bhyve and freebsd memstick installer

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Fri Jul 6 20:37:37 UTC 2018


On 06/07/2018 18:32, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Untested, but since memstick is actually a "disk" image and not
> a "cdrom" image you should be able to do something like
> vmrun.sh -c 2 -m 4096M -t tap0 -d memstick.img -d guest.img guestname
> 
> Your memstick should show up as ada0,
> and your guest.img should be ada1.

Thanks for that, I'll try it next time I can.

I got round it temporarily by mounting the memstick as /dev/md1p3 and 
pointing mkisofs at that.

the -i -I thing of bhyve threw me. I thought I'd need it to point to 
bootable media.

-- 
J.


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