Re: Query about bhyve's blockif_cancel and the signalling mechanisms

2016-12-14 Thread Ian Campbell via freebsd-virtualization
On 14 December 2016 at 00:05, Tycho Nightingale wrote: > On Dec 13, 2016, at 1:32 AM, Peter Grehan wrote: >>> I have a secondary concern which is what happens if the IO thread is >>> on its way to making a blocking system call in blockif_proc but has >>> not actually done so when the signal is de

Re: Query about bhyve's blockif_cancel and the signalling mechanisms

2016-12-14 Thread Ian Campbell via freebsd-virtualization
On 13 December 2016 at 06:32, Peter Grehan wrote: >> I've dug around in the FreeBSD kevent and signal man pages but I >> cannot find any part which describes anything of the semantics which >> bhyve seems to be relying on (which seems to be that the system call >> in the target thread will return

Booting 9front on bhyve

2016-12-14 Thread Piotr Kubaj via freebsd-virtualization
Hi, I want to install 9front in bhyve. The only information I've found about 9front on bhyve is here: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=9f...@9fans.net&q=subject:%22Re%5C%3A+%5C%5B9fans%5C%5D+Plan+9+image+for+xhyve%5C%2Fbhyve+hypervisor%5C%2Fvm%5C%3F%22&o=newest&f=1 That's what I actually do

Re: Booting 9front on bhyve

2016-12-14 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Piotr, That's what I actually do - I boot 9front with UEFI enabled. The problem is that when booting with UEFI mode, 9front hangs on https://anongoth.pl/2016-12-14-191343_1920x1080_scrot.png I managed to get it to boot a bit further. The tip is to not hit return at the [vesa] line - enter

Re: Booting 9front on bhyve

2016-12-14 Thread Piotr Kubaj via freebsd-virtualization
Is it possible to use other mouse drivers, ps2intellimouse etc.? On 16-12-14 14:32:29, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Piotr, > > > That's what I actually do - I boot 9front with UEFI enabled. > > > > The problem is that when booting with UEFI mode, 9front hangs on > > https://anongoth.pl/2016-12-14-191