bhyve guest from physical disk

[Allan Jude]

On 2016-01-21 10:49, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> Thanks, Allan!
>
> Excerpts from Allan Jude's message from Thu 21-Jan-16 10:22:
>> On 2016-01-21 10:11, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
>>> Is it possible to run a bhyve guest from physical disk?
>>> I tried adding this option:
>>>
>>> -s 3,ahci-hd,/dev/ada2
>>>
>>> but it doesn't work.
>>
>> Make sure that the device is not in use by anything else. Also, does
>> that device contain an EFI boot partition?
>
> This is a great question. Most likely not, besides the main one, it has
> only regular 100M Windows boot partition.
>
> However EFI should support legacy boot anyway, correct?
>
> Sergey
>

bhyve cannot legacy boot windows, only EFI, because of the graphics 
requirement. When you do 'gpart show /dev/ada2' if the disk was setup 
for EFI booting, it should have an EFI partition.

-- 
Allan Jude