Three observations on Bhyve

[Peter Grehan]

> (1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half
> expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work.

  The loader work isn't too bad to get this going, but the bhyve work is 
quite a bit more effort since the i386 kernel makes a lot more 
assumptions about the environment, such as the ability to call back into 
BIOS.

  On the TODO list.

> (2) VirtIO on a raw disc device seems to have some problems. I tried
> installing using the -BETA1 amd64 ISO. The disc particulars seem to be
> detected fine but when I try and commit the partition layout I see:
>
> 5vtbd0: hard error cmd=write 290-305
>
> The disc is a 640GB WD SATA disc and I used the automatic scheme, if it
> makes any difference.

  That's bhyve colliding with GEOM. There was a thread a while back 
about being able to exempt certain block devices from being tasted for 
iSCSI LUN usage - bhyve will probably need something similar.

> (3) I tried to use the live environment in order to play around with
> (2) a bit more but it lacks the necessary /etc/ttys line. It would be
> great if this wasn't required *somehow*.

  The ttys issue does need to be addressed. This applies for serial 
console users as well. Hey, works for Linux :)

> Should I file PRs for these issues?

  Yes, always file PRs please :)

later,

Peter.