Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?

2011-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > Virtio drivers are coming. See: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-projects/2011-September/004361.html > > Great news, do you know if an MFC is planned?

Re: vboxdrv.ko loaded, but no /dev/vboxdrv

2011-10-12 Thread Adam Vande More
anks for any suggestions! > On a perfectly functioning vbox host, I don't have it either: galacticdominator% ls /dev/vboxdrv ls: /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory but I do have: galacticdominator% ls /dev/vboxdrv* /dev/vboxdrv0 -- Adam Vande More

Re: BHyVe under VMWare Workstation8/Player4/Fusion4

2012-02-06 Thread Adam Vande More
ation8 ? Most likely. > Some of these people these people report differently and as well as someone I know. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20589 -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: VirtualBox drama - failing VDI disks, VM not starting headless, Rebuild problems on 8.2 (clang related problem?) and 9-STABLE (libpcre.so.0)

2012-04-01 Thread Adam Vande More
; ports(4.1.18). > > Sorry, it is 4.1.8. > This mailing list is used for virtualization issues like VIMAGE. Questions concerning VirtualBox go to freebsd-emulation@ AFAICT, that error message is related to a permissions issue. Can you supply the VM log when you post

Re: VirtualBox problem booting FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso

2012-04-16 Thread Adam Vande More
using 32 anyway. 32 bit OS's and apps use less memory than their corresponding 64 bit counterparts. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsu

Re: [Announcement] VPS // OS Virtualization // alpha release

2012-09-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Klaus P. Ohrhallinger wrote: > Hello! > > I'm pleased to announce the first feature-complete alpha version > of my virtualization project VPS: > > http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/ > > Looks very promising, can't wait to

Re: Best VM setup for FreeBSD

2013-06-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:26 AM, TJ wrote: > > I have been looking into VirtualBox. > > My biggest hurdle at the moment is getting multiple hosts on one machine > and setting up the VRDE to use different ports. Works great for me. --

Re: Is it possible to install a VirtualBox_Extension_Pack in FreeBSD 9.1

2013-07-25 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I'm trying to get USB support in a Windows7 guest under FreeBSD > 9.1-RELEASE. > > I've read that I need this Extension Pack > https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox#USB_

Re: RFC: Changes to handbook on virtualization

2013-10-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Dee Nixon wrote: > Must have been a brief temporary glitch. The link is indeed working: > > http://www.petitecloud.org/handbook.jsp > > It's not resolving here from 2 different dns paths.

Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Peter Grehan wrote: > > > > > > > If you create a sparse file for the bhyve raw disk (e.g. with truncate > > -s), du will show the actual blocks used rather than the total size. > > > But can I truncat

Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > bhyve (as far I know) disks must be one solid file (md backed) or a /dev > block device... therefore it is unlikely the above would work > The reported size would be identical so I don't see what the problem is. -- Adam __

Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > bhyve blindly read/writes into the middle of the file without consulting > the filesystem and thus bypassing any things like sparse fill in namely > all you gain is a few seconds of startup time (matter of fact I think > truncate might u

Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > It sounds almost identical to the qcow2 security issue being discussed on > qemu-de...@qemu.org recently. This might be a *HUGE* win for bhyve then > in considering that it's default format is raw (should ahci-hdd be the > default?). d

Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve

2014-02-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Aryeh Friedman >> wrote: >> >>> >>> It sounds almost identical to the qcow2

Re: Issues gatewaying through Hyper-V

2015-10-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Larry Baird wrote: > I have two identical setups on Hyper-V 2012R2 and Hype-V windows 10. > > I have two FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p6 Hyper-V hosts in both cases. > The first FreeBSD host (client) has one NIC configured to use a Private > network. The second (gateway)

Re: C bhyve administration tool

2015-11-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Shawn Debnath wrote: > Hello! > > Couple months ago I started writing a bhyve management tool in C for our > startup, in preparation for migration to FreeBSD for our servers. The > goal was to be able to create, drop, and auto-start/stop/restart VMs, > individually

Re: vm-bhyve port upgrade

2015-11-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization wrote: > Hello, > > For anyone interested I have submitted a PR to update the version of > vm-bhyve in the ports tree. > Primarily this fixes the off-putting, but completely benign error printed > when users run 'vm init'

Re: vm-bhyve port upgrade

2015-11-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Matt Churchyard wrote: > > I am now looking at actually implementing static macs for all interfaces, > as I’d rather guests saw the same mac address every run just in case they > tie configuration to the mac (important for vm-bhyve as simply starting > guests in a

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-12-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Peter Ross wrote: > Hi all, > > I read through an older threat I kept in my archive. It started like this: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Udo Rader wrote: > > As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four hypervisors: >> >> * bhyve >> * KVM >> * QEMU >> *

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-12-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > I agree that VirtualBox is really stable, and I'm using it in production > environments for many years. However, there are a couple of possible > drawbacks: It does not support VRDP (remote console) and USB2/3 on FreeBSD. > > Tha latter

Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD

2015-12-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > > Remote console is available via VNC, not RDP. > > It is VNC, and I use it Linux hosts, it's rather confusing since the option > is "--vrde on|off". See https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2013-January/010354.html

Bhyve guest ntp server woes

2015-12-23 Thread Adam Vande More
I am unable to get a 10.2 bhyve ntp server to be stable. Most configurations of kern.timecounter.* sysctl kern.eventtimer.* in the guest seem to make little difference, however kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 does seem to stabilize it a little. However after some runtime, I get very high jitter and

Re: floppy image in bhyve

2016-01-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > Yes, that a good idea especially taking into account that I have many > variables. I'm trying to migrate Windows 7 on an encrypted volume from > VBox to bhyve. > Another option would be to migrate to GELI, possibly on a ZVOL if availab

Re: Re-sparse a file-backed IO device + zfs

2016-12-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 7:20 PM, javocado wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a bhyve wherein: > > host # truncate -s 1T vol.file > host # du -ah vol.file > 200Kvol.file > > host # /usr/sbin/bhyve ... -s 4,ahci-hd,vol.file ... > > Then inside the bhyve I create a zpool (ada0 = vol.file): > > b

Re: Storage overhead on zvols

2017-12-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Dustin Wenz wrote: > I'm starting a new thread based on the previous discussion in "bhyve uses > all available memory during IO-intensive operations" relating to size > inflation of bhyve data stored on zvols. I've done some experimenting with > this, and I think i

Re: NFS alternatives (was: Re: Storage overhead on zvols)

2017-12-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hi all, > > > Am 05.12.2017 um 17:41 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>: > > In effect what your asking for is what NFS does, so use NFS and get > > over the fact that this is the way to get what you want. S