Booting 9front on bhyve

[Lars Engels]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 08:10:13PM -0700, Trent Thompson wrote:
> Piotr,
> Thanks to work from Peter G, bhyve has been patched[1] to fix the PS/2
> mouse issue in 9front. With this fixed, I was able to get 9front installed
> and running from a bhyve virtual machine using virtio-blk emulation.  I was
> even able to set up networking[2] with virtio-net. Using ahci-hd and Intel
> 1000 emulation did not work for me. I'd also like to note that I had better
> success with partitioning the virtual hard drive as MBR in the installer,
> over GPT. I have heard of GPT working for some people, though. I uploaded a
> simple script to Gist[3] that I used to get this done, but as long as you
> use Virtio drivers you should be fine.
> 
> [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=311699
> [2] https://twitter.com/pr1ntf/status/817895393824382976/
> [3] https://gist.github.com/pr1ntf/fb62e316b3007f55590d2397a08b0e52
> 

Will you incorporate all your OS testing in iohyve? :)
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