freebsd-12 and bhyve and the azure platform

[Paul Vixie]

tech-lists wrote on 2019-01-26 16:17:
> Is it possible to migrate a byve freebsd instance/image to Azure? Or
> does one have to have the instance initially provisioned via their 
> marketplace?

bhyve does not participate in the virtualbox/vmware/etc ecosystem where 
"appliances" in the form of "open virtualization format" files can be 
exported and imported. this in turn means that you would have to 
manually control the parameters of an azure instance to be sure that it 
can contain your existing system image.

i would expect you to use dump | restore, or zfs dump | zfs restore, to 
move a system image from one container strategy (or bare metal) to 
another (such as azure), after first booting a rescue image inside the 
destination container. you'd then fine-tune your /etc/rc.conf file to 
have whatever settings were appropriate for the new container.

i know that's somewhat old school, but, that's one reason to love bhyve.

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P Vixie