Linux on BHyVe in 10.0-RELEASE

[Aryeh Friedman]

Does using the standard file backed bhye work?


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Jonas Bülow <jonas.bulow at gmail.com> wrote:

> fwiw, I do not have any /dev/zvol in the host. I'm using a vanilla FreeBSD
> 10.0-Release install using ZFS.
>
> /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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