vm-bhyve port upgrade

2015-11-12 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Hello, For anyone interested I have submitted a PR to update the version of vm-bhyve in the ports tree. Primarily this fixes the off-putting, but completely benign error printed when users run 'vm init' (the very first thing to run...) I've no idea if I've got the diff format right though.

bhyve uefi error please help me!

2015-11-09 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> Hello! > not workink bhyve and windows please help me: > bhyve > -c 2 > -s 0,hostbridge > -s 3,ahci-hd,/images/win.img > -s 4,ahci-cd,/images/win_repack.iso > -s 10,virtio-net,tap0 > -s 31,lpc > -l com1,/dev/nmdm0A > -l com2,/dev/nmdm1A > -l bootrom,/path/to/BHYVE_UEFI.fd > -m 2G -H

RE: Illumos boot

2015-10-15 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> Hi, >> .. > /pci@0,0/pci8086,2821@4/disk@0,0 (sd1) online > NOTICE: vioif0: Got MAC address from host: e4:94:1:0:ff:ff > pseudo-device: tun0 > tun0 is /pseudo/tun@0 > pseudo-device: lx_systrace0 > lx_systrace0 is /pseudo/lx_systrace@0 > > panic[cpu0]/thread=ff0002566c40: BAD

RE: Illumos boot

2015-10-15 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>> -s 0,hostbridge > Things should work if you leave out the hostbridge. The PCIe > capability that is tacked on to this will make Illumos use MSI/MSIx for > the virtio adapter which apparently hits a bug in the driver. Without > it, the virtio driver will fall back to legacy interrupts. This

RE: Illumos boot

2015-10-13 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>Hi, >Please see inline. >On Oct 13, 2015, at 7:17 AM, Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization ><freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> wrote: > In my quest to continue expanding guest support in my vm-bhyve utility (See > https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve :) )

RE: Options for zfs inside a VM backed by zfs on the host

2015-08-27 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:10:44PM -0700, Marcus Reid wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 05:25:52PM -0400, Vick Khera wrote: Opinions? Preferably well-reasoned ones. :) However, having the ARC eating up lots of memory twice seems pretty bletcherous. You can probably do some tuning to

RE: Understanding Bhyve shutdown

2016-04-13 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
As I understand it 1) shutdown from guest 2) 'kill ' -> pressing the power button once. 3) --force-poweroff -> holding power button in 4) --force-reset -> pressing the reset button 5) bhyvectl --destroy -> same as 3? (although vmm is destroyed as well) 1 or 2 are obviously preferred. I've found

RE: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-10 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> [..] > > You just need the vm name (win) on the end: > > # bhyve [options] vm-name > >Sorry, I was being stupid. With the vm name on the end, it just exits with >error code 1 and without printing anytning. >I have recompiled bhyve itself and the libvmmapi, maybe it's not enough? The

FW: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-04 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
(sent this to the wrong list...) -Original Message- From: Matt Churchyard Sent: 04 August 2016 12:57 To: 'Michael Reifenberger' Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Bhyve tests and findings >Hi, >after waiting for UEFI-GOP and using bhyve (with vm-bhyve as a convenient >tool) an a

RE: A couple of newbie questions

2016-08-05 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
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

2016-08-05 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> > 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

2016-08-09 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> > > > > > > > > > > > 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

RE: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-09 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>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

RE: Windows 2016 Server

2016-10-24 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:21:10PM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > >> [Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file > >> [D:\autounattend.xml] for pass [windowsPE]. The answer file is > >> invalid.] > > > > Something is wrong with your autounattend.xml file. > > Still working on the

RE: Windows 2016 Server

2016-10-25 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 08:07:13AM +, Matt Churchyard wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:21:10PM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > > >> [Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file > > >> [D:\autounattend.xml] for pass [windowsPE]. The answer file is > > >> invalid.] > > > > > >

RE: Windows 2016

2016-11-01 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>I was able to install the Windows 2016 using the GUI method. >One proble. >It is assigned an IP but >the netmask and the default route is not showing up. >Also The virtual Windows 2016 box does not see a network interface. This makes very little sense. You usually specify the netmask and

RE: Windows 2016

2016-11-01 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>I was able to install the Windows 2016 using the GUI method. >One proble. >It is assigned an IP but >the netmask and the default route is not showing up. >Also The virtual Windows 2016 box does not see a network interface. This makes very little sense. You usually specify the netmask and

RE: Windows 2016

2016-11-01 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Daniel Tihanyi wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 08:02 -0600, The Doctor wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:02:57AM +, Matt Churchyard wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I was able to install the Windows 2016 using the GUI method. > > > > > > > > One

RE: Windows 2016

2016-11-01 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org<mailto:freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>> wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Daniel Tihanyi wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 08:02 -0600, The Doctor wrote:

RE: Installing SQL Server on Windows 2012 bhyve guests

2016-10-26 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-virtualizat...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-virtualizat...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter Grehan Sent: 25 October 2016 19:19 To: Randy Terbush Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing SQL Server on Windows 2012 bhyve

RE: bhyve and vfs.zfs.arc_max, and zfs tuning for a hypervisor

2019-03-21 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> > > > > 1. Does ARC actually cache zfs volumes (not files/datasets)? > > > > Yes it does. > > I find this distinction between volumes/files/etc and what is cached > causes confusion (as well as "volumes not datasets"). > > Both ZVOLs and Z file systems are types of dataset. A dataset stores

RE: bhyve and vfs.zfs.arc_max, and zfs tuning for a hypervisor

2019-03-20 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > 1. Does ARC actually cache zfs volumes (not files/datasets)? > > Yes it does. I find this distinction between volumes/files/etc and what is cached causes confusion (as well as "volumes not datasets"). Both ZVOLs and Z file systems are types of dataset. A dataset

RE: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-08 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Michael Reifenberger wrote: > Hi, > first I tried to install windows10 ltsc 2019 onto a nvme disk. > This failed, the windows installer did not find a disk to install. > > Then I tried the following setup: > ... > disk0_type="ahci-hd" > disk0_dev="zvol" > disk0_name="disk0" > disk1_type="nvme" >

RE: VM Switch broken after update on 20190507

2019-06-17 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
>I just updated my bhyve server running CURRENT up to r349133 and can't start >my network switch. I suspect that this problem has a root cause in the kernel >configuration change made on 20190507 that created if_tuntap to replace the >tunnel and tap devices. My vm switch has been in use for

RE: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-23 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Victor Sudakov wrote on 2019-04-22 19:43: ... >> And the implementation is pretty brutal: >> # 'vm stopall' >> # stop all bhyve instances >> # note this will also stop instances not started by vm-bhyve # >> core::stopall(){ >> local _pids=$(pgrep -f 'bhyve:') >> >> echo "Shutting down

RE: Cannot run FreeBSD 11 as a vm-bhyve guest under FreeBSD 12

2020-03-02 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Hello. I'd like to run a FreeBSD 11.3 VM under FreeBSD 12.1. As I'm already using vm-bhyve to run a Windows guest, I think the best (or possibly only) choice is to use bhyve for the FreeBSD guest too. I've got the following conf file: > guest="freebsd" > loader="bhyveload" > cpu=1 >

System (ps/top) & bhyvectl memory usage differences

2020-01-30 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Hello, Is there a reason why the resident memory used by a bhyve guest is quite different when comparing ps/top & bhyvectl? Does bhyvectl take in account something in kernel space that top/ps doesn't see? USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZRSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 12670 0.1

Re: bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node

2020-01-10 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> On 9 Jan 2020, at 18:58, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: > > Hi, > >>> 2016 is slow (even slower doing windows updates). 2019 is much better. A >>> tip I have found is a minimum of 1 cpu, 2 cores and 4 threads to get decent >>> speed from that OS (more CPUs in bhyve >tends to make performance

RE: bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node

2020-01-09 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 08:37, Rodney W. Grimes mailto:freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>> wrote: > > Loading kernel... > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x168fdf1 data=0x1d0a68+0x768d80 > syms=[0x8+0x178bc0+0x8+0x1969d5] > Loading configured modules... > can't find '/boot/entropy' > / > " > > I get either

RE: bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node

2020-01-09 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Hi, > >2016 is slow (even slower doing windows updates). 2019 is much better. A > >tip I have found is a minimum of 1 cpu, 2 cores and 4 threads to get decent > >speed from that OS (more CPUs in bhyve >tends to make performance worse - in > >my observations - in 2016). Also, use the Virtio

bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node

2020-01-08 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Hello, I've recently got hold of some Dell C6220 systems (2 servers in a single chassis) while I was hoping to use for bhyve The basic spec of a single server is as follows - Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 (VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID) 64GB DDR3 LSI MegaRaid 9265-8i FreeBSD 12.1 I had a bit of

RE: bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node

2020-01-14 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> Hi, > >2016 is slow (even slower doing windows updates). 2019 is much better. A > >tip I have found is a minimum of 1 cpu, 2 cores and 4 threads to get decent > >speed from that OS (more CPUs in bhyve >tends to make performance worse - in > >my observations - in 2016). Also, use the