Linux on BHyVe in 10.0-RELEASE

[Aryeh Friedman]

I am currently playing with it but from the above I suspect the issue is
attempting to use a zvol what happens if you go direct like for example
/vms/pri/XXXX (sorry for using petitecloud notatoin but XXX being the
location of the raw disk) it should work... I do know when I was playing
with QEMU before comiting it to code in PetiteCloud the key to transporting
instances back and forth between them was to keep everything as raw disk
images.... my guess we some major hacking you could do it out of the box...
the real answer though is getting kqemu or vbox working again.... me and
Dee (personally and not as the petitecloud development team) would be
willing to give $50 to anyone who can get kqemu running on 10 and/or show
how to get vbox to work headless


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Jonas Bülow <jonas.bulow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org