Re: Starting the bhyve journey

I have read https://wu.e-shell.org/articles/hw-to-bhyve.html as well as
https://www.netscylla.com/blog/2021/06/11/FreeBSD-and-Bhyve.html and many
more.
I will just master it with time.

On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 1:01 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Try like this :
>
> bhyve -S -c sockets=2,cores=2,threads=2 -m 4G -w -H -A \
> -s 0,hostbridge \
> -s 1,ahci-hd,/mnt/zroot2/zroot2/bhyve/img/Windows/windows11.img,bootindex=1 \
> -s 13,virtio-net,tap1 \
> -s 29,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5918,w=1600,h=950,wait \
> -s 30,xhci,tablet \
> -s 31,lpc \
> -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI_CODE.fd \
> vm0:1 < /dev/null & sleep 2 && vncviewer 0:1
>
> Doing this way you will learn better how to compose the bhyve parameters and how they should be formatted naturally.
> As you can see,the vm-bhyve wrapper "muddies the waters". And I think that you should also learn how to create a bridge on FreeBSD.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 11:46 AM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In my opinion,the usage of the wrapper creates some difficulties to
>> understand how bhyve and the networking works. You should start from the
>> very beginning,studying bhyve and the freebsd networking,instead of
>> learning how to correctly use the wrapper.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 11:25 AM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all.
>>>
>>> I am new to bhyve and have read a lot about it, so I decided to try
>>> creating a few VMs.
>>> I found a HOWTO that is detailed and which appears to be the easiest to
>>> follow:
>>> https://klarasystems.com/articles/from-0-to-bhyve-on-freebsd-13-1/
>>> The only differences are that I did not install a fresh FreeBSD-13
>>> server as I already had one, and I am not using ZFS on my server (host).
>>> I have gotten stuck midway and cannot figure out why: I cannot boot the
>>> VMs I create.
>>> I have tried creating a Windows2019 as well as a Debian12 VM, but both
>>> don't boot.
>>>
>>> vm-public: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
>>> mtu 1492
>>>         ether ce:6f:18:51:d4:51
>>>         id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
>>>         maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
>>>         root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
>>>         member: em1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
>>>                 ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20000
>>>         groups: bridge vm-switch viid-4c918@
>>>         nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
>>> tap0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric
>>> 0 mtu 1492
>>>         description: vmnet/debian12/0/public
>>>         options=80000<LINKSTATE>
>>>         ether 58:9c:fc:10:ff:ed
>>>         inet6 fe80::5a9c:fcff:fe10:ffed%tap0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
>>>         groups: tap vm-port
>>>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>>>         status: no carrier
>>>         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>
>>> 1.  Windows2019 VM:
>>>     vm create -t uefi -s 100G -m 8G -c8 windows2019
>>>     vm install windows2019 /usr/local/bhyve-vms/.iso/server2019.iso
>>>
>>> 2. Debian12 VM:
>>>     vm create -s 60G -m 8G -c 8 debian12
>>>     vm install debian12 .iso/debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>>>
>>> root@gw:/usr/local/bhyve-vms # vm list
>>> NAME         DATASTORE  LOADER     CPU  MEMORY  VNC  AUTO     STATE
>>> debian12     default            bhyveload    8         8G             -
>>>      Yes[2]         Bootloader (91866)
>>> windows2019  default        uefi               8        8G
>>>  -       Yes [1]     Stopped
>>>
>>> From the above output of `vm list`, you can see that none of them is
>>> booting up.
>>>
>>> What is it that I could be missing?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>>> Nairobi,KE
>>> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
>>> "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
>>> [How to ask smart questions:
>>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
[How to ask smart questions:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]