RE: A couple of newbie questions

Colleagues, >I like bhyve very much, and have sucessfully run FreeBSD and Ubuntu >16.04 server in FreeBSD 10.3 bhyve, with vm-bhyve as a shell. >Now I am trying to boot Windows 7 but have not succeeded so far. >However there are things I don't quite understand. A couple of questions, if >you

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:31:02AM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > uefi="yes" > > graphics="yes" > > Dear Colleagues, > > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a > 10.3-RELEASE system, or do I have to install CURRENT for that? AFAIK you can checkout usr.sbin/bhyve

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:59:45PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Lars Engels wrote: > > > > > > > > uefi="yes" > > > > graphics="yes" > > > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > > > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a > > > 10.3-RELEASE system, or do I have to install CURRENT

RE: Bhyve tests and findings

> > uefi="yes" > graphics="yes" > Dear Colleagues, > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a 10.3-RELEASE > system, or do I have to install CURRENT for that? I believe you should also be able to use the 11 beta. Matt ___

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

Lars Engels wrote: > > > > > > uefi="yes" > > > graphics="yes" > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a > > 10.3-RELEASE system, or do I have to install CURRENT for that? > > AFAIK you can checkout usr.sbin/bhyve from the 11 branch and

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

Jordan, I almost forgot one important detail, giving the bhyve instance anything less than 8 gigs of RAM will cause bhyve to exit upon attempting to boot. You must give it at least 8G. -Trent ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

I am unaware of any drivers for virtio-net or the ne2k for OS X offhand, however if there ends up being an e1000 emilation you will be golden there. OS X should be happy with the AHCI device however. If I get bored this weekend I may take a crack at it - I'm betting it's

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

Jordan, I've attempted this in the past, and got to an Apple boot screen [1] using the Clover "Hackintosh" bootloader and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. However, depending on the drivers used [2], the instance will either "blow up" (crash), or just sit there and hang. After creating the Clover USB

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

If I remember right, bhyve on 12-CURRENT now supports e1000 emulation. Thanks, Shawn On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:15:25AM -0700, Cory Smelosky wrote: > I am unaware of any drivers for virtio-net or the ne2k for OS X offhand, > however if there ends up being an e1000 emilation you will be golden

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

There is a virtio-net driver but it’s likely out of date. See here: https://github.com/pmj/virtio-net-osx The author periodically responds to opened issues but has stated they don’t have time to continue work on it. This did work at one point so it probably just needs some bit-rot repaired.

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

Zitat von Matt Churchyard : Zitat von Peter Grehan : Hi Mike, - Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 installs and runs in graphical mode flawlessly. Have you had any issues with the XHCI mouse on 8/8.1 ? - I was able to graphically Restore/Reconfigure