bhyve - windows7 installation

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> >>>>> Rodney W Grimes <freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> writes:
> 
>     >> >>>>> Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd at omnilan.de> writes:
>     >> 
>     >> >  Bez?glich Ludovit Koren's Nachricht vom 01.03.2018 08:22 (localtime):
>     >> >> 
>     >> >> Hi,
>     > ...
>     >> > After connecting via VNC the vm boots from DVD and you see the setup
>     >> > program. You won't have mouse support, but keyboard's been working, right?
>     >> > So you have been able to finsih setup and login via VNC, still no mouse.
>     >> > Use your existing setup or do a new one to make the last assumptions true.
>     >> > If you booted with the two ISO images, use the keyboard to start
>     >> > "control panel/Device Manager", where you should find the unattached
>     >> > virtio NIC. Installt/Update the driver from there, you can tell the
>     >> > assistant to use e:\ as source (your 2nd. ODD).
>     >> 
>     >> Thank you very much. It is up and running.
>     >> 
>     >> I have an additional question. When I try to run:
>     >> 
>     >> bhyve -c 1 -s 0,hostbridge -s
>     >> 3,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/zroot/msw7,sectorsize=512/8192 -s
>     >> 10,virtio-net,tap1 -s 31,lpc -s
>     >> 29,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5900,w=1366,h=768,wait -s 26,passthru,0/26/0 -S
>     >> -l com1,/dev/nmdm0A -l com2,/dev/nmdm1A -l
>     >> bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd -m 4G -H -w
>     >> windows7
>     >> bhyve: passthru device 0/26/0 BAR 0: base 0xd4739000 or size 0x400 not page aligned
>     >                                                                ^^^^^
>     >> 
>     >> bhyve: failed to initialize BARs for PCI 0/26/0
>     >> 
>     >> 
>     >> 
>     >> pciconf -vlb ppt0 at pci0:0:26:0
>     >> ppt0 at pci0:0:26:0:       class=0x0c0320 card=0x17df103c chip=0x1e2d8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
>     >> vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     >> device     = '7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller'
>     >> class      = serial bus
>     >> subclass   = USB
>     >> bar   [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xd4739000, size 1024, enabled
>     >                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>     > Due to the design of the IOMMU you can only manage IO space in page
>     > (4096 on x86) granually sizes.  The device your trying to pass in
>     > has a 1024 byte memory region that is part of a 4096 byte page that
>     > may have other things in it.
> 
>     > At this time bhyve does not have any way to deal with this, though some
>     > other hypervisors have techniques that make this work.
> 
> I used VirtualBox. I gave a try to bhyve. I am using FreeBSD for all work
> I need. I need windows for some tasks: some VPN (I am not able to
> connect with vpnc, openconnect, racoon, strongswan), Iphone backup,
> etc. I am not able to use a single hypervisor for all of that. Could you
> recommend one?

Unfortanetly I can not make one as I am not familiar with all
of your listed needs and what they specifically require.  I
do not know which, if any, can deal with passing in your non-page
sized USB device either.

> thanks.
> regards,
> lk
> 
>     > I do not have or know of any list of USB controller cards that
>     > have 4k aligned and 4k sized BAR's.
> 
>     >> The intention is to have usb device in the windows.
> 
>     > A discussion recently in the developers conference call
>     > touched on this very subject.  The basic design would be
>     > rather than pass in a whole controller would be to add
>     > the ability to pass in individual devices.
> 
>     >> Any suggestions?
> 
>     > Are you trying to pass in a motherboard resource?
>     > You might find an add on USB card that has proper BAR
>     > size and alignment, though I have no tips for which
>     > ones do or dont.
> 
>     > It may also be possible to hack the code to ignore the
>     > error IF SECRUITY IS OF NO CONCERN, as this hack would
>     > allow the VM guest to access devices outside of its
>     > domain.  I am uncertain if this might have other side
>     > effects as to loss of access to devices in the same
>     > page from the host perspective.
> 
>     > -- 
>     > Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org
> 
> 
> 

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org