From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Sat Aug 25 17:46:10 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1653A109176B for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:46:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vixie@fsi.io) Received: from mail.fsi.io (mail.fsi.io [104.244.13.188]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADED67B15C for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:46:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vixie@fsi.io) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at fsi.io Sender: vixie@fsi.io Received: from linux-9daj.localnet (dhcp-181.access.lah1.vix.su [24.104.150.181]) (Authenticated sender: vixie) by mail.fsi.io (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0A116608BA; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:45:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Vixie To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, Paul Webster Subject: Re: Query regarding tutorials (Please have a quick read of me!) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:45:52 +0000 Message-ID: <6699362.kGnQbBhLUH@linux-9daj> Organization: Farsight Security, Inc. In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:46:10 -0000 On Saturday, August 25, 2018 8:55:05 AM UTC Paul Webster via freebsd- virtualization wrote: > ... I personally have: > > Windows Server 2012 > CentOS 6 > Debian > FreeBSD > OpenBSD > and a few other more strange linuxs I believe (got a zpool full of the > zvols (not named very well ;))) ... i have no exotic linuxes, but two fairly modern debians. i remain mystified by the behaviour of grub-bhyve, which usually fails (no meaningful error message) and seems like won't run from /etc/rc.local (must be run from a shell.) so, one of my bhyve servers can't restart automatically, and i don't know why. and i recently saw that the grub-bhyve package now lacks a maintainer, and may be removed. what this means is, a video on running linux in a bhyve would be appreciated. > anyhow IRC tells me that a lot of users > have trouble getting windows server working. I know obviously that 2012 > works but I am willing to take a swing at 2016 if people would want that. > > Or would the community benefit more of an example of 2012 (which is much > lighter)? > > Or perhaps something entirely different, any replies would be more than > welcome :) because of the internal container boundaries of windows 10 and server 2016, i won't run anything older. so if you're doing a windows server on bhyve video, i would want it to be 2016. -- Vixie