On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:56:18PM -0400, Josh Grosse wrote:
> Hey Jiri.
>
> >I started this vm with:
> >
> >vmctl start suse01 -c -d $iso -d $disk -L
> >
> >where iso is openSUSE-Leap-42.3-DVD-x86_64.iso[1].
> >
> >Any idea what's going on?
>
> I'll bet it's because you are attempting to boot a DVD image,
> which doesn't have an MBR. Bootable DVDs use the El Torito
> standard for booting.[1]
>
> Tho the best of my recollection, vmm(4) guests must boot from disk images
> with the seabios or from BSD kernels with -b.
-b path Boot the VM with the specified kernel or BIOS image.
If not specified, the default is to boot using the BIOS
image in /etc/firmware/vmm-bios.
IIUC you do not need to define anything, if not specified it is using
seabios.
I was able to boot opensuse from that dvd, although later on I got an
error in the installer :/
j.
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Torito_(CD-ROM_standard)
