Linux on BHyVe in 10.0-RELEASE

[Jonas Bülow]

So, the conclusion is that it's not possible to run Linux on bhyve running
on 10.0-RELEASE ?



/J


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Michael Dexter
<editor at callfortesting.org>wrote:

>
> Here's what I've found so far:
>
> vmrun.sh does not like zvols and I am hoping for:
>
> sh vmrun.sh -m 1024 -d /dev/zvol/zroot/vm3 vm3
>
> It gets as far as:
>
>  Writing partition tables                   [In Progress ]
>  Initializing ada0p2                        [   Failed   ]
>
> I am trying to figure out why.
>
> What does work for me for FreeBSD VM's is to prepare /dev/zvol/zroot/vm3
> using the bhyve-script approach and then boot it as usual.
>
> I will include this in an rc version of "bhyve-script" that I hope to
> release shortly. It may not be worth adding the functionality to
> bhyve-script as it is EOL.
>
> Michael
>
> On 1/22/14 11:26 PM, Jonas Bülow wrote:
> > Yes, if "using zvol" is the same thing as using ZFS for the guest image.
> >
> > I tried setting DEVTYPE to "" with the same result.
> >
> > /J
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jonas,
> >>
> >>
> >>  Installation starts and everything looks good until it tries to install
> >>> the
> >>> grub boot loader. That last step fails. Exiting the installer and
> running:
> >>> #sh lin1 start
> >>> Gives a grub prompt.
> >>>
> >>> Any hints?
> >>>
> >>
> >>  Are you using a zvol for the guest disk image ?
> >>
> >> later,
> >>
> >> Peter.
> >>
> >>
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