Fwd: bhyveloader / userboot - VM installation fails

[Paw Nishi]

sure,
Normally I use "vm start <vm>".

root at foxden:/home/sky # zfs list
NAME                          USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
tank                         76.4G   193G    19K  /tank
tank/vm                      76.4G   193G  10.6G  /tank/vm
tank/vm/mail                 13.0G   193G  13.0G  /tank/vm/mail
tank/vm/mail0                52.6G   195G  50.2G  -
zroot                        65.0G   179G    96K  /zroot
zroot/ROOT                   12.0G   179G    96K  none
zroot/ROOT/default           12.0G   179G  12.0G  /
zroot/tmp                     112K   179G   112K  /tmp
zroot/usr                     664M   179G    96K  /usr
zroot/usr/home                140K   179G   140K  /usr/home
zroot/usr/ports               663M   179G   663M  /usr/ports
zroot/usr/src                  96K   179G    96K  /usr/src
zroot/var                     752K   179G    96K  /var
zroot/var/audit                96K   179G    96K  /var/audit
zroot/var/crash                96K   179G    96K  /var/crash
zroot/var/log                 272K   179G   272K  /var/log
zroot/var/mail                 96K   179G    96K  /var/mail
zroot/var/tmp                  96K   179G    96K  /var/tmp
zroot/virtualworld           52.3G   179G  5.93G  /zroot/virtualworld
zroot/virtualworld/fortress  36.1G   214G  1.37G  -


tank = on SAS drives
zroot = on single SSD

root at foxden:/zroot/virtualworld/fortress # cat fortress.conf
loader="bhyveload"
cpu=4
memory=6G
network0_type="virtio-net"
network0_switch="public"
disk0_type="virtio-blk"
disk0_name="/dev/zvol/zroot/virtualworld/fortress"
disk0_dev="custom"
uuid="acdee15c-08c9-11e7-9640-f04da20ab066"
network0_mac="58:9c:fc:0e:f1:2e"

---

-----------------------
Virtual Machine: fortress
------------------------
  state: bootloader (30327)
  datastore: default
  loader: bhyveload
  uuid: acdee15c-08c9-11e7-9640-f04da20ab066
  uefi: no
  cpu: 4
  memory: 6G
  memory-resident: 0 (0.000B)

  network-interface
    number: 0
    emulation: virtio-net
    virtual-switch: public
    fixed-mac-address: 58:9c:fc:0e:f1:2e
    fixed-device: -
    active-device: tap4
    desc: vmnet-fortress-0-public
    mtu: 1500
    bridge: bridge0
    bytes-in: 0 (0.000B)
    bytes-out: 0 (0.000B)

  virtual-disk
    number: 0
    device-type: custom
    emulation: virtio-blk
    options: -
    system-path: /dev/zvol/zroot/virtualworld/fortress
---

root at foxden:/zroot/virtualworld/fortress # ls /dev/zvol/zroot/virtualworld/
fortress



----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Jude" <allanjude at freebsd.org>
To: "freebsd-virtualization" <freebsd-virtualization at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 5:25:20 PM
Subject: Re: bhyveloader / userboot - VM installation fails

On 2017-03-14 12:59, Paw Nishi wrote:
> Currently playing with bhyve on bare metal with vm-bhyve 
> 
> Created a zvol 
> Setup the zvol as disk0 in config 
> Installed VM with FreeBSD-11.0-bootonly ISO 
> Select ZFS as type with encryption. 
> Install successful 
> Restart VM, 
> 
> Displays following: 
> Consoles: userboot 
> 
> FreeBSD/amd64 User boot, Revision 1.1 
> (root at releng2.nyi.freebsd.org, Thu Sep 29 01:38:36 UTC 2016) 
> - 
> can't load 'kernel' 
> 
> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. 
> 
> OK lsdev 
> host devices: 
> host0: Host filesystem 
> disk devices: 
> disk0: Guest drive image 
> disk0p1: FreeBSD boot 
> disk0p2: FreeBSD swap 
> disk0p3: FreeBSD ZFS 
> zfs devices: 
> 
> What is the next to get it to boot, or can I only use UFS when running in bhyve? 
> I did read a previous mail from 2012 (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2012-December/001031.html) - it's now 2017 and this still an issue? 
> 
> thxs 
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I don't think your issue is related to the 2012 post.

Can you provide mode details about your setup, like the zvol device, and
the invocation of bhyve-load?


-- 
Allan Jude