Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:18:05 -0800 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot OpenBSD with bhyve and libvirt automatically. Message-ID: <54AC42FD.6020008@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20150106181450.GP1949@funkthat.com> References: <20141231172913.6d6eb551@franky.ipa.blackhats.net.au> <54A3B0D7.6070600@freebsd.org> <20150102140353.52d54d53@franky.ipa.blackhats.net.au> <54AC1114.4060609@freebsd.org> <20150106181450.GP1949@funkthat.com>
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Hi John-Mark, >> I can't speak too much to libvirt since I didn't do that work, but >> grub-bhyve is really a workaround to boot non-FreeBSD o/s's until a >> UEFI/BIOS solution is done. If the changes to libvirt to support this >> are large, it's most likely not worth it. > > Hmm... Nathan just did some work to make loader into a userland > program for calling Linux's kexec, could this work be leveraged? You'd still have to boot Linux to use that, and the issue is not so much booting Linux, but the hoops that grub-bhyve, based on grub2, has to go through to boot non-grub2 distros and o/s's. These issues mostly go away when a native boot loader is used. later, Peter.
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