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To: Manas <b.manas.88@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: moving from virtualbox to bhyve - SOLVED
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Hi Manas,

> I have experienced something similar on a Gentoo guest. It boots fine
> but I don't get a login prompt at the end of the boot process. I am
> interested in learning a solution to this. I have a 14.04.1 Ubuntu
> guest‎ and a Debian guest (latest version) that work fine and present
> me with a login prompt.

  This is most likely a graphically-oriented distro that doesn't have an 
install process that can run on a serial console. I've seen that same 
with Fedora ISOs.

  Server distros are your best bet for bhyve, at least until VGA 
emulation is done.

later,

Peter.