Booting Linux VMs under Bhyve with fresh -CURRENT

2013-09-28 Thread symbolics
Hi I noticed Peter Grehan's commit today that suggests it is now possible to boot Ubuntu Linux under bhyve. I've tried a few things but I can't seem to get it to start. The manual pages for bhyve(8) and bhyvectl(8) seem to be missing at the moment, so I'm not sure how to proceed. From reading vmru

Booting Linux VMs under Bhyve with fresh -CURRENT

2013-09-28 Thread symbolics
Hi I noticed Peter Grehan's commit today that suggests it is now possible to boot Ubuntu Linux under bhyve. I've tried a few things but I can't seem to get it to start. The manual pages for bhyve(8) and bhyvectl(8) seem to be missing at the moment, so I'm not sure how to proceed. From reading vmru

Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-25 Thread symbolics
Hi A few things I've noticed playing with Bhyve & vmrun.sh (1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work. (2) VirtIO on a raw disc device seems to have some problems. I tried installing using the -BETA1 amd64 I

Re: Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-25 Thread symbolics
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:30:29AM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > > (1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half > > expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work. > > The loader work isn't too bad to get this going, but the bhyve work is > quite a bit mor

Re: Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-26 Thread symbolics
Context: Bhyve guest cannot use disc devices through VirtIO due to interaction with GEOM tasting on the host. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:04:58PM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > >>That's bhyve colliding with GEOM. There was a thread a while back > >> about being able to exempt certain block device

Re: Three observations on Bhyve

2013-10-28 Thread symbolics
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:30:29AM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > > (1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half > > expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work. > > The loader work isn't too bad to get this going, but the bhyve work is > quite a bit mor