Native Linux guest in Bhyve (no grub2-bhyve) status?

[Conrad Rad]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2014-10-22 16:22, Conrad Rad wrote:
>> I've tried booting a Linux VM and of course it just hangs in
>> bhyveload. Does anyone know what is needed? What has been implemented?
>> If work is being done in this area, where it is? And what else is
>> needed?
>
> That definitely won't work, bhyveload is very specific to freebsd. A
> generic boot system would use some other command, or none at all.


Hi Allan,

I elided a bit of detail — actually I'm using libvirt, which then uses
bhyveload. So we need to create some other generic loader, and fix
libvirt to invoke that instead?

What does bhyve need the loader to do?

Thanks,
Conrad