Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread Cory Smelosky
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 21, 2014, at 00:59, John 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 there.

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

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 not." __

testing bhyve on AMD box...

2014-10-21 Thread John-Mark Gurney
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 fine, but then after hitting enter, I get the following: /tmp/bhyve.4dv5wFK 91: [0008] FACS Address : 000F27C0 Error6154 -

Re: testing bhyve on AMD box...

2014-10-21 Thread Neel Natu
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:50 AM, John-Mark Gurney 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 fine, but then after > hitting enter, I get the following: > /tmp/bhyve.4dv5wFK

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread Neel Natu
Hi John, On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:59 PM, John 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 there. > If you are com

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 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 fine, but th

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 questi

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 h

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

Adding support for launching linux VMs in libvirtd/bhvye

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan Wong
Hi- I'm looking at libvirt in the ports tree and I noticed that bhyvectl has been added into libvirt. I'd like to add grub-bhyve to be able to load linux VMs as I currently can do manually or with the VMRC scripts. Any pointers on which files to look at and modify would be great. Thanks, Jonatha

Re: Adding support for launching linux VMs in libvirtd/bhvye

2014-10-21 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan Wong wrote: > Hi- > > I'm looking at libvirt in the ports tree and I noticed that bhyvectl has > been added into libvirt. I'd like to add grub-bhyve to be able to load > linux VMs as I currently can do manually or with the VMRC scripts. > > Any pointers o

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Manas
I have experienced something similar on a Gentoo guest. It boots fine but I don't get a login prompt at the end of the boot process. I am interested in learning a solution to this. I have a 14.04.1 Ubuntu guest‎ and a Debian guest (latest version) that work fine and present me with a login promp

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-10-21 21:07, Manas wrote: > I have experienced something similar on a Gentoo guest. It boots fine but I > don't get a login prompt at the end of the boot process. I am interested in > learning a solution to this. I have a 14.04.1 Ubuntu guest‎ and a Debian > guest (latest version) that w

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Manas, I have experienced something similar on a Gentoo guest. It boots fine but I don't get a login prompt at the end of the boot process. I am interested in learning a solution to this. I have a 14.04.1 Ubuntu guest‎ and a Debian guest (latest version) that work fine and present me with a l

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 13.1