bhyve in -current 4/14/13 can no longer support FreeBSD stable install

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Sat Mar 16 06:22:00 UTC 2013


On 3/15/13 8:03 PM, Neel Natu wrote:
> Hi Alfred,
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I've been trying to get bhyve to install FreeBSD-stable for the past day on
>> a -current machine:
>>
>> FreeBSD dan 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r248291: Fri Mar 15
>> 00:58:03 PDT 2013     root at dan:/usr/obj/usr/trees/head/sys/GENERIC amd64
>>
>>
>> The stable snapshot I'm using to install is from here:
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/FreeBSD-9.1-STABLE-amd64-20130216-r246877-bootonly.iso
>>
>> What will happen is during the extract process the install will hang.  No
>> network IO happens and on the host I see bhyve's CPU hit 100% for each core
>> assigned.
>>
> Are you installing over the virtio-net interface?

Yes, it is a bootonly image.  Using the virtio-net seems to cause the 
machine to go sidewise relatively quickly.

thank you,
-Alfred


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