Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 23:31:26 -0700 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a bhyve and Windows Server 2012R2 story Message-ID: <9147c070-f7ff-796f-e30c-7015f53b83c7@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAMhuX2Dwn0xPX72R--67iZKqHjNHJ5ZC80J-GOjfcuwyT6ZruQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMhuX2Dwn0xPX72R--67iZKqHjNHJ5ZC80J-GOjfcuwyT6ZruQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Evan, Thanks for persevering :) > [root@true11] /mnt/vm0/ds0/iso# pkg info | grep 7z > p7zip-15.14 File archiver with high compression ratio > > Unfortunately, it seems this version of 7z was not able to extract the > UDF ISO correctly. I don't have that exact version of 2k12 but I was able to extract a 2k15 tp5 ISO and verify that it was the same with 7z 15.14 and the older 9.38 version. I'll try with some others and see how it goes. > I also added NetKVM drivers from this version virtio-win-0.1.102.iso, > not virtio-win-0.1.96.iso as was specified in the guide. Glad to hear the newer version worked. The 0.96 version should also be fine. > My VM had a problem. It did boot and the SAC channels did start - but > somewhere after WIMApplyImage message was displayed in the SACSetupAct > - the VM would hang and top would show the bhyve process at 99% WCPU. > I destroyed the VM after it hanged like this for 1 hour. It took some > guessing, but eventually I recalled reading somewhere - possibly on a > KVM/QEMU/Xen wiki page - that IOMMU is needed for more than 1 core. Shouldn't be anything to do with the IOMMU. I have noticed that Windows installs on AMD machines require 2 or more vCPUs. Still working that one out. > I had difficulty at first with the network configuration. TrueOS has > ipfw enabled and I suspect it was originally blocking my RDP traffic. > Also, I did not have any successful network connections before I set > and loaded what's described in 21.7.7 Persistent Configuration: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-bhyve.html > > At first, I attempted to RDP to an IP I had assigned from the SAC > channel using the i <#> <ip> <netmask> <gateway> command. This never > worked and I am not sure why. Eventually, I created a CMD channel, > then used ipconfig to determine that Windows had leased a different IP > via DHCP. Using RDP to reach the DHCP IP worked! Oddly, I did not see > the static IP I had set in SAC updated with the DHCP one - but I > checked later, and it was updated. I'm new to SAC and maybe this is > just one of it's quirks. Not a FreeBSD problem in any case, but > perhaps a stumbling block others on freebsd-virtualization may > encounter. The AutoUnattend installation file specifies DHCP for config. If you want a fixed address, you should be able to get it either by modifying the AutoUnatted file prior to repack, or removing the DHCP config lines and configuring via SAC. later, Peter.
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