Re: Booting a bhyve VM with NFS root?

2014-11-06 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Craig, Has anyone tried manually specifying these variables via the "bhyveload -e" arguments, and forcing the VM to mount its root file system over NFS? I tried something like this on bare metal a long while back: the issue there was getting the handle for the exported root area, though i

Booting a bhyve VM with NFS root?

2014-11-06 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, Has anyone tried the following: (1) Create a disk image, which only has the contents of the /boot directory and /etc/fstab. (2) /etc/fstab should specify the root file system over NFS (3) Boot the disk image in bhyve. The loader will parse /etc/fstab, and it wil