From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 31 21:13:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AF88D3 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:13:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.253.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B765F8FC14 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (rideseveral.corp.yahoo.com [10.73.160.231]) by mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/y.out) with ESMTP id q9VLDLQM090349; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:13:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=yahoo-inc.com; s=cobra; t=1351718002; bh=N4FhK8uCLyy7QwoIuhCpYxsF3LxCFLD7A9lNl+hY7YE=; h=Subject:From:Reply-To:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type: Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Crj+5hfSPNH8DiLf9hqIZVX1Q0gmiqoLuQov5Wz8YTy/zU8L4zs9Gu3bFFx8YBq8m KAVVFQusVPXsimnXwNN5pKH/QxqnK2iLMJJ9Bbhzp85V+LbbRuQva7LLPDQp99YwTO uJQz3TNBhSNWqSgzwszQFjgE4TNAQhbbd5CwWAEY= Subject: Re: dev/virtio stuff From: Sean Bruno To: Bryan Venteicher In-Reply-To: <163188575.1006.1351711992146.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> References: <163188575.1006.1351711992146.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:13:21 -0700 Message-ID: <1351718001.6034.17.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Milter-Version: master.31+4-gbc07cd5+ X-CLX-ID: 718002002 Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: "sbruno@freebsd.org" List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:13:48 -0000 On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 12:33 -0700, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > > > > Yep, it looks like I have to explicitly *mount* the virtio device > for > > it > > to get created in /dev though. Is that intended? > > > > I don't get what you mean by *mount*. It should be probed at boot > (or kernel module load time) and then GEOM should taste it and you're > off to the races just like every other block device. > > Bryan What I saw, was that if I did not put entries into the fstab to mount the virtio devices, they never go created. But, retesting it now, I think that I didn't have virtio setup correctly from the linux box in the first place. Sean