Linux on BHyVe in 10.0-RELEASE

[Jonas Bülow]

Success. I have a working ubuntu 13.10 running under bhyve on FreeBSD
10.0-RELEASE.



/J


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Aryeh Friedman
<aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Jonas Bülow <jonas.bulow at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I do use the precanned bhyve-script "vm0" (if that is what you mean). It
>> explicitly mentions linux support. bhyveload can't be user for other images
>> than FreeBSD so I don't know how to use your script for a linux OS
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> Since I have not used bhyve-grub personally yet I can not recommend what
> the correct loader command line but if bhyve-script is in anyway related to
> vmrun.sh I would be highly suspicious of any command lines you manage to
> extract from it since they are often not the ones actual called.
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>> I assume the image is file backed as I have not assigned a dedicated
>> partition to the vm (and I don't know how to do that).
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> You can keep them anywhere no need for a special volume (mater of fact I
> was just reusing the name of one of the diretoriess that PC creates during
> install even without it being a different vol [just assumes any FS
> boundaries are the host OS's problem)... you can put the disk image any
> where (your home directory would be fine for example)
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