Windows 2016 Server

[Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 08:33:47AM -0600, Randy Terbush wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:58 AM, The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:20:28AM +0000, Matt Churchyard wrote:
> >
> > > One other issue is that Windows doesn't support the virtio-net network
> > device by default.  The easiest way to get this working is to boot the
> > guest with the virtio driver ISO attached instead of the Windows install
> > disk (once Windows is installed and working). You can then install the
> > driver for the network interface from the CD using the VNC console.
> > >
> > > Depending on what you are doing you may find it easier to use something
> > like iohyve/chyves/vm-bhyve/vmrc that handles all the raw bhyve commands
> > for you.
> > >
> > > Matt
> >
> > I will look into the iohyve , saw that last night.
> >
> > Does this also apply to UEFU BSDs / Linuxes ?
> >
> 
> ???Just to chime in quickly on this thread... I am a big fan of vm-bhyve. It
> has made it much easier to sort bhyve out in general and get through some
> of these new options for supported guests.
> 
> Regarding Linux and UEFI, much of this also applies there. I've
> successfully installed a LinuxMint guest. I will offer that after the
> install, the boot process hung at the EFI. After exiting from the Shell>
> prompt that eventually appears, it is possible to navigate the UEFI bios
> settings to pick a bootable device. Only after rerunning 'grub2-install'
> was I able to have a Linux guest that would boot without fiddling.
> ???
Let me give you my setup.

No Zpool here.

I am running FreeBSD 11 UEFI on x86_64.

I have set up some non-UEFI guest successfull , 

Fedora, Centos and Ubuntu.

If it the UEFI part using a non-zpool environment 

that I am trying to wrap my head around.

Smilir to Windows, I did install Fedora using 
UEFI but then 
could not go to the 
second stage, i.e. booting into the VM.

Hence I do need to understand how to this with my environment using
purely bhyve.



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