Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:17:04 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: various virtualisation questions Message-ID: <53A30D00.6020604@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140619134227.GA7523@potato.growveg.org> References: <20140619134227.GA7523@potato.growveg.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2014-06-19 09:42, John wrote: > Hello list, > > I've looked and looked for bhyve info and worked examples all in one place > but my google-fu seems to be lacking today, so I'm asking here. > I'm running stable-10 r262917 host. Can one now have the following bhyve > instances? > > 1. openbsd (which versions?) > 2. ubuntu latest > 3. opensuse latest > > Can these be installed from the console? If so, how? > > I'm using virtualbox right now and it is very very very slow with freebsd > guest. Are there optimisations I need for bhyve? The host runs zfs. There's > lots of memory (192GB but lots of that seems swallowed by zfs!) > > 4. Can a virtualbox instance be converted to a bhyve instance? > > thanks! > Firstly, for running FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Redhat, I have entries in the handbook that walk you through it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host-bhyve.html OpenSuse would just be a matter of changing the grub config as required. If the guest happens to use grub2, grub-bhyve can usually just pickup the config file and work without any heavy lifting on your part, compared to CentOS 6 which still uses grub1 and requires injecting a bunch of kernel boot parameters. You can run some versions of OpenBSD, but you need to use a 'flashrd' style image. However, recent work in -CURRENT now allows running all modern versions of OpenBSD using the standard ISO to do the install etc. If you install the qemu-img tool, you should be able to convert your VirtualBox image into a raw disk image, and then you would be able to boot that in bhyve. -- Allan Jude [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTow0CAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfdhoP/3jZZa5wIo5TyGmwi6dTmPnq NEGFvQrCvCL4FIbmdVefu6dIlUhJX2pihvTwgBtgOZqtpjlPuJDwUw7n9DVpN31L U+JMm6lrOP3EZaRlMe9aU59F2+C0yqV2CNDBTN34AGxiXc7PsRnDS464V48ca/rs 3LdkZhOpXqpTTdQLZr3xxFvBcUzcDlG+sk0acshU5JEhs+psTBJdSRebuy3STZi6 1d9W/6HdnQCa21GJdcgttHckQ+lvrClrlx3ZaiNrRGiGgXDDXHGuQHr9oMNQWLav cC1PrJToO9WOURv7WUi9/RfocQm+5ICowe2LNtmalvR372wnBQB8EnXacDsKcrzq PNSXrVHIBzgmJNynZbmSeDIT98WkSc54B4jWjqhZACcXhSGa0ruEHM4JUoO21dao xXH5jp8meTn6+ZjHInjZYaEOVsi1Be8s1Eex+jx8oz3bgf4o6vZyHUwR3V2RtvGl /d+BKKEbZ8LLzBNdvJzaQIsGtmfKqxc0AutAc/NvzhEar7p32mgpZdI2R4N8wOVy lFzKhXuPzfw0xok/cfCnNeKbqS1VC2v80SNdkInYv7afbmOTDPRMF/y0sxFQiomR nl8kI6sn39vLzGt6q0AQSzawl35l57bR/gfUL7Pm2ZuzvqBvJ05ER9uUL5kK3l2F cLYqehz9KTJXa4qCOJT1 =R4KZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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