Bhyve and booting a ZFS-on-root system

Michael Dexter editor at callfortesting.org
Sun Feb 23 19:24:25 UTC 2014


On 2/22/14 1:28 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> 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

Only two items are needed for booting ZFS VM's: /boot/userboot.so and
/usr/sbin/bhyveload

I posted these binaries and the patch for testing and you may find them
useful in the interim: http://bhyve.org/zfsboot.tar

While I have not tried a ZFS VM on AMD, it will load a UFS2 one.

Michael


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