Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... > > Boot Failed? So windows never started. > > Your not having a shutdown problem your having a start up failure. > > > > What is the output of: > > file /vm/img/disk1.raw > > file /VM/distro/null.iso > > > > And do you really have /vm and /VM? Or is that a typo? You have not answered the

Re: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Peter Grehan
Have you tried using the CSM UEFI firmware that came in same bundle as the one above? It's worth a try. Unfortunately that is known not to work with Windows :( later, Peter. ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 27 Feb. 2018 5:07 pm, "wishmaster" wrote: > > > Boot Filed. UEFI Hard Drive > > Without parameter "-l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd" > bhyve does not start at all with error > > virtual machine cannot be booted. > > > Have you tried using the CSM UEFI firmware tha

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Jason Tubnor
On 27 Feb. 2018 5:07 pm, "wishmaster" wrote: Boot Filed. UEFI Hard Drive Without parameter "-l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd" bhyve does not start at all with error virtual machine cannot be booted. Have you tried using the CSM UEFI firmware that came in same bundle as

Re: bhyve and mmap(2)

2018-02-26 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Fabian, Would be possible to use mmap(2) around libvmmapi to map a file (MAP_PRIVATE) and or shared memory segments (MAP_SHARED) into guest physical address space? It currently isn't - doing that will just insert the mappings into the user process's view, and not into guest address space.

Re[2]: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread wishmaster
--- Original message --- From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Date: 26 February 2018, 17:08:06 > > > > ? > > > > --- Original message --- > > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" > > Date: 26 February 2018, 16:17:44 > > > > > > > > Hi, colleagues. > > > > > > > > There is a server running with Windows

Re: superfluous host interfaces

2018-02-26 Thread Paul Vixie
Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: Bezüglich Ruben's Nachricht vom 26.02.2018 11:34 (localtime): On 26/02/2018 10:56, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: … Another, personally very significant, reason is that you'll get a superfluous host interface for each if_bridge(4), which makes the output of plain ifconfi

Re: Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > ? > > --- Original message --- > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" > Date: 26 February 2018, 16:17:44 > > > > > Hi, colleagues. > > > > > > There is a server running with Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am attempting > > > launch this server in virtual environment as a back up. But there is one

Re[2]: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread wishmaster
  --- Original message --- From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Date: 26 February 2018, 16:17:44 > > Hi, colleagues. > > > > There is a server running with Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am attempting > > launch this server in virtual environment as a back up. But there is one > > big problem - I can

Re: Migrate from real server to virtual

2018-02-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hi, colleagues. > > There is a server running with Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am attempting > launch this server in virtual environment as a back up. But there is one big > problem - I can not shutdown this server. > My first step was creating a VHD image with help of Disk2vhd. Then a > con

Re: superfluous host interfaces

2018-02-26 Thread Ruben
Hi Harry, Following some examples in the presentation you linked, Im rather suprised that i'm apparently already utilizing the ng subsystem on some of my machines (ngctl list lists entries and a couple of hooks as well). Ill put a rig together for some playing around with the netgraph subsystem,

Re: superfluous host interfaces

2018-02-26 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Ruben's Nachricht vom 26.02.2018 11:34 (localtime): > On 26/02/2018 10:56, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: … >> Another, personally very significant, reason is that you'll get a >> superfluous host interface for each if_bridge(4), which makes the output >> of plain ifconfig(8) kind of unreadabl

superfluous host interfaces

2018-02-26 Thread Ruben
On 26/02/2018 10:56, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> Hi Harry, >> >> >> What are your reasons for preferring ng_bridge over the "normal" bridge? > Two very different main reasons: > if_bridge(4) is very standards compliant (e.g. that different reserved > MAC addresses won't get forwarded – don't know

Re: bhyve manager

2018-02-26 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Ruben's Nachricht vom 26.02.2018 10:15 (localtime): … > On 26/02/2018 10:09, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> Bezüglich tech-lists's Nachricht vom 25.02.2018 14:14 (localtime): >>> Hi, >>> >>> What do folks use for their bhyve guest management? >>> … >> Copy'n'pasting relevant lines from 'c

Re: bhyve manager

2018-02-26 Thread Ruben
Hi Harry, What are your reasons for preferring ng_bridge over the "normal" bridge? Kind regards, Ruben On 26/02/2018 10:09, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Bezüglich tech-lists's Nachricht vom 25.02.2018 14:14 (localtime): >> Hi, >> >> What do folks use for their bhyve guest management? >> >>

Re: bhyve manager

2018-02-26 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich tech-lists's Nachricht vom 25.02.2018 14:14 (localtime): > Hi, > > What do folks use for their bhyve guest management? > > I have always spun bhyve guests up by hand but now I'm considering > streamlining the process. What do you use? Just to feed the poll: Copy'n'pasting relevant lines