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Subject: Re: Native Linux guest in Bhyve (no grub2-bhyve) status?
From: Conrad Rad <cse.cem@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2014-10-22 16:22, Conrad Rad wrote:
>> I've tried booting a Linux VM and of course it just hangs in
>> bhyveload. Does anyone know what is needed? What has been implemented?
>> If work is being done in this area, where it is? And what else is
>> needed?
>
> That definitely won't work, bhyveload is very specific to freebsd. A
> generic boot system would use some other command, or none at all.


Hi Allan,

I elided a bit of detail =E2=80=94 actually I'm using libvirt, which then u=
ses
bhyveload. So we need to create some other generic loader, and fix
libvirt to invoke that instead?

What does bhyve need the loader to do?

Thanks,
Conrad