bhyve, Windows guest and trim support

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Tue Jul 7 16:18:15 UTC 2020


On 2020-07-07 17:40, Felix Palmen wrote:

> As I don't have background knowledge how TRIM works exactly: Should
> guests that support it automatically free unused space when running on
> the updated bhyve? Or would I have to do a "clean restart", by creating
> a new zvol and copying everything over in the guest?

I have yet to try this, but, as I said, I switched temporaly to ahci-hd 
and used the instructions at the following link to reclaim space 
(without the need to start a new zvol):

https://winaero.com/blog/trim-ssd-windows-10/

Don't know if you are using other OSes, but I guess something similar 
must exist.

HTH

  bye
	av.


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