Extra dependency of the uefi-edk2-bhyve-csm firmware port

2021-03-16 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Why do you think sysutils/uefi-edk2-bhyve-csm would have a runtime (!) dependency on gcc48 ? PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254257 -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
Lars Engels wrote: > > > > Thank you, I think I can start testing various DEs. I've created a small > > how-to in Russian: https://victor-sudakov.dreamwidth.org/487181.html > > Deepl.com did a great job translating it: A surprisingly good result for a machine tran

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
t working with xfce and gdm (from gnome3). Had to set xhci_mouse="no", which means that the mouse pointer in the VM is not quite in sync with the real mouse pointer, but the GUI starts all right! Thank you, I think I can start testing various DEs. I've created a small how-to in Russi

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
tom): > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/UEFI Jason and Rodney, thanks, it's useful to know, though for the present I was happy enough with the serial console installation. Now I'd like to concentrate on the question how to start a graphical desktop environment in a bhyve guest. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
fer devices > > (EE) > > (EE) > > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support > > at http://wiki.x.org > > for help. > > (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional > > information. > > (EE) >

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
no, not manual, but not bsdinstall either. I see. Well, I personally like bsdinstall for simple cases. It's a pity it cannot automagically create a EFI partition when installing on UFS. But its ZFS installation routine is neat, and "bsdinstall jail" too. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
east that's what I figure he suggests. Start a virtual frame buffer server > like Xvnc and connect to that via VNC. I wonder if Gnome/KDE would recognize Xvnc as the local graphical console. If anyone has success stories, please share. Or at least please give a step-by-stop instruction fo

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
nstaller, alongside with the UFS and swap partitions. bsdinstall can create and populate the EFI partition when installing on ZFS, but not when installing on UFS. > Not sure what the failure is here. I usually > install MBR/(UFS or ZFS) so this is not a use case for me. How do you create th

Re: Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
original message)? Does a Gnome/KDE desktop running on a dummy video driver have any value? Please elaborate. > and a remote X11 session over ssh It is not running X-clients over SSH forwarding that I'm looking for. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet ht

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Fine, I will experiment with that. Maybe Gnome or xfce will recognize > this console as a monitor. > > Thank you for the hint, Rodney! Nope, would not run for me in the VNC console (see below). Did you do anything special? /usr/local/bin/startxfce4: St

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Henrik Gulbrandsen wrote: > > > On 2019-12-01 06:35, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > If I were to test different desktop environments (gnome, xfce etc) in a > > > > FreeBSD guest in bhyve, what X server (probably with vnc access, or

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
Henrik Gulbrandsen wrote: > On 2019-12-01 06:35, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > If I were to test different desktop environments (gnome, xfce etc) in a > > FreeBSD guest in bhyve, what X server (probably with vnc access, or rdp > > access, or whatever?) would you advise? > &

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
c console. Does your FreeBSD guest see this vnc console as a video card suitable for running a local X-server? What driver? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
I can install it in the guest VM and make it output to my FreeBSD desktop. I don't even think SSH X11 forwarding will be required, just setting the $DISPLAY variable appropriately? But first of all, how do you make Gnome or KDE use Xephyr as a local X-server? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, V

Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-11-30 Thread Victor Sudakov
from guest to host, or drawing to a remote $DISPLAY on the host. Any advice what to install on the guest and how to start it there? I would probably need to persuade the Gnome/XFCE on the guest that the guest has a monitor and video card... -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49

Re: [vm-bhyve] adding existing vm instances to the vm-bhyve system

2019-05-13 Thread Victor Sudakov
" the vm dataset on the old host and "zfs receive" it on the new host under the $vm_dir. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

sysutils/docker-freebsd ?

2019-05-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Do you know if there are plans to revive sysutils/docker-freebsd? It has been "broken" for 2 months, and the FreeBSD Wiki says that docker-freebsd is the recommended way of running docker apps. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://va

Re: [vm-bhyve] shutting down VMs and kern.init_shutdown_timeout

2019-04-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
Adam wrote: > > > Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > > > > > Am 28.04.2019 um 06:41 schrieb Victor Sudakov : > > > > "if the /etc/rc.shutdown does not terminate within 120 seconds, init > > will > > > > ter

Re: [vm-bhyve] shutting down VMs and kern.init_shutdown_timeout

2019-04-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Am 28.04.2019 um 06:41 schrieb Victor Sudakov : > > "if the /etc/rc.shutdown does not terminate within 120 seconds, init will > > terminate it. The timeout can be configured via the sysctl variable > > kern.init_shutdown_timeo

[vm-bhyve] shutting down VMs and kern.init_shutdown_timeout

2019-04-27 Thread Victor Sudakov
VM shutdown? Or I may be assuming incorrectly about the 2 minutes timeout. Please correct me then. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-25 Thread Victor Sudakov
ut any haste, as it pleases, and at the very end "apcupsd --killpower" is called and poweroffs the UPS. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-24 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > For the present I think I've found a workaround not directly related to > vm-bhyve. I'm going to insert "service vm stop" into the doshutdown() > procedure in /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/apccontrol before the actual > ${SHUTDOWN}. It sho

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-23 Thread Victor Sudakov
VM's to go power off. I can configure apcupsd to start the doshutdown() routine when there is enough power in the UPS, like maybe for 20-30 minutes. > > > If you know of a better way to configure apcupsd so that it powers down > > > the UPS only after all the guest OSes an

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-23 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > I've noticed that it takes too long for Windows 2012 and 2016 servers > guests to shutdown when I issue "vm stopall," several minutes even. > > Does vm-bhyve provide a way to power them off ungracefully if they would > not stop within a

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Paul Vixie wrote: > > Victor Sudakov wrote on 2019-04-22 19:43: > ... > >> And the implementation is pretty brutal: > >> # 'vm stopall' > >> # stop all bhyve instances > >> # note this will also stop instances not started by vm-bhyve > &

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: [dd] > > > > It may be possile to adjust vm_delay to 0 and have that be better, > > > > though I have not locked at the code. You may also wish to discuss > > > > the issue with the vm-bhyve maintainer and maybe a "lights out"

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
e ClearPageFileAtShutdown setting was 0x0. I think it is the default. > > > It may be possile to adjust vm_delay to 0 and have that be better, > > > though I have not locked at the code. You may also wish to discuss > > > the issue with the vm-bhyve maintainer and maybe a "lights out" > > > procedure needs to be added. What is needed in vm-bhyve is the feature that if ACPI does not stop the guest for a predefined period of time, the guest is powered off. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Subbsd wrote: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 11:15 AM Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > I'll look into the VirtualBox directory tomorrow and report here. I was > > under the impression that efivars are stored in a configuration file in > > the EFI partition but I was probably

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > Jason Tubnor wrote: > > > On Sun., 21 Apr. 2019, 2:51 pm Victor Sudakov, > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does vm-bhyve provide a way to power them

Re: [vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Jason Tubnor wrote: > On Sun., 21 Apr. 2019, 2:51 pm Victor Sudakov, wrote: > > > > > > > Does vm-bhyve provide a way to power them off ungracefully if they would > > not stop within a predefined time? > > > > You'd have to do your own checking

[vm-bhyve] Windows 2012 and 2016 servers guests would not stop

2019-04-20 Thread Victor Sudakov
this model does not support it. And it would mean a race condition anyway. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

zvol vs sparse-zvol vs file

2019-04-14 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Is there any difference in guest performance between zvol, sparse-zvol and file backends? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Windows 2019 server

2019-04-13 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > I've just installed "Windows Server 2016" on 11.2-RELEASE-p9 and it is very > slow. Windows 2012 R2 ran much faster AFAIR. > > I don't think this is the ahci-hd issue because the Novabench Windows > benchmark in the guest VM s

Re: Windows 2019 server

2019-04-12 Thread Victor Sudakov
7;t think this is the ahci-hd issue because the Novabench Windows benchmark in the guest VM shows read and write speeds over 1 GB/s, isn't it more than enough? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > I'll look into the VirtualBox directory tomorrow and report here. > > > > > > I searched through my disk and was unable to find a persistant efivars > > > storage in my VirtualBox 6.0 installation. > > > > &

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
ed by default, whatever (it's written in https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=402022&sid=02333b87a8a2bba99383449fc08ca317#p402022 ) > > aka source code thet implements efivars stored in nvram. Anyway, I could not find a file in my virtualbox directory which would look like a storage with NVRAM data. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > As I stated earlier bhyve is missing percistant efi variables, > > and that is most likely the reason that VirtualBox just works > > and bhyve does not. > > > > Probably you well find in your VirtualBox directory a > > f

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
ture request? > > > > It is very important to find and debug it because Oracle VirtualBox in > > UEFI mode installs and runs this guest just fine. So it must be some > > issue in bhyve itself. > > As I stated earlier bhyve is missing percistant efi variables, > and that is most likely the reason that VirtualBox just works > and bhyve does not. > > Probably you well find in your VirtualBox directory a > file that is used to store efivars, that is where the I'll look into the VirtualBox directory tomorrow and report here. I was under the impression that efivars are stored in a configuration file in the EFI partition but I was probably wrong, they are kept in NVRAM somewhere, like BIOS settings, and not on a disk. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
ou can even > > get a conflict of labels or something like that one day. > > So it may take a few more commands but it should be > possible to do this from the host side using host > side tools without having to boot a guest to make > these corrections. I'm not aware of s

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-06 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > > I can guess that it looks for a FAT16 partition in the GPT with the > > > > > type > > > > > "efi" but the rest is a mystery for me. Why is it trying to find > > > > > "grubx64.efi&

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-06 Thread Victor Sudakov
rdized file paths to the OS loader, with the path varying depending on the computer architecture. The format of the file path is defined as /EFI/BOOT/BOOT.EFI; for example, the file path to the OS loader on an x86-64 system is /efi/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI and efi\boot\bootaa64.efi on ARM64 architecture. Nothing about grub*.efi. But only bhyve is confused, VirtualBox is not. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-06 Thread Victor Sudakov
me. > > That is done with an efivar, as it stands right now bhyve efi has > no persistant variable storage, a feature that needs to be implemented. I see. [dd] > > > I can guess that it looks for a FAT16 partition in the GPT with the type > > "efi" but the rest

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-05 Thread Victor Sudakov
ve: namely how and where it looks for what on boot, and if I can create a menu for example, or change its startup procedure. I can guess that it looks for a FAT16 partition in the GPT with the type "efi" but the rest is a mystery for me. Why is it trying to find "grubx64.efi"

Re: running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-05 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Has anyone tried to run FreePBX under bhyve? That's what I get trying to > start the vm after a successful automatic install from the ISO image: > > Boot Failed. EFI DVD/CDROM > Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter > Failed to open \

running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

2019-04-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
quot; disk0_dev="zvol" graphics="yes" graphics_wait="no" graphics_res="1280x720" graphics_port="5909" graphics_listen="192.168.4.1" xhci_mouse="yes" uuid="4c1871cb-56f1-11e9-bdbf-5404a6b49a66" network0_mac="58:9c:fc:0b:85:76" -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: bhyve and vfs.zfs.arc_max, and zfs tuning for a hypervisor

2019-03-20 Thread Victor Sudakov
uest uses, all modern OSes have disk caches)? What do VMWare or VirtualBox do for this situation? Do they ever cache their volumes in the hypervisor's RAM? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: bhyve and vfs.zfs.arc_max, and zfs tuning for a hypervisor

2019-03-19 Thread Victor Sudakov
evice > to my spinning disk pool - seems to work great. This is on a home system. Is SLOG also used by zfs volumes? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bhyve and vfs.zfs.arc_max, and zfs tuning for a hypervisor

2019-03-18 Thread Victor Sudakov
s can you suggest for a bhyve hypervisor? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Windows 2019 server

2019-03-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
Jason Tubnor wrote: > > > Which kind of storage did you present to the Windows 2019 guest, > > paravirtualized or ahcd-hd ? > > ahci-hd is what you want with bhyve and uefi Still no paravirtualized disks support for Windows guests, even in FreeBSD 12? How sad. -- Victo

Re: Windows 2019 server

2019-03-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
w. Worked like a > charm. Which kind of storage did you present to the Windows 2019 guest, paravirtualized or ahcd-hd ? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-26 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > Therefore I ask again if someone has an actual success story of running > > > a Windows guest on a virtio-blk device. > > > > Hi Viktor > > > > Looking through my notes I'm not using virtio-blk I think, but I had > &

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-26 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, at 21:43, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > The guest installer says that there are no disks to install to and no > > drivers, and suggests a driver to be loaded. It can be told to find the > > appropriate driver in my virtio-win-0.1.141.

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-24 Thread Victor Sudakov
driver to be loaded. It can be told to find the appropriate driver in my virtio-win-0.1.141.iso CD: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/bhyve1.png but when it begins loading the viostor driver, the VM crashes with "bhyve exited with status 134" Therefore I ask again if someone has an actual su

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-24 Thread Victor Sudakov
driver to be loaded. It can be told to find the appropriate driver in my virtio-win-0.1.141.iso CD: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/bhyve1.png but when it begins loading the viostor driver, the VM crashes with "bhyve exited with status 134" Therefore I ask again if someone has an actual su

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-17 Thread Victor Sudakov
Jason Tubnor wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 02:58, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > > Or at least please tell me how I can attach another iso image (with > > drivers) when running "vm install myhost windows.iso" > > > Technically, you should be abl

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-17 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > If anyone has been successful with viostor(?), please share your experience. Or at least please tell me how I can attach another iso image (with drivers) when running "vm install myhost windows.iso" -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-16 Thread Victor Sudakov
iostor(?), please share your experience. I would be especially grateful for instruction how to install Windows on a viostor disk instead of ahci-hd. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-14 Thread Victor Sudakov
moment. I > would avoid 12.0-RELEASE as it may introduce other issues with your I was just worried that using ahci-hd instead of paravirtualized disks causes suboptimal performance of guests. Do you think there is a hope to get paravirtualized disks support for Windows guests in bh

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-12 Thread Victor Sudakov
SE and newer. Is it worth it? I mean upgrading from 11.2-RELEASE to 12.0-RELEASE for the sake of nvme, is it useful for running FreeBSD, Linux (Mint, Centos) and Windows10 guests? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-02-12 Thread Victor Sudakov
What's that disk0_type="nvme" thing? I'm curious. In 11.2-RELEASE there is nothing about nvme in bhyve(8). Should I be running CURRENT or what? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: mounting/exporting/importing a zfs volume

2019-02-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
taset. Just what you need for nearly identical VMs. I've preferred disk0_dev="zvol" VMs for aesthetical reasons since vm-bhyve started supporting them. Those file-based VMs get in the way while backing up $vm_dir, and their disks are not visible in "zfs list -t volume" -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: mounting/exporting/importing a zfs volume

2019-02-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
eed, I can dd the volume to a regular file: dd if=/dev/zvol/zroot/vm/mail/disk0 of=/var/tmp/rawimage bs=1m conv=sparse and then work with the /var/tmp/rawimage (I can mdconfig it) but it's a waste of disk space. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://v

mounting/exporting/importing a zfs volume

2019-02-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
/dev/zvol/zroot/vm/mail/disk0 mdconfig: /dev/zvol/zroot/vm/mail/disk0 is not a regular file root@newserv:~ # Also, how can I exchange those zfs volumes for use with other hypervisors? They are not real raw disk files so I cannot use sysutils/vmdktool etc. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47

Re: bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
eDOS_better.3F FreeDOS has "UDMA drivers for hard disks and DVD drives", is it not the thing? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https:/

Re: bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
bhyve, would that be ever possible? > > The older ED2K uefi that we are using and > some of the hatchetry that was used to craft > its CSM are in a poor state and could use > some love. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ __

Re: bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Jason Barbier wrote: > Nope I don't use vm-bhyve I use some scrips I home rolled. The os I was > booting with CSM was arch linux. Why would you want to boot Arch Linux with CSM? It should be possible to boot it either with grub2-bhyve or with UEFI. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, V

Re: bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
e (uefi-edk2-bhyve-csm-0.1,1) > To answer the question you asked when I run a vm with the CSM firmware it > works for me. Do you also use vm-bhyve and most importantly, what OS do you boot with CSM firmware? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49

bhyve uefi="csm"

2018-10-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Has anyone been able to boot *anything* with uefi="csm"? Can you please share at least one success story? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.o

Re: [vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
sk0.img" > Dear Josias, If you have a success story with uefi="csm", please share more detail with us. Does uefi="csm" fork for anyone? Can you boot MS-DOS in bhyve, for example? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://va

Re: [vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
guest are lost > on restart. Did not have this problem with Mint. > I had to escape to the EFI shell and manually choose the > EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi loader. See my post #11 on this forum post > for more details - > https://forums.freebs

Re: [vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
uot;virtio-net" > network0_switch="public" > disk0_type="virtio-blk" > disk0_name="disk0.img" > > **I did have two fairly annoying issues getting 16.04 to work - Thank you for the hints. Will try them tonight. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-R

Re: [vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
stalled. But no harm installing it also. bhyve-rc-3: "FreeBSD RC script for starting bhyve guests in tmux" - I definitely don't need it because I use vm-bhyve for VM management. libhyve-remote-0.1.4.2: well, maybe this one is the culprit. We shall see tonight if its presence makes an

Re: [vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Josias L. Gonçalves wrote: > > > My ubuntu is something like that: > > > > > > uefi="csm" > > ^^^ > > > > This is supposed to be the key feature! I did not know about

Re: [vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > Josias L. Gonçalves wrote: > > My ubuntu is something like that: > > > > uefi="csm" > ^^^ > > This is supposed to be the key feature! I did not know about UEFI-CSM. > > However, when I start the vm: > &g

Re: [vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
1280x720" graphics_port="5909" graphics_listen="0.0.0.0" #xhci_mouse="yes" uuid="f9bbfaab-cafc-11e8-8d16-5404a6b49a66" network0_mac="58:9c:fc:08:91:3d" -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

[vm-bhyve] Does anyone have a vm template for Linux Mint ?

2018-10-06 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Can anyone please share a vm template for the installation of Linux Mint 19? It seems to have only a GUI installer so the loader should be set to "uefi" instead of "grub" to enable the VNC console, but how do I accomplish this? Thanks in advance for an

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-13 Thread Victor Sudakov
if I can install just one (or some) package from a different repo, the official one still remaining the default? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859 ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-13 Thread Victor Sudakov
Matt Churchyard wrote: > wired_memory option has been added to next release. Thanks a lot, Matt! May I ask a question: how is the "-S" option supposed to work if the loader is not bhyveload, but grub2-bhyve or UEFI? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-13 Thread Victor Sudakov
t; disk0_name="disk0.img" utctime="yes" uuid="e148afdb-d4af-11e6-9a94-5404a6b49a66" network0_mac="58:9c:fc:01:f6:ac" bhyve_options="-S" -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859 ___ freebs

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-12 Thread Victor Sudakov
priate. > > I made several attempts to contact the author at the email address > provided at the git hub while making other bhyve changes to try > and coordinate with him. I got no response after 3 attempts, > so have stopped trying to contact them. (This was while I was > adding t

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
option in the vm config, > > why not put "-S" there, is that what you mean by wiring the vm in > > memory? > > I believe that fails as that only adds the -S to bhyve, and > you must specify it both on bhyveload and bhyve for it to > work. I think it is totally d

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
gement etc. > > Though it has a lot of features, it also has some short comings, > like you can not spec a vm to be wired in memory, which IMHO is > the only way to insure consistent VM performance. Well, we have "bhyve_options" configuration option in the vm config, why

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh. I don't use any > third-party utility to manage bhyve VMs. vmrun.sh is pretty > straight-forward. Thanks for replying. However, I highly recommend vm-bhyve, maybe you should give it a try. You will love the ease of VM creation and provisioning, netw

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
> Booting in UEFI mode works. > > > > Chokes in my case. > > I have better luck with Debian. Yes, Ubuntu server works too, but do we have anything RPM-based that runs in bhyve? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859 ___

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
Shawn Webb wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:53:05PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > The Doctor via freebsd-virtualization wrote: > > > Are there issues with Current CEntos and bhyve? > > > > Sure there are, please look at > > https://bugs.freebsd

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-11 Thread Victor Sudakov
per/centos-root does not exist Generating "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue. Type "journalctl" to view system logs. You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or /boot after mounti

Re: Curent Centos 7 and bhyve

2018-08-10 Thread Victor Sudakov
skewered. Duh! -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859 ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Outdated grub2-bhyve and booting Centos7

2018-08-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Colleagues, Can I draw your attention to https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230453 please? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859 ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: choice of i386 vs amd64 guest

2016-10-18 Thread Victor Sudakov
uest. There is an opinion that 64-bit systems use up more resources than 32-bit ones for the same tasks, it that not true? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://li

choice of i386 vs amd64 guest

2016-10-17 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, When I must run several FreeBSD guests in bhyve, should I prefer i386 or amd64 guests provided a guest will never need more than 2-3 GB of RAM? The bhyve host is of course amd64. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru

Re: Time sync

2016-10-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
al systems. Thank you. I just thought there was a way to sync guests from host, but if there is none - let it be ntpd. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://list

Re: Multiple VM hosting using bhyve

2016-09-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
The Doctor wrote: > > All right, what bhyve sequence do I need to > distinguish the taps and the guests? I would strongly advise installing ports/sysutils/vm-bhyve, It makes VM management very easy and convenient. No need to learn the low-level bhyve options. -- Victor Sudakov,

Time sync

2016-09-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, Do FreeBSD guests in bhyve need time synchronization (a running ntpd or periodic ntpdate), or do they inherit accurate time from the host system? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru ___ freebsd

Re: feature request

2016-08-22 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Could you add a very useful feature? I would greatly appreciate being > able to view and delete VM snapshots via the "vm" subcommand. > Presently I have to use the zfs interface directly. Also, "vm destroy" does not destroy VMs, if they

feature request

2016-08-20 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dear Matt, Could you add a very useful feature? I would greatly appreciate being able to view and delete VM snapshots via the "vm" subcommand. Presently I have to use the zfs interface directly. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptu

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-10 Thread Victor Sudakov
the idea and get a separate box with FreeBSD 11 for UEFI-GOP testing. Matt and others, thanks for the effort. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.free

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-10 Thread Victor Sudakov
t exits with error code 1 and without printing anytning. I have recompiled bhyve itself and the libvmmapi, maybe it's not enough? The kernel module? It still remains that from 10.3 -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
twork0_type="virtio-net" network0_switch="isolated" disk0_type="ahci-hd" disk0_name="disk0.img" debug="yes" uuid="093f9134-5e18-11e6-9502-5404a6b49a66" network0_mac="58:9c:fc:03:77:3b" root@vas:/d02/vm/win # I have tried replicating

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
5: [bhyve devices: -s 0,hostbridge -s 31,lpc -s 4:0,ahci-hd,/d02/vm/win/disk0.img -s 5:0,virtio-net,tap5,mac=58:9c:fc:03:77:3b -s 6:0,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5900,wait] авг 09 17:01:05: [bhyve console: -l com1,/dev/nmdm0A] авг 09 17:01:05: [bhyve iso device: -s 3:0,ahci-cd,/d02/vm/.iso/bhyve_win7_x64

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
erent branch without > > compiling the whole world. make what? > > For bhyve it's easy. Check out the sources, go to usr.sbin/bhyve and run > > make depend; make obj; make; make install. Unfortunately, after all my efforts, with libvmmapi and bhyve compiled from CURRE

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