Query regarding tutorials (Please have a quick read of me!)

[Allan Jude]

On 2018-08-25 13:45, Paul Vixie wrote:
> On Saturday, August 25, 2018 8:55:05 AM UTC Paul Webster via freebsd-
> virtualization wrote:
>> ... I personally have:
>>
>> Windows Server 2012
>> CentOS 6
>> Debian
>> FreeBSD
>> OpenBSD
>> and a few other more strange linuxs I believe (got a zpool full of the
>> zvols (not named very well ;))) ...
> 
> i have no exotic linuxes, but two fairly modern debians. i remain mystified by 
> the behaviour of grub-bhyve, which usually fails (no meaningful error message) 
> and seems like won't run from /etc/rc.local (must be run from a shell.) so, 
> one of my bhyve servers can't restart automatically, and i don't know why. and 

What does the invocation look like?

Does this work:
printf "\n" | grub-bhyve ...your-stuff-here...

As an alternative, you can now use the UEFI_CSM firmware for bhyve, and
it'll boot from the boot blocks inside the VM, like xen/kvm/qemu/virtualbox

> i recently saw that the grub-bhyve package now lacks a maintainer, and may be 
> removed.
> 
> what this means is, a video on running linux in a bhyve would be appreciated.
> 
>> anyhow IRC tells me that a lot of users
>> have trouble getting windows server working. I know obviously that 2012
>> works but I am willing to take a swing at 2016 if people would want that.
>>
>> Or would the community benefit more of an example of 2012 (which is much
>> lighter)?
>>
>> Or perhaps something entirely different, any replies would be more than
>> welcome :)
> 
> because of the internal container boundaries of windows 10 and server 2016, i 
> won't run anything older. so if you're doing a windows server on bhyve video, 
> i would want it to be 2016.
> 


-- 
Allan Jude

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