Re: Bhyve CD-ROM

Yeah, all you cool kids are running 13.0-* already while I'm waiting for 12.3-RELEASE to get out of beta. :P
I have to decide if fixing Bhyve by jumping to 13.0-RELEASE is worth the time required to fix whatever else breaks from the upgrade.

> ----------------------------------------
> From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
> Sent: Tue Nov 30 22:41:05 CET 2021
> To: <sysadmin.lists@mailfence.com>
> Cc: Corvin Köhne <C.Koehne@beckhoff.com>, Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>, Freebsd Virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Bhyve CD-ROM
> 
> 
> FWIW, I had no trouble installing Debian 5.10.something in a VM.
> I am using 13.0-STABLE but this should also work on 13.0-RELEASE.
> When booting from a disk, I just remove the cdrom line from bhyve
> command line (as shown below).
> 
> # cat debian/run
> bhyve -c 2 \
>         -s 0,hostbridge \
>         -s 5,nvme,debian.img \
>         -s 8,virtio-9p,sharename=/vm-share/debian \
>         -s 10,virtio-net,tap6,mac=58:9c:fc:XX:XX:XX \
>         -s 20,xhci,tablet \
>         -s 31,lpc \
>         -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd \
>         -l com1,/dev/nmdm6B \
>         -m 4G -H \
>         -s 11,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5909,wait \
>         debian
> 
> exit
>         -s 4,ahci-cd,debian.iso \
> 
> In the VM:
> $ uname -a
> Linux debian 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> The share was mounted with
> 
> # mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,cache=mmap,version=9p2000.L,rw sharename /mnt
> # partx  /dev/nvme0n1
> 
> NR     START       END   SECTORS  SIZE NAME UUID
>  1      2048    391167    389120  190M ESP  ...
>  2    391168 132227071 131835904 62.9G root ...
>  3 132227072 134215679   1988608  971M swap ...
> 
> I did a manually install as I wanted to play with xfs but otherwise
> it was just standard install, no other hacks.

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