Re: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve

2017-12-27 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, On 28 December 2017 at 09:31, Cy Schubert wrote: > I've had no issues when I p2v Windows partitions. In the case of my laptop, > which has 3 FreeBSD partitions and a Windows partition, I've had no licensing > issues interchangeably booting it under VirtualBox under FreeBSD or on the > b

RE: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve

2017-12-27 Thread Cy Schubert
reebsd.org; FreeBSD Mailing List; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve On 12/27/2017 10:15 AM, Alan Somers wrote: > > I fear that you may be out of luck. Windows deliberately frustrates this > use case by profiling its hardware at installation tim

Re: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve

2017-12-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all, > Am 27.12.2017 um 18:15 schrieb Alan Somers > I fear that you may be out of luck. Windows deliberately frustrates this > use case by profiling its hardware at installation time and at every boot > thereafter. If the hardware changes too much, then Windows demands a new > license fee.

Re: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve

2017-12-27 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 12/27/2017 10:15 AM, Alan Somers wrote: I fear that you may be out of luck. Windows deliberately frustrates this use case by profiling its hardware at installation time and at every boot thereafter. If the hardware changes too much, then Windows demands a new license fee. Moving from physi

Re: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve

2017-12-27 Thread Alan Somers
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Cross posted to virtualization@, hackers@ and questions. > > I have a dual boot machine (windows 7 64 bit and fbsd 11.1-RELEASE [amd64]) > and want to run the windows partition as a vm in bhyve how would I go about > this. Bonus if the pr

Re: Running dual boot windows inside of bhyve

2017-12-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Joe Nosay wrote: > I'm curious as to why you would choose a lesser reliable system as the > guest. > Since I have several other VM's also running on it (they are where I do the torture testing of a webapp I maintain as well as browser compatibility [the reason f