byhve failing to boot 11.0 install on AMD.

2016-11-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
My system is a AMD 9590 running 11-STABLE r309298M and I'm trying to boot the 11.0 Install using the command line: sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 4 -m 1024M -t tap0 -d /dev/zvol/vr1/FreeBSD-11.0-install -i -I /vr1/home/dgilbert/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso test This results in th

Trying to read linux-lvm on 11.0-RC2 using geom, bhyve, fail.

2016-09-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm converting some Xen/Debian/Windows domain servers to FreeBSD/Bhyve/Samba domain servers. Windows is still required for a couple of applications, but I've recently had enough success with Samba4 to try this. Not the problem. The machines have two disks (was RAID-1 before, will be RAID-1 after)

There's a whole lot of X34x0's out there that fail.

2015-01-11 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
>From what I've read around here, an entire swatch of CPUs have a problem --- they have all the virtualization gunk save the ability to run in16 bit mode in emulation. An example would be the X34x0 ... the cornerstone processor for an entire generation of servers. I, for instance, have four of th

Ancient FreeBSD Linux Emulation Irrelevant?

2013-09-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I admit the "Subject" is a teeny bit of a troll. I have traditionally not worried that Linux emulation would not be sufficient --- a) many things come as source and b) linux code is by definition public --- so we'll have none of the problem a-la-wine. But our linux emulation is based on 5-year-ol

Linux and Steam and libc.so.6

2013-05-16 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
As far as I can tell, our current linux emulation platform is based on Fedora "10." As far as I can tell, this was released in November 2008 (going on 5 years ago) and was EOL as of December 2009 (my source is wikipedia). Wow. Until now, I have ignored (mostly) where the linux emulation came fro