FreeBSD 11 - Bhyve - Spoof MAC address

2016-01-04 Thread James Lodge
Hi All, I'm just getting started with Bhyve. So far everything is working as expected. My original goal was to be running Ubuntu 12.04 i386 as I need it for a particular project. One issue I'm having is MAC address spoofing. I'm aware I can change the MAC address within Ubuntu but I'd like to

Re: FreeBSD 11 - Bhyve - Spoof MAC address

2016-01-05 Thread James Lodge
> >> On Jan 4, 2016, at 9:32 AM, James Lodge wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> I'm just getting started with Bhyve. So far everything is working as >> expected. My original goal was to be running Ubuntu 12.04 i386 as I need it >> for a

Bhyve - EPT/Real Address Mode - Unrestricted Guest

2016-01-18 Thread James Lodge
Hello all, Can someone please confirm that having EPT support in the CPU is not necessarily enough to run Bhyve. I have an Intel Xeon L5520 (Nehalem family) that supports EPT but when trying to run an VM, receive Windows VM UEFI 2 vCPUs requested but only 1 available ROM boot failed: unrest

Re: Bhyve - EPT/Real Address Mode - Unrestricted Guest

2016-01-19 Thread James Lodge
ter. Hi Peter, Thank you for the clarification. It looks like I'll need to purchase a couple to Westmere X5650 CPU's that do have the 'unregistered guest' feature as I need to be able to running multi vcpu FreeBSD vms and Windows. Thank you again for your help. Rega

Re: does FreeBSD 10.3 bhyve support windows guests?

2016-04-28 Thread James Lodge
> On 28 Apr 2016, at 09:14, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: > > It was merged to 10.2-STABLE in r295124 and was releases as part of > FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE. > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:33:40 -0400 > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > >> Or is this support only in -CURRENT? >> >> -- >> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead D

Re: a bhyve and Windows Server 2012R2 story

2016-06-04 Thread James Lodge
I've booted my first Windows Server 2012R2 VM in bhyve. It took about 1 day's setup but I finally have it working. My notes below detail a couple pitfalls and things which I did differently than described in online references I used. The further I progressed in this, the more I realized that the

Re: bhyve graphics support

2016-06-04 Thread James Lodge
the Bhyve binary over. There were a few other hoops to jump through, but I can now launch Bhyve with the GOP UEFI binary. If I execute Bhyve without the fbuf device, Bhyve runs and Windows boots normally. If I include the fbuf, Bhyve returns without error, but does not run. If I in