Re: Bhyve and Rocky Linux startup error

On 18/08/2025 16:18, Oliver Peter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 01:16:42PM +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
>> bhyve -c 1 -m 1G -w -H \
> ...
> It's not FreeBSD, 1G isn't just enough:
>      https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/minimum_hardware_requirements/#memory-ram

Good spot! Thanks.

"2 GB minimum (text-mode install)"

What the hell? That's systemd for you ;-)

I suspect this was someone being lazy and trying it on the smallest 
machine they had, and calling that the minimum. It will be interesting 
to find out when I can stop it faulting. I remember upgrading to 32Mb to 
run FreeBSD 4 and thinking it was getting out of hand. IIRC Unix Version 
7 ran in 64K (although 128K was better).

But seriously, this is crashing out on the bootloader as far as I can 
tell so unless the bootloader is written in Python or something, that's 
probably not the reason for the crash. It also borks on Hyper-V and I 
was speaking to some penguin enthusiast today and reckons his company 
has had trouble installing newer releases of Rocky. I may have to burn a 
CD-ROM and see if I can find a server with an actual CD drive. I think I 
have a few left.

Regards, Frank.