Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-22 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
On 22-10-2014 2:20, John wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 01:55:26PM -0700, Neel Natu wrote: > >> If you are comfortable sharing your disk image then I can try to >> reproduce locally and hopefully get a better grip on what's happening. > > That's very nice of you to offer, but I have to decline

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-22 Thread John
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:15:58PM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi John, > > I think what happened is that the grub config file was setting up > Ubuntu for a graphical console on the original VBox VM. I think you might be right. I'll check to see if there's a way to tell. I can't remember

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi John, I was so busy waiting for the login screen from the console that I'd failed to notice it *HAD* actually booted. I found this out by trying to ssh to it for the hell of it. dmesg showed things were normal. My console, though, looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/q4a3t4e The ubuntu is 13.1

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Manas, I have experienced something similar on a Gentoo guest. It boots fine but I don't get a login prompt at the end of the boot process. I am interested in learning a solution to this. I have a 14.04.1 Ubuntu guest‎ and a Debian guest (latest version) that work fine and present me with a l

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Allan Jude
est version) that work fine and present me with a login prompt. > > Manas > On BlackBerry > Original Message > From: Cory Smelosky > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 8:21 PM > To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SO

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Manas
login prompt. Manas On BlackBerry   Original Message   From: Cory Smelosky Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 8:21 PM To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John wrote: >> with ctrl-c for example. > > I was so bus

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread Cory Smelosky
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John wrote: with ctrl-c for example. I was so busy waiting for the login screen from the console that I'd failed to notice it *HAD* actually booted. I found this out by trying to ssh to it for the hell of it. dmesg showed things were normal. My console, though, looks like

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread John
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 01:55:26PM -0700, Neel Natu wrote: > If you are comfortable sharing your disk image then I can try to > reproduce locally and hopefully get a better grip on what's happening. That's very nice of you to offer, but I have to decline as I don't own the data. I think I might h

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED

2014-10-21 Thread John
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:02:17PM +0100, John wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:11:07AM -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote: > > > You can convert the image without data loss. Qemu-img and > > VBoxManage provide a means to do as such. > > I know, I had already converted it to raw. The questi

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread Neel Natu
Hi John, On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:59 PM, John wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 05:55:13PM -0700, Neel Natu wrote: > >> It seems that you are booting the guest from the disk that was >> originally used with vbox. > > Yes, this is what I want to do, because there's data on there. > If you are com

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread John
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:11:07AM -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote: > You can convert the image without data loss. Qemu-img and > VBoxManage provide a means to do as such. I know, I had already converted it to raw. The question was, how do I launch it, but after some experimentation and reading

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-21 Thread Cory Smelosky
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 21, 2014, at 00:59, John wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 05:55:13PM -0700, Neel Natu wrote: >> >> It seems that you are booting the guest from the disk that was >> originally used with vbox. > > Yes, this is what I want to do, because there's data on there.

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-20 Thread John
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 05:55:13PM -0700, Neel Natu wrote: > It seems that you are booting the guest from the disk that was > originally used with vbox. Yes, this is what I want to do, because there's data on there. > Do you have the same issue booting from an ubuntu ISO and doing a > fresh inst

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-20 Thread Neel Natu
Hi John, On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:04 AM, John wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:31:18PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote: > >> What version of FreeBSD are you using? You might want to try the latest >> 10.1 RC (or HEAD if you are so included) instead, as they have much >> improved bhyve. > > freebsd v

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-20 Thread John
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:31:18PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote: > What version of FreeBSD are you using? You might want to try the latest > 10.1 RC (or HEAD if you are so included) instead, as they have much > improved bhyve. freebsd version is: 10.1-PRERELEASE #0 r273275 ports is 371224 I'm running

Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-10-20 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-10-20 12:20, John wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to move from virtualbox to bhyve. From the server I've successfully > converted an ubuntu guest on vbox to raw. What I'm trying to do is to load > that > into bhyve, (on another freebsd server) and I'm at the limits of my knowledge > here; th