RHEL virtualization

[Nazim Can Bedir]

Hello,

I can't talk about RHEL but by using vm-bhyve and customized 
configuration (based on 
https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/blob/master/sample-templates/centos7.conf), 
I have managed to successfully install Ubuntu 20.04 in bhyve last week. 
In general, both booting and installation were smooth and installed 
system is completely usable.

Maybe you would like to try RHEL with centos7.conf?

Regards,
Nazim Can.

On 24/01/2021 02:14, John Kennedy wrote:
> At work, we have RHEL (-ish; some RHEL, some CentOS, some OEL).  Mostly v7,
> some v8.  Since I'm doing the Covid work-from-home telecommute, I'm trying to
> recreate some of my work infrastructure while trying to plan a bit towards
> the future (migrating a lot of VMs to Azure).
>
> What I'd like to recreate is my existing kickstart infrastructure, where I
> PXE boot the system, feed it anaconda goodness which dovetails into puppet
> and I can generate a clean system from a template.  Works great for VMWare
> and HyperV, not so much for Azure but if I can generate a snapshot disk
> image Azure can ingest, I'll be happy on that score.
>
> I've been very happy with bhyve for FreeBSD.  I messed with VirtualBox for
> a while (a long time ago), but with my tendency to track stable (think:
> kernel modules) and keep very current on ports-from-source (frequent
> package updates, upon which VirtualBox has MANY dependencies) made that a
> poorer experience than I had with it on Windows.  I've been very happy with
> bhyve since it's basically baked right in.
>
>
> That being said, RHEL on bhyve has been a pain to figure out.  The best I've
> done so far is using sysutils/grub2-bhyve to set up the boot CD, using
> BHYVE_UEFI.fd as UEFI firmware (sysutils/bhyve-firmware I think) and then
> getting at the console via net/tigervnc-viewer.
>
> Currently I'm fighting grub-bhyve's issue finding the kernel to load (if I'm
> finding the right problem reports, it doesn't seem to like modern XFS or
> ext4 partitions).  I couldn't get net/ipxe to PXE boot anything, and I din't
> manage to get very far with sysutils/uefi-edk2-bhyve.  And of course some
> of these are flagged with python2.7 isses.
>
> I'm not a fan of grub-bhyve, but that's mostly because you have to specify
> the full kernel-with-version path (changes every kernel update), but I
> figure I could make an expect-script that would figure it out if I could
> find a /boot filesystem type that grub-bhyve could "ls" properly.
>
>
> Ignoring my own setup details right now, what would someone currently
> bhyving RHEL recommend that I be doing right now?
>
> There is so much old information/documentation out there that I'm really
> second-guessing myself and probably chasing a bunch of dying ports.  But
> someone on here must be happy with what they've got going for them.
>
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