Upcoming FreeBSD 10.x + bhyve ...

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Michael,

> In short:
>
> -S 31,uart,stdio
>
> Becomes:
>
> -S 31,uart,/dev/nmdm0A

  This will continue to work, though the preferred way of setting up a 
console port is to use the PCI-ISA (aka LPC) bridge

  -s N,lpc

  (N can be any slot number on bus 0, usually 1..31)

  There are 2 serial ports behind the LPC bridge, com1 and com2. These 
can have backends assigned to them in the same way as PCI devices, but 
use the "-l" option for configuration since they are 'lpc' devices e.g.

  -l com1,stdio

  -l com2,/dev/nmdm9B

  The advantage of using the LPC serial ports is that they will show up 
on the expected tty devices - com1 will be /dev/ttyu0 on FreeBSD as 
opposed to /dev/ttyu2 for the uart PCI device.

  So: "-S 31,uart/dev/nmdm0A" becomes "-s 31,lpc -l com1,nmdm0A"

  ... and change the guest's /etc/ttys file to set up a getty on ttyu0

later,

Peter.