Boot OpenBSD with bhyve and libvirt automatically.

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Tue Jan 6 20:18:13 UTC 2015


Hi John-Mark,

>>    I can't speak too much to libvirt since I didn't do that work, but
>> grub-bhyve is really a workaround to boot non-FreeBSD o/s's until a
>> UEFI/BIOS solution is done. If the changes to libvirt to support this
>> are large, it's most likely not worth it.
>
> Hmm...  Nathan just did some work to make loader into a userland
> program for calling Linux's kexec, could this work be leveraged?

  You'd still have to boot Linux to use that, and the issue is not so 
much booting Linux, but the hoops that grub-bhyve, based on grub2, has 
to go through to boot non-grub2 distros and o/s's. These issues mostly 
go away when a native boot loader is used.

later,

Peter.



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