5:43 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 01:37 -0800: So, I got remote kgdb working w

Re: RFC: Enabling VIMAGE in GENERIC

2014-11-19 Thread John-Mark Gurney
) - display an XvImage hmm.. nope... jail has something about vnets, but not nearly enough to be useful... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd

bhyve remote kgdb does not support kernel modules...

2014-11-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
on how to fix this? Thanks. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: bhyve remote kgdb does not support kernel modules...

2014-11-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 01:37 -0800: So, I got remote kgdb working w/ bhyve, but kernel modules aren't loaded... I'm getting: (kgdb) bt #0 kdb_enter (why=0x8102ee88 panic, msg=value optimized out) at ../../../kern/subr_kdb.c:444 #1

Re: bhyve remote kgdb does not support kernel modules...

2014-11-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Julian Elischer wrote this message on Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 00:23 +0800: On 11/15/14, 5:43 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 01:37 -0800: So, I got remote kgdb working w/ bhyve, but kernel modules aren't loaded... I'm getting: (kgdb) bt

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 It's

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

2014-10-29 Thread John-Mark Gurney
for getting bhyve running on AMD! :) -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: NATed or Private Network Setups

2014-10-27 Thread John Baldwin
add denyall from 192.168.16.0/24 to any via wlan0 # pass everything else add allow all from any to any (I have not figured out a way to have the NAT prefer em0 if present and fail over to wlan0 if not, etc.) -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd

Re: Rework hypervisor detection

2014-10-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, October 27, 2014 12:47:13 PM Conrad Meyer wrote: Hi John, I don't have access to phabricator so I'll try and review in email. +#ifdef XEN +int vm_guest = VM_GUEST_XEN; +#else +int vm_guest = VM_GUEST_NO; /* Running as virtual machine guest? */ +#endif The whitespace

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread John
, I *think* I may have sussed it out. So far, the instance boots and loads its services (it's a web server) but it's hanging halfway through the loading process, and I can't make it abort loading them with ctrl-c for example. cheers, -- John ___ freebsd

bhyvectl man page?

2014-10-21 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Can someone write a man page for this tool? I'm willing to do the formating if someone writes the text... Thanks. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has

testing bhyve on AMD box...

2014-10-21 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Features=0x8BMI1 TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail memory = 7665848320 (7310 MB) I'm willing to test any patches you throw my way... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has

Re: testing bhyve on AMD box...

2014-10-21 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Neel Natu wrote this message on Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:01 -0700: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:50 AM, John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com wrote: So, I did, and it failed... First, if_tap doesn't get automatically loaded.. but that was easy to spot due to the error message... loader runs

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread John
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:02:17PM +0100, John wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:11:07AM -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote: You can convert the image without data loss. Qemu-img and VBoxManage provide a means to do as such. I know, I had already converted it to raw. The question

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread John
have sorted it in any case. I was thrown by the login prompt not appearing in the console. Really pleased with the performance of ubuntu on bhyve. It doesn't impact much on the host either. -- John ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-20 Thread John
10-STABLE -- John ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: can a bhyve instance be resized? adding another virtual disk?

2014-10-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Oct 15, 2014, at 5:56 AM, freebsd-li...@potato.growveg.org wrote: Can a bhyve instance be resized? I'm talking about the disk. Say your end user needs more diskspace. They have 32GB. They need 64GB. How do you do it? I presume one has to stop the guest, then use truncate. What about if

Re: Enabling VIMAGE by default for FreeBSD 11?

2014-10-14 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: On 11 Oct 2014, at 21:58, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, What action items are left to enable VIMAGE by default for FreeBSD 11? well the next step is to make it a dependancy so that free bsd won't install without it, and to inject it in many

Re: Enabling VIMAGE by default for FreeBSD 11?

2014-10-14 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: On 11 Oct 2014, at 21:58, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, What action items are left to enable VIMAGE by default for FreeBSD 11? Are there any tests results showing performance implications on different network-related workloads? Not everyone

Re: no routing from new bhyve install

2014-10-12 Thread John
Answered my own question - the machine froze and rebooted. Now bhyve works as expected. Looks like it's as fast as bare metal, which is unexpected. -- John ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: bhyve and zfs and speed

2014-09-08 Thread John
. Here you have zvols which default to 8k but the vtbd device reports 512b sectors, not sure if you try to trick it into using larger values here wouldn't help. Also different UFS block sizes for different zvol recordlens might be interesting test. Thanks again for the advice -- John

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