From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 25 14:33:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECFD42A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:33:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from symbolics@gmx.com) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D9612AC6 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lemon ([80.7.17.14]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LrvWY-1VgqYV2zja-013aSG for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:33:41 +0200 Received: by lemon (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 280F6EB352; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:33:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:33:41 +0100 From: symbolics@gmx.com To: virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Three observations on Bhyve Message-ID: <20131025143341.GC26481@lemon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:BrNPvcAjYKre0sJpEPEglaBWaZ2c7acwK7QBKINEIGENDJ2rwAy YJam5ueeZWaxud7eVX4lPEqgCAo5SNi12xB7ioB2/zINwgJ1gvrAvbN6wUXvXqdD7AevUFI /leERXCzZgEobAPxB5JZ0+Dmo6fHAysVziuBLrq4uiflxVyPghSVosxFRUtjm8BrMyTwczn +NJOesrxtqzEdRUaxS7gA== X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:33:43 -0000 Hi A few things I've noticed playing with Bhyve & vmrun.sh (1) You can't boot an i386 ISO. It can't load the kernel. I half expected this would be the case. It would be nice if this did work. (2) VirtIO on a raw disc device seems to have some problems. I tried installing using the -BETA1 amd64 ISO. The disc particulars seem to be detected fine but when I try and commit the partition layout I see: 5vtbd0: hard error cmd=write 290-305 The disc is a 640GB WD SATA disc and I used the automatic scheme, if it makes any difference. * I also had to comment the -f test in vmrun.sh (line 116) of course. (3) I tried to use the live environment in order to play around with (2) a bit more but it lacks the necessary /etc/ttys line. It would be great if this wasn't required *somehow*. Should I file PRs for these issues? Thanks! --sym