Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Are there issues with Current CEntos and bhyve?
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Sure there are, please look at
> > > > > > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230453
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Booting in UEFI mode works.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This means we need an update to /usr/local/share/examples/vm-bhyve/centos7.conf ?
> > > > > > > It says 'loader="grub"' for the present.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Do you have a vm config to boot centos7 in UEFI mode you could share?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I just use /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh. I don't use any
> > > > > > third-party utility to manage bhyve VMs. vmrun.sh is pretty
> > > > > > straight-forward.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for replying. However, I highly recommend vm-bhyve, maybe you
> > > > > should give it a try. You will love the ease of VM creation and
> > > > > provisioning, network management, ZFS integration (VM snapshots and
> > > > > cloning), console and datastore management etc.
> > > > 
> > > > Though it has a lot of features, it also has some short comings,
> > > > like you can not spec a vm to be wired in memory, which IMHO is
> > > > the only way to insure consistent VM performance.
> > > 
> > > Well, we have "bhyve_options" configuration option in the vm config,
> > > why not put "-S" there, is that what you mean by wiring the vm in
> > > memory?
> > 
> > I believe that fails as that only adds the -S to bhyve, and
> > you must specify it both on bhyveload and bhyve for it to
> > work.
> 
> I think it is totally doable becase vm-bhyve is nothing but a suit of
> scripts. A PR with a feature request would be appropriate.

I made several attempts to contact the author at the email address
provided at the git hub while making other bhyve changes to try
and coordinate with him.  I got no response after 3 attempts,
so have stopped trying to contact them.   (This was while I was
adding the -c cpu topology modifications.)

> 
> What about VM that don't use bhyveload, but some other kind of loader
> like grub2-bhyve?

I am not sure how vm-bhyve deals with that as I have none of
those type VM's.
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Its artificial restriction of 16 character VM names is also
> > > > a fair bit annoying.
> > > 
> > > Maybe.
> > 
> > Maybe?  No, factually.  I migrated a number of ESXi VM's and
> > had to patch vm-bhyve to not have this restriction, so it is
> > annoying.
> 
> Did you send your patches upstream? 

Could not even get an email ack from upstream.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org