Windows 2019 server

[Dustin Marquess]

Indeed!

As for the other two... the virtio-rnd I pass through to all of my
capable VMs, as VMs usually have a tougher time to collect entropy, so
I figure it can't hurt.  The PCI passthrough I just forgot to remove
from my example before I sent it.  I have a dual-port 16C950 PCIe card
that I passthrough to Windows to run u-blox u-center :).

-Dustin

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:57 AM Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:10:03PM -0500, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> > > It's worth a shot at least to see if it works!
> > >
> > > But ya, basically the same as mine:
> > >
> > > bhyve -A -H -P -w -S -u -c sockets=1,cores=4,threads=2 -m ${RAM} \
> > > -s 0,hostbridge \
> > > -s 3,nvme,/dev/zvol/tank/vm/win2019 \
> > > -s 4,ahci-cd,${VMROOT}/win2019/empty.iso,nocache,ro \
> > > -s 5,passthru,130/0/0 \
> > > -s 10,virtio-net,tap2 \
> > > -s 20,virtio-rnd \
> > > -s 31,lpc \
> > > -l com1,stdio -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd ${VM}
> > >
> > > -Dustin
> >
> > I will try a bit of a mix.  Also  Do the same for the Linux emulations
> > such as Scientific, Fedora, Centos, Debian and Ubuntu and ORacle?
> >
> > BTW  rational for the -w , your -c content your passthru and the virtio-rnd?
>
> The -c context is done most likely for license reasons,
> without specifying topology the default for -c 8 would
> be 8 sockets of 1 core of 1 thread, that would require
> a high end server win2019 license.  By building this
> as a 8 threads in a single socket you get to use a
> single socket windows license.  This is one of the major
> reasons that I added the complex topology specification
> to the -c option.
>
> > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:54 PM The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:18:10PM -0500, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> > > > > I'm not sure if 12.0 has bhyve nmve support, but 10 & 2019 both seem
> > > > > to run MUCH faster when using nvme compared to ahci-hd.
> > > > >
> > > > > -Dustin
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here is the script I use to start the Windows server
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > #!/bin/sh
> > > > bhyve -c 4 -s 0,hostbridge -s 3,ahci-hd,/usr/vm/images/windows2019st  -s 10,virtio-net,tap3 -s 31,lpc -l com1,/dev/nmdm9A -l com2,/dev/nmdm10A -s 29,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5958,w=1024,h=768,wait -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd -m 4G -H -w windows2019st &
> > > >
> > > > So I should change ahci-cd to nvme?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 4:40 PM The Doctor via freebsd-virtualization
> > > > > <freebsd-virtualization at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Seems to be running slow on FreeBSD 12.0 p3.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just wondering if there are known issues.
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> Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org