Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread John
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 was, how do I launch it, but after some experimentation and reading,

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread Neel Natu
Hi John, On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:59 PM, John freebsd-li...@potato.growveg.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 05:55:13PM -0700, Neel Natu wrote: It seems that you are booting the guest from the disk that was originally used with vbox. Yes, this is what I want to do, because there's data on

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 was,

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread John
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 01:55:26PM -0700, Neel Natu wrote: If you are comfortable sharing your disk image then I can try to reproduce locally and hopefully get a better grip on what's happening. That's very nice of you to offer, but I have to decline as I don't own the data. I think I might

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Cory Smelosky
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John wrote: with ctrl-c for example. I was so busy waiting for the login screen from the console that I'd failed to notice it *HAD* actually booted. I found this out by trying to ssh to it for the hell of it. dmesg showed things were normal. My console, though, looks like

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Manas
prompt. Manas On BlackBerry   Original Message   From: Cory Smelosky Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 8:21 PM To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John wrote: with ctrl-c for example. I was so busy waiting for the login

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi John, I was so busy waiting for the login screen from the console that I'd failed to notice it *HAD* actually booted. I found this out by trying to ssh to it for the hell of it. dmesg showed things were normal. My console, though, looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/q4a3t4e The ubuntu is

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-20 Thread John
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:31:18PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you using? You might want to try the latest 10.1 RC (or HEAD if you are so included) instead, as they have much improved bhyve. freebsd version is: 10.1-PRERELEASE #0 r273275 ports is 371224 I'm running