Re: Illumos support in bhyve

2015-11-08 Thread Roman Bogorodskiy
Nicolas Gilles wrote: > SmartOS is built to work that way, booting from an "static" ISO or USB > or PXE, and just using the hard-drives in the system as store for the > zones + vms, the os "drives" is loaded into memory. > > In a VM, it's not going to change you much to boot form a virtual DVD

Re: Illumos support in bhyve

2015-11-07 Thread Nicolas Gilles
SmartOS is built to work that way, booting from an "static" ISO or USB or PXE, and just using the hard-drives in the system as store for the zones + vms, the os "drives" is loaded into memory. In a VM, it's not going to change you much to boot form a virtual DVD drive vs virtual HD install, what t

Re: Illumos support in bhyve

2015-11-06 Thread Roman Bogorodskiy
gre...@freebsd.org wrote: > Hi Roman, > > > I tried this instruction and I was able to get into smartos > > installation. I choose all the default options there, it reported > > successful installation. Then I dropped 'ahci-cd' part, but I cannot > > get > > smartos boot. > > For smartos, t

Re: Illumos support in bhyve

2015-11-05 Thread grehan
Hi Roman, I tried this instruction and I was able to get into smartos installation. I choose all the default options there, it reported successful installation. Then I dropped 'ahci-cd' part, but I cannot get smartos boot. For smartos, the CD should always be left there since that's the boo

Re: Illumos support in bhyve

2015-11-05 Thread Roman Bogorodskiy
Peter Grehan wrote: > To follow up on the previous post, with the UEFI support introduced in > r288524, bhyve can now boot Illumos since there is a working BIOS. > > This has been tested with SmartOS and also OpenIndiana and OmniOS, > though I've not been able to work out how to enable serial

Illumos support in bhyve

2015-10-04 Thread Peter Grehan
To follow up on the previous post, with the UEFI support introduced in r288524, bhyve can now boot Illumos since there is a working BIOS. This has been tested with SmartOS and also OpenIndiana and OmniOS, though I've not been able to work out how to enable serial console support for the latter