From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Dec  3 16:30:32 2013
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DEBCA0
 for <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>; Tue,  3 Dec 2013 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA311036
 for <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>; Tue,  3 Dec 2013 16:30:31 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57])
 by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC1651222A;
 Wed,  4 Dec 2013 02:30:29 +1000 (EST)
Received: from Peter-Grehans-MacBook-Pro-2.local
 (c-67-161-27-37.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.161.27.37])
 by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 4.2.4-GA)
 with ESMTP id BQN13525 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au);
 Wed, 4 Dec 2013 02:30:28 +1000
Message-ID: <529E0722.4040007@freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:30:26 -0800
From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6;
 rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
Subject: Re: Upcoming FreeBSD 10.x + bhyve ...
References: <56DEE328-7C96-4AC9-BF87-2C41D4C7949F@hub.org>
 <529D210C.9020801@freebsd.org> <70B115D9-436C-45EC-8F2E-CEBB2A48A9A5@hub.org>
 <529D42C0.6020006@freebsd.org> <07A86855-DEE6-4B07-8D2E-47E97303B348@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <07A86855-DEE6-4B07-8D2E-47E97303B348@hub.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17
Precedence: list
List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports."
 <freebsd-virtualization.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-virtualization>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-virtualization-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-virtualization-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-virtualization-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:30:32 -0000

Hi Marc,

> How about disk size?   The Instructions for vmrun.sh state:
>
> ==== 6. Select default console type "vt100" or whatever is
> appropriate for you Install on disk device vtbd0 (appears as a 8GB
> disk device) At the end select "yes" when the "Manual Configuration"
> box appears. ====
>
> I’m assuming that I can change that default, but, if let’s say I
> stick with 8G to start, but decide I want to make it bigger later …
> is there an ability to ‘growfs’ the file system?  Or do I build a
> bigger system, rsync hte files from old to new and ditch the old?  or
> … ?

  Standard tools - truncate(8) on the host to extend the disk image 
file, and then growfs/gpart in the guest to use the extra space.

later,

Peter.