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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:39:45 -0800
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: are ahci-hd images the same as raw under bhyve
Message-ID:  <52F8F2C1.9030505@freebsd.org>
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Hi Aryeh,

> When I was playing with bhyve-grub a while ago I noticed there seemed to be
> little difference between ahci-hd and "raw" (if no format it given besides
> just naming a md file).  Is it safe to treat the two formats
> interchangeably in bhyve (and bhyve-grub)?  Can I do this to the point of
> mixing and matching them on instances created with both (i.e. boot with
> ahci on a raw image and vice versa)?

  Not quite sure what you mean here: ahci-hd is a device emulation (as 
are ahci-cd and virtio-blk). The backend for these is either a disk 
image on a filesystem or a block device.

later,

Peter.



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