BAR and pci passthrough

2016-12-10 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
In reply to https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2015-December/004000.html >/>> The problem probably that the length of the bar is smaller and not />/>> aligned with the pagesize. Could the length of the BAR be modified in />/>> order to perform the pci passthrough? />/> />/

Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym with UEFI-edk2-bootrom and bhyve(8)

2016-12-11 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Dear all, booting guests with uefi-edk2 bootrom works great, thanks for that great support! Unfortunately the VNC part seems to have keyscan problems: Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xc4 Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xf6 Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xff7f Just to list a view... Th

Jumbo frames truncated at 4084 bytes by virtio-net? (using if_bridge(4) and vtnet(4) with mtu 9000)

2016-12-21 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Hello, I'm having guest connectivity problems with jumbo frames. Since if_bridge(4) requires all interfaces to have the same MTU (and the uplink interface also handles iscsi traffic, which greatly benefits from jumbo frames), I 'ifconfig create vmnet0 mtu 9000' Afert adding it to the bridge 'if

Re: Jumbo frames truncated at 4084 bytes by virtio-net? (using if_bridge(4) and vtnet(4) with mtu 9000)

2016-12-21 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 21.12.2016 17:08 (localtime): … > Guest flow: > 16:57:06.642073 00:a0:98:73:9f:42 > 96:07:e9:78:c6:ac, ethertype IPv4 > (0x0800), length 4085: 172.21.35.1 > 172.21.35.32: ICMP echo request, id > 27401, seq 0, length 4051 > 16:57:06.642233 96:07:e9:78:c

Re: Jumbo frames truncated at 4084 bytes by virtio-net? (using if_bridge(4) and vtnet(4) with mtu 9000)

2016-12-22 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Andrey V. Elsukov's Nachricht vom 22.12.2016 11:13 (localtime): > On 21.12.2016 19:08, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm having guest connectivity problems with jumbo frames. >> >> Since if_bridge(4) requires all interfaces to hav

ASM1062 AHCI timeouts, ppt(4) BAR aligning [Was: Re: svn commit: r309251 - head/sys/dev/ahci]

2016-12-29 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Alexander Motin's Nachricht vom 28.11.2016 17:23 (localtime): > Author: mav > Date: Mon Nov 28 16:23:32 2016 > New Revision: 309251 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/309251 > > Log: > Process port interrupt even is PxIS register is zero. > > ASMedia ASM1062 AHCI chi

Re: ASM1062 AHCI timeouts, ppt(4) BAR aligning [Was: Re: svn commit: r309251 - head/sys/dev/ahci]

2016-12-29 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Alexander Motin's Nachricht vom 29.12.2016 11:32 (localtime): > On 29.12.2016 10:35, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> I'd like to report that this doesn't fix timeouts for me (applied to >> 11-stable). >> >> For example my REV120 works without pr

Re: Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym with UEFI-edk2-bootrom and bhyve(8)

2017-01-03 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Peter Grehan's Nachricht vom 13.12.2016 06:57 (localtime): > Hi Harry, > >> Unfortunately the VNC part seems to have keyscan problems: >> Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xc4 >> Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xf6 >> Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xff7f >> Just to list a view...

Re: Jumbo frames truncated at 4084 bytes by virtio-net? (using if_bridge(4) and vtnet(4) with mtu 9000)

2017-01-03 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 21.12.2016 17:40 (localtime): > Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 21.12.2016 17:08 (localtime): > > … >> Guest flow: >> 16:57:06.642073 00:a0:98:73:9f:42 > 96:07:e9:78:c6:ac, ethertype IPv4 >> (0x0800), length 4085: 172.21.35.1 > 172.21.35.3

pci_virtio_block.c Assertion failed: line 216

2017-01-03 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Dear all, trying to use bhyve(8) with virtio-blk and Windows guest results in core dump: Assertion failed: (n >= 2 && n <= BLOCKIF_IOV_MAX + 2), function pci_vtblk_proc, file usr.sbin/bhyve/pci_virtio_block.c, line 216. Abort trap (cor

Re: [Bug 215740] [bhyve] utilizing passthru breaks raw device usage with virtio-blk | ahci-hd

2017-01-09 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org's Nachricht vom 04.01.2017 21:37 (localtime): > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215740 > … > --- Comment #1 from Peter Grehan --- > Would you be able to post a verbose dmesg (boot -v) ? Due to lack of knowledge I experimented with BIOS VT-

Re: Zvol, Bhyve/Pfsense and config restore

2017-02-09 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Rajil Saraswat's Nachricht vom 09.02.2017 14:04 (localtime): > Hello, > > I am trying to setup a pfsense instance under bhyve. Until now i had a > standalone machine for pfsense but it is going away for RMA so i am > trying to replace it with a bhyve instance. The /cf/conf/config.xml fil

Re: Zvol, Bhyve/Pfsense and config restore

2017-02-09 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Rajil Saraswat's Nachricht vom 09.02.2017 15:51 (localtime): > How can i access the vm filesystem on the host? >> >> Which volmode is in use for vmpool/os5 ('zfs get volmode vmpool/os5')? >> >> I don't know what patritioning scheme pfsens uses, but 'gpart show >> /dev/zvol/vmpool/os5' wo

Re: Providing serial consoles to multiple bhyve guests

2017-02-17 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich C. L. Martinez's Nachricht vom 17.02.2017 15:29 (localtime): > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:36:52PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >> Bezüglich C. L. Martinez's Nachricht vom 17.02.2017 09:50 (localtime): … >>> I have tried to add vnc channel, but it doesn't works ..:( >> I haven't ha

Re: [CFT] emulators/open-vm-tools{,-nox11} update to 10.1.0

2017-03-01 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Steve Wills's Nachricht vom 01.03.2017 06:57 (localtime): > Hi All, > > Thanks to everyone who tested. > > I've updated the patch and packages in the same location and fixed a > number of issues. Please re-test if you can. > > The only remaining issue that I know of is building with libu

Re: tap on lagg ?

2017-03-21 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Vincent Olivier's Nachricht vom 20.03.2017 23:32 (localtime): > Hello, > > Sorry for waiting so long. I don’t know if i’m doing it right but I tried « > -vlanhwtag » all the interfaces and I’m still having problems. Namely (as I > didn’t have this information before) that all particip

Re: tap on lagg ?

2017-03-21 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Vincent Olivier's Nachricht vom 21.03.2017 16:51 (localtime): > Hi, I can confirm that ping works but ssh and (I haven’t tried anything else, > but I assume you are right) TCP as a whole doesn’t work. > > From there, I guess that, since I haven’t changed the MTU on the 1G > interfaces

Re: What is the recommended version of virtio-win for bhyve

2017-04-07 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Christian Stærk's Nachricht vom 07.04.2017 13:15 (localtime): > Hello, > > I am trying to get Windows 10 up and running on bhyve on a FreeBSD > 11.0 host. > > The installation went smooth and I have Windows running on the > framebuffer. > > I installed the NetKVM driver from virtio-win-0

11.1-pre runtime Undefined symbol "xdr_accepted_reply" /lib/libc.so.7

2017-06-06 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Hello, suddenly, I'm getting this error: /lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "xdr_accepted_reply" Very mysterious: It showed up on a running system, which worked flawlessly for some hours. And that host has root-fs (/) mounted readonly from a memorydisk. So to my understanding, it's completely impo

PCIe passthrough really that expensive?

2017-06-07 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Hello, some might have noticed my numerous posts recently, mainly in freebsd-net@, but all around the same story – replacing ESXi. So I hope nobody minds if I ask for help again to alleviate some of my knowledge deficiencies about PCIePassThrough. As last resort for special VMs, I always used to

Re: PCIe passthrough really that expensive?

2017-06-09 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Anish's Nachricht vom 08.06.2017 14:35 (localtime): > Hi Harry, >>I thought I'd save these expensive VM_Exits by using the passthru path. > Completely wrong, is it? > > It depends on which processor you are using. For example APICv was > introduced in IvyBridge which enabled h/w assisted

Re: PCIe passthrough really that expensive?

2017-06-11 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 09.06.2017 10:22 (localtime): > Bezüglich Anish's Nachricht vom 08.06.2017 14:35 (localtime): >> Hi Harry, >>> I thought I'd save these expensive VM_Exits by using the passthru path. >> Completely wrong, is it? >> >> It depends on which processor you ar

panic: Memory modified after free in zio_create, passthru in use [Was: 11.1-pre runtime Undefined symbol "xdr_accepted_reply" /lib/libc.so.7]

2017-06-11 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 06.06.2017 14:03 (localtime): > Hello, > > suddenly, I'm getting this error: > /lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "xdr_accepted_reply" > > Very mysterious: It showed up on a running system, which worked > flawlessly for some hours. And that host has root

Re: VNC stuff

2017-06-12 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Zane C. B-H.'s Nachricht vom 12.06.2017 19:30 (localtime): > On 2017-06-12 09:39, Peter Grehan wrote: >> Hi Zane, >> >>> I assume that means the VNC/fbuf stuff as well? Not seeing that that >>> currently in 11-STABLE. >> >> Sure you don't mean 10-STABLE ? The uefi graphics code was comm

Re: VNC stuff

2017-06-13 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Rodney W. Grimes's Nachricht vom 13.06.2017 03:02 (localtime): > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] >> Bez?glich Zane C. B-H.'s Nachricht vom 12.06.2017 19:30 (localtime): >>> On 2017-06-12 09:39, Peter Grehan wrote: Hi Zane, > I assume that means the VNC/fbu

Re: VNC stuff

2017-06-13 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Peter Grehan's Nachricht vom 13.06.2017 06:39 (localtime): > Hi Rod, > >> r302504 is not likely to be MFC'ed at this time, this is the e1000 >> driver >> and man page. This code has known issues at this time and is an action >> item list on the bhyve developers work list. > > The e1000

Re: PCIe passthrough really that expensive?

2017-06-13 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Anish's Nachricht vom 13.06.2017 06:13 (localtime): > Hi Harry, >>Any hints highly appreciated! … > > Now use cpuset to route IRQ#265 to say core 0 > > $cpuset -l 0 -x 265 > > Again use cpuset to force VM[PID 1222] to run on all core except #0 > > root@svmhost:~ # ps > > PID TT S

bhyve.8 referencing non-existing vmm.4 [Was: Re: VNC stuff]

2017-06-15 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Rodney W. Grimes's Nachricht vom 14.06.2017 00:40 (localtime): … >> I can confirm that the 302504 MFC (r304424) works with BSD guests. >> Also the man page correctly was included in the MFC ? my fault. >> >> But I just checked these, which needs MFC: >> 307517,314342,316357,317545 and th

Re: Any support creating a Windows Server 2012 unattended install

2017-07-13 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Paul Webster via freebsd-virtualization's Nachricht vom 13.07.2017 10:07 (localtime): > Or alternatively any of you guys have one that I can use? > > I was following https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows but I can not seem > to get it to work; though it may be because I had to convert t

Re: Any support creating a Windows Server 2012 unattended install

2017-07-13 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Paul Webster's Nachricht vom 13.07.2017 10:22 (localtime): > Ah ha we can now see installs, perfect thank you harry! just what I > needed I thought we still had no way of seeing the install process You can run anything that provides a UEFIx64 loader with VNC-graphics, due to the ongoing

Re: Any support creating a Windows Server 2012 unattended install

2017-07-13 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Frank Leonhardt's Nachricht vom 13.07.2017 10:40 (localtime): > On 13/07/2017 09:35, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> Bezüglich Paul Webster's Nachricht vom 13.07.2017 10:22 (localtime): >>> Ah ha we can now see installs, perfect thank you harry! just what I &

bhyve ppt usage can cause severe RAM corruption [Was: Re: panic: Memory modified after free in zio_create, passthru in use]

2017-10-11 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 11.06.2017 12:37 (localtime): > Bezüglich Harry Schmalzbauer's Nachricht vom 06.06.2017 14:03 (localtime): >> Hello, >> >> suddenly, I'm getting this error: >> /lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "xdr_accepted_reply" >> >> Very mysterious: It showed up o

Re: Bhyve and windows 2012/2016

2017-10-13 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Александр Поволоцкий's Nachricht vom 13.10.2017 12:12 (localtime): > Hello > > I'm trying to install Windows 2012 evaluation in bhyve. It looks like > neither HDD (ahci-hd) nor CD (ahci-cd) are available. > > Command is > > /usr/sbin/bhyve -c 2 -m 17179869184 -H -A -w -s 0:0,hostbridge

Re: pci_virtio_block.c Assertion failed: line 216

2017-11-15 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
> virtio-blk isn't currently supported with Windows guests. You'll need > to use ahci-hd for now. > > However, I do have a fix that can hopefully be committed shortly. … Mising in another reply: >> Wiadomość napisana przez Harry Schmalzbauer > <mailto:free..

Re: Bhyve. Unable install Windows 7/Server 2008R2

2017-12-04 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich wishmaster's Nachricht vom 04.12.2017 13:32 (localtime): > Hi, > > guys, what happened with bhyve after 11.1-RELEASE. I am unable install > neither Windows 7 nor Windows Server 2008R2. > I have attempted with HDD as raw file, ZFS dev - without success. > > root@XXX: uname -a > FreeBSD X

Re: Bhyve. Unable install Windows 7/Server 2008R2

2017-12-05 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Lars Engels's Nachricht vom 05.12.2017 17:57 (localtime): > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 04:49:45AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> Hi, >>> bhyve -c 2 -s 0,hostbridge -s 3,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/my_zroot/VM/img/win7/disk0 >>> For win7/2k8*, the sector size presented to the guest

Re: Unable to use renamed tap device

2017-12-30 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Shawn Webb's Nachricht vom 30.12.2017 07:10 (localtime): > Hey All, > > I'm in the process of reorganizing my bhyve setup on my development > laptop. I'd like to have rename the tap devices to match the name of > the VM so that it's easier to keep track of. Otherwise, I have to keep > a

Re: Question about bhyve

2018-01-12 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Marcelo Araujo's Nachricht vom 12.01.2018 03:20 (localtime): > Hi, > > You can give a try using devel/libhyve-remote, it is a VNC server based on > libvncserver, clipboard works there. Can someone please give a on-line explanation how this port is to be used – not for end users as far a

Re: Bhyve passthrough problems

2018-01-22 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Peter Grehan's Nachricht vom 18.01.2018 09:58 (localtime): > Hi Mario, > >> I'm trying to passthrough a firewire pci card to a windows 7 64 guest. > > First, you'll need to verify if that card supports MSI or MSI-x since > that is required by bhyve for passthru support. This can be seen

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

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 managemen

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 >&g

Re: superfluous host interfaces

2018-02-27 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Paul Vixie's Nachricht vom 27.02.2018 07:14 (localtime): > > > Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> Bezüglich Ruben's Nachricht vom 26.02.2018 11:34 (localtime): >>> On 26/02/2018 10:56, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> … >>>> Another, pers

Re: superfluous host interfaces

2018-02-28 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas's Nachricht vom 27.02.2018 21:09 (localtime): > > On 27/02/2018 08:17, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> Bezüglich Paul Vixie's Nachricht vom 27.02.2018 07:14 (localtime): >>> >>> Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >>>&

Re: bhyve - windows7 installation

2018-03-01 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Ludovit Koren's Nachricht vom 01.03.2018 08:22 (localtime): > > Hi, > > on FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE #0 r329013, I was trying to install windows7 > using bhyve. I run the following commands: > > mkdir -p iso-remaster/virtio > /usr/local/bin/7z x > en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_vl_build_x

Re: bhyve - windows7 installation

2018-03-01 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Ludovit Koren's Nachricht vom 01.03.2018 14:33 (localtime): >>>>>> Harry Schmalzbauer writes: … > > I'd suggest the following mass storage config (adding a second ODD with > > the virtio-141 drivers): > > -s > > >

Re: bhyve - windows7 installation

2018-03-02 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Ludovit Koren's Nachricht vom 01.03.2018 19:29 (localtime): >>>>>> Rodney W Grimes writes: > > >> >>>>> Harry Schmalzbauer writes: … > >> bhyve: passthru device 0/26

Re: bhyve and arp problem

2018-04-02 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Daniel Braniss's Nachricht vom 30.03.2018 13:16 (localtime): > hi, > this is my first attempt at bhyve, and so far all seems ok, except > in my guest, the mac address of the hosting keeps flipping, ie, every 20 > minutes > i see a message : > … arp: nnn (the hosting ip) moved fro

Re: bhyve and arp problem

2018-04-02 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Daniel Braniss's Nachricht vom 02.04.2018 16:58 (localtime): … >> >> Are you trying to use the HOSTS ip address in the GUEST? > > the client is using the server’s /usr/local, which is mounted via nfs. I guess you have reasons to prefer nfs over nullfs. > so I guess the answer is yes.

Re: bhyve and arp problem

2018-04-02 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Rodney W. Grimes's Nachricht vom 02.04.2018 18:11 (localtime): >> Bez?glich Daniel Braniss's Nachricht vom 02.04.2018 16:58 (localtime): >> >> ? Are you trying to use the HOSTS ip address in the GUEST? >>> >>> the client is using the server?s /usr/local, which is mounted via nfs

Re: bhyve and arp problem

2018-04-04 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Daniel Braniss's Nachricht vom 04.04.2018 15:08 (localtime): > > >> On 2 Apr 2018, at 19:19, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> >> Bezüglich Rodney W. Grimes's Nachricht vom 02.04.2018 18:11 (localtime): >>>> Bez?glich Daniel Brani

Re: bhyve networking

2018-04-25 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Paul Esson's Nachricht vom 25.04.2018 20:44 (localtime): > Hi Folks, > > I'm struggling with networking when using vm-bhyve on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE. I > have two NICs and have configured the first (igb0) on a management network > and want to use the second (igb1) for VMs. However, I c

Re: bhyve networking

2018-04-26 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Paul Esson's Nachricht vom 25.04.2018 23:15 (localtime): > Hi Rod, > Can you share a command line for that? I also tried presenting an > access port from my switch on a specific VLAN - not trimmed. Would I > still have to tag the interface on the guest in that scenario? Hmm, I lost the

Re: pci_virtio_block.c Assertion failed: line 216

2018-06-01 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 15.11.2017 um 15:19 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: Bezüglich Peter Grehan's Nachricht vom 03.01.2017 20:36 (localtime): Hi Harry, trying to use bhyve(8) with virtio-blk and Windows guest results in core dump: Assertion failed: (n >= 2 && n <= BLOCKIF_IOV_MAX + 2), func

kern.hz – Windows aequivalent, high CPU usage on bhyve copmared to ESXi

2018-06-18 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Hello, has anybody found out if Windows does something similar as FreeBSD with kern.hz when running on a hypervisor? I haven't done meaningful measuring, but on bhyve I see 2-digit CPU load with idle windows (2012R2) guest. I never saw that on ESXi, it's much lower there, whil FreeBSD as gues

bhyve win-guest benchmark comparing

2018-10-22 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Hello, I started using bhyve for some of my local setups about one or two years ago.  I'm utilizing rc.local along with some homebrew start_if.NG scripts to connect tap(4) and ng_bridge(4) with a single vlan(4) uplink child, so I know bhyve well enough to know that it isn't comparable in many

Re: Network identification problem with Windows 10 on bhyve

2018-10-26 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 26.10.2018 um 09:16 schrieb Andrea Venturoli: Hello. I've got a FreeBSD 11.2/amd64 + vm-bhyve + Windows 10 pro. I'm building the network bridge statically, i.e., I have the following in /etc/rc.conf: cloned_interfaces="bridge0 tap0" ifconfig_bridge0="up addm igb0" I'm using virtio network

Re: bhyve win-guest benchmark comparing

2018-10-27 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 22.10.2018 um 13:26 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: … Test-Runs: Each hypervisor had only the one bench-guest running, no other tasks/guests were running besides system's native standard processes. Since the time between powering up the guest and finishing logon differed notably (~5s vs.

Re: bhyve win-guest benchmark comparing

2018-10-30 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 30.10.2018 um 02:09 schrieb Dustin Marquess: It would be interesting to test running it under Xen with FreeBSD as the dom0. ACK, so do I think. This was on my to-check list, but had to be postponed until the next HV project legitimates another test setup ;-) Unfortunately I don't know much

Re: NVMe and Bhyve

2019-03-20 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 16.02.2019 um 05:11 schrieb Victor Sudakov: Stefan Bethke wrote: 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 bhyve? I was under the impr

Re: BSD11 vs BSD12 KVM performance

2019-05-04 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 02.05.2019 um 20:51 schrieb Bapat, Udayan: Hi All, I work in performance team with NetApp, Inc. During qualification process of BSD11 as a guest, we observed that the cost of rdtsc call has magnified by 10x compared to BSD10. We are using qemu-2.10 that came as a default package in RH7.4.

bhyve 11.1->stable/12 ZVOL-WinGuest slowdown – r358848 far beyond imagination

2020-04-18 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Hello, after upgrading my ancient ivy-bridge (Xeon E3, no vAPIC CPU support) from 11.1 to stable/12 I noteced a quiet heavy slowdown of my windows guest (Server 2012R2). The guest-disk is a ZVOL backed virtio-blk device, which I suspected suffers from performance regressions – especially sin

Re: bhyve win-guest benchmark comparing

2020-04-19 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 22.10.2018 um 13:26 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: … Test-Runs: Each hypervisor had only the one bench-guest running, no other tasks/guests were running besides system's native standard processes. Since the time between powering up the guest and finishing logon differed notably (~5s vs.

stable/13 (PCI reset) yet to be identified regression

2021-03-20 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Hello, I'm suffering from a late minute regression with stable/13. 4 weeks ago I did pre-production tests with Windows Server VMs migrating to bhyve. Things went fine, a 82576 ppt Dual Ethernet card worked after installing a specific driver version in Server 2012R2. VMconfig nad host hardware

ConfigRefactor-621b5090487d rises XHCI issues [Was: Re: stable/13 (PCI reset) yet to be identified regression]

2021-03-21 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 20.03.2021 um 23:48 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: Hello, I'm suffering from a late minute regression with stable/13. 4 weeks ago I did pre-production tests with Windows Server VMs migrating to bhyve. Things went fine, a 82576 ppt Dual Ethernet card worked after installing a specific d

Re: ConfigRefactor-621b5090487d rises XHCI issues [Was: Re: stable/13 (PCI reset) yet to be identified regression]

2021-04-15 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 21.03.2021 um 16:35 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: Am 20.03.2021 um 23:48 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: : : : but with stable/13 from yesterday the XHCI USB hub is marked non-functional in the Windows device manager with the hint "error during reset" and the passthrough NIC doesn"

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root

2021-05-14 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 16.10.2020 um 11:35 schrieb Wei Hu via freebsd-virtualization: Howdy, Just started the upgrade process on some FreeBSD 11.4 VMs to FreeBSD 12.1 using freebsd-update. VMs are running on multiple Hyper-V 2012 R2 and 2019 systems, all systems with 2020-09 Cumulative Updates installed. The amd64

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root

2021-05-15 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 14.05.2021 um 18:44 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: Am 16.10.2020 um 11:35 schrieb Wei Hu via freebsd-virtualization: : Did you try 12.0? Maybe something changed in 12.x causes failure. I386 is not well tested on Hyper-V. I will try to reproduce and take a look. The regression happened

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root

2021-05-17 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 17.05.2021 um 08:47 schrieb Konstantin Belousov: On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 06:33:19AM +, Wei Hu wrote: -Original Message- From: Konstantin Belousov Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 1:47 PM To: Wei Hu Cc: Harry Schmalzbauer ; Chris Knight ; freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root

2021-05-19 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 17.05.2021 um 11:39 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: Am 17.05.2021 um 08:47 schrieb Konstantin Belousov: On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 06:33:19AM +, Wei Hu wrote: -Original Message- From: Konstantin Belousov Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 1:47 PM To: Wei Hu Cc: Harry Schmalzbauer ; Chris

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root

2021-05-21 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 19.05.2021 um 13:26 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: ... I can just assure that I tracked it down to the single r332489 committ which makes vmbus(4) failing on i386. Verification done: - built/installed world&kernel on i386 HyV guest with r332488   reboot fine. - built/installed kernel on

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 i386 on Hyper-V Fails to Mount Root

2021-05-21 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 21.05.2021 um 14:50 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: Am 19.05.2021 um 13:26 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: ... I can just assure that I tracked it down to the single r332489 committ which makes vmbus(4) failing on i386. Verification done: - built/installed world&kernel on i386 HyV guest