Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-23 Thread Till Wegmueller
It's all in the manpages on your system or online at https://illumos.org/man/8/bhyve :) bHyve is a full VM hypervisor as is Virtualbox. And as Such every VM needs a Firmware that implements BIOS/UEFI Hardware. For bHyve the traditional BIOS Firmware was removed as it can not be compiled anymo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I'm sorry to say I don't understand the "legacy FW" bit. Does bhyve not present the OS with a virtual bare disk? I spent a good bit of time looking for technical details about bhyve and didn't find anything well written. I go back to the "great gray wall" of VMS and all through the workstation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-23 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 1/23/25 09:23, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: Solaris 10 was using pre-uefi grub, I doubt very much it got backport because grub2 appeared in Solaris 11. rgds, toomas Hi! Just to say it clear. As the legacy bhyve firmware was removed from OI-bhyve (pkg system/bhyve/firmware

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-23 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 23. Jan 2025, at 08:38, Till Wegmueller wrote: > > Hey Reg, > > I am still not on my computer so this is a quick one for now. bHyve and Zones > brand S10 can both run ontop of any pool. bhyve uses zfs volumes and zones > use datasets. Both reference the vfs path. Omnios and oi are well

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-22 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hey Reg, I am still not on my computer so this is a quick one for now. bHyve and Zones brand S10 can both run ontop of any pool. bhyve uses zfs volumes and zones use datasets. Both reference the vfs path. Omnios and oi are well enough in sync that the tutorial works here too. I dont know if sol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-22 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Does it seem reasonable to follow the OmniOS Debian example but with an s10_u8 ISO image? I'm sure this will be painful, but it would simplify my environment a great deal if I can get Windows, Debian and S10_u8 running in VMs, I wouldn't need 5 computers in one room. That is what makes sense

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-22 Thread Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss
On 1/22/25 14:32, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: How are these related? pkg://openindiana.org/system/bhyve pkg://openindiana.org/system/zones/brand/bhyve pkg://openindiana.org/system/library/bhyve Can all be installed at the same time? Yes. You n

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

2025-01-22 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
How are these related? pkg://openindiana.org/system/bhyve pkg://openindiana.org/system/zones/brand/bhyve pkg://openindiana.org/system/library/bhyve Can all be installed at the same time? BTW A docs.openindiana.org search brings up a reference to the most recent release