Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Sat Feb 8 11:42:55 UTC 2014


On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier at cochard.me
> >wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >  If you create a sparse file for the bhyve raw disk (e.g. with truncate
> > > -s), du will show the actual blocks used rather than the total size.
> >
> >
> > But can I truncate an already existing image disk (downloaded nanobsd
> image
> > as example) ?
>
>
> There is this:  https://github.com/masover/sparsify
>
> I think this or something like it used to be in ports too.
>

bhyve (as far I know) disks must be one solid file (md backed) or a /dev
block device... therefore it is unlikely the above would work

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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org


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