Bhyve and booting a ZFS-on-root system

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>wrote:

> On Feb 23, 2014 2:59 AM, "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Op 22 feb. 2014 om 22:28 heeft Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at FreeBSD.org> het
> volgende geschreven:
> >
> >> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Just for the fun of it, I tried my build zfs-system scripts in a
> bhyve-vm.
> >>>
> >>> I use the 10.0-RELEASE iso to get to a shell, config and interface and
> >>> download my script. Installing does work, and on a regular system we
> can
> >>> go and boot into a ZFS-on-Root system.
> >>
> >>
> >> ZFS on Root inside a BHyve VM was not working until
> >> today.  If you you have a FreeBSD-CURRENT system and then update
> >> to this revision:
> >>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2014-February/081210.html
> >>
> >> then you can try it out.
> >
> >
> > I'm running the amdsrc tree, so just upgrading current will probably not
> work.
> > Peter suggested that he would upgrade the amdsrc-tree shortly.
> > so I'll wait just for that.
> >
> > I'm also looking into running a Ubuntu vm. i want to test/use zoneminder,
> and all my FreeBSD attempts run into trouble.
> > So I'm also still looking for grub-bhyve.....
>
> grub2-bhyve is in ports: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/grub2-bhyve/
>
> If you do a web search, you'll find several HOWTO articles for using it.
> Recently, Rudy wrote a nice one:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2014-February/002305.html
>

Also keep in  mind most automation at this point is  nothing but generating
scripts designed for immediate use or user modifiction... (don't start with
our current ones because they are being debugged)... if you want a
scattered but very detailed discussion on what is required for these
scripts see
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2014-January/001979.html
-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org