Re: VirtualBox 7.0, FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE-amd64, ZFS, and bootpool
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 08:34:06 UTC
Hi David, FreeBSD 11 is deprecated and out of support. Have you tried with a newer version? Quite a few changes to ZFS have happened since then, including the switch to OpenZFS. Cheers, Alex ---------------------------------------- Dec 31, 2023 04:36:42 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>: > freebsd-questions: > > If I use VirtualBox 7.0 (on Debian 11.8 amd64) to create a FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-amd64 virtual machine with BIOS (MBR), ZFS boot, encrypted swap, and encrypted ZFS root, the boot pool is not imported automatically when the system boots: > > root@geneweb:~ # freebsd-version ; uname -a > 12.4-RELEASE-p9 > FreeBSD geneweb 12.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE-p9 GENERIC amd64 > > root@geneweb:~ # zpool import > pool: bootpool > id: 16038363864467226171 > state: ONLINE > action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier. > config: > > bootpool ONLINE > ada0s1a ONLINE > > > Why? > > > I have seen the defect since FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64. I do not know if it was present earlier. > > > How do I arrange for bootpool to be imported automatically at boot? > > > David