how to for making bhyve images (using makefs + mkimg)

[John-Mark Gurney]

Alfred Perlstein wrote this message on Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 22:37 -0700:
> On 10/29/14 9:34 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >So, Michael Dexter prodded me to document how I'm doing it, so I put
> >up a blog post at:
> >http://blog.funkthat.com/2014/10/building-bhyve-images-using-makefs-and.html
> >
> >It's a quick guide on how to build images using makefs and mkimg.  Only
> >time you need root is when you run the VM...
> >
> >btw, thanks for getting bhyve running on AMD! :)
> >
> John-Mark, very cool.
> 
> Thanks for pointing me at mkimg, will have to look at porting our build 
> to use that as opposed to "mdconfig".

np...  It's cool..  though things get built a bit different w/ mkimg
wrt to partiion alignment.. so make sure things are good, i.e. 4k
aligned for most hard drives...  One easy way to do this is to use
-P 4k...

Enjoy!

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