Re: bhyve VM drive size limit?

Hi Allan/Jason, I think Ill have a go at the "missing space" situation again after some reading up. Since I went with the default block sizes (on both the zvol and the ext4 fs) I probably have some reconfiguration to do.. Thank you very much for your feedback/directions! Kind regards, Ruben

Re: bhyve VM drive size limit?

On 2017-09-02 10:52, Ruben wrote: > Hi Jason, > > >> Make sure >> you adjust the zvol block size in the default config before creating your >> guest or you will wonder where your storage starts to disappear to. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jason > Perhaps slightly off-topic, but might you have any

Re: bhyve VM drive size limit?

Hi Ruben, On 3 September 2017 at 00:52, Ruben wrote: > > Perhaps slightly off-topic, but might you have any recommendations > regarding those blocksizes? > I use 8k zvol block sizes. This seems to work consistently for me with OpenBSD and Windows Server 2016 guests. While you

Re: bhyve VM drive size limit?

Hi Jason, > Make sure > you adjust the zvol block size in the default config before creating your > guest or you will wonder where your storage starts to disappear to. > > Cheers, > > Jason Perhaps slightly off-topic, but might you have any recommendations regarding those blocksizes? I'm not

Re: bhyve VM drive size limit?

Try chyves and use UEFI booting. I think you might have hit a grub limit. For chyves, it is a fork of iohyve so it will be familiar for you. Follow the documentation for a Windows UEFI install. You need the UEFI blobs as well and import them into chyves, see bhyve-firmware in packages. Make sure

bhyve VM drive size limit?

Dear all, Is there a limit with respect to the size of the virtual drive I can create for a VM using bhyve? Presumably not but I’m running into problems with a larger drive. I am trying to create a 4T Ubuntu machine on a FreeBSD11.1 server using iohyve. There’s plenty of drive space available