Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

2016-08-05 Thread Trent Thompson
Jordan, I almost forgot one important detail, giving the bhyve instance anything less than 8 gigs of RAM will cause bhyve to exit upon attempting to boot. You must give it at least 8G. -Trent ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://l

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-05 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Zitat von Matt Churchyard : Zitat von Peter Grehan : Hi Mike, - Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 installs and runs in graphical mode flawlessly. Have you had any issues with the XHCI mouse on 8/8.1 ? - I was able to graphically Restore/Reconfigure a Acronis Windows-Backup into a Bhyve instance

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

2016-08-05 Thread Shawn Webb
If I remember right, bhyve on 12-CURRENT now supports e1000 emulation. Thanks, Shawn On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:15:25AM -0700, Cory Smelosky wrote: > I am unaware of any drivers for virtio-net or the ne2k for OS X offhand, > however if there ends up being an e1000 emilation you will be golden t

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

2016-08-05 Thread Charles Remes
There is a virtio-net driver but it’s likely out of date. See here: https://github.com/pmj/virtio-net-osx The author periodically responds to opened issues but has stated they don’t have time to continue work on it. This did work at one point so it probably just needs some bit-rot repaired. >

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

2016-08-05 Thread Cory Smelosky
I am unaware of any drivers for virtio-net or the ne2k for OS X offhand, however if there ends up being an e1000 emilation you will be golden there. OS X should be happy with the AHCI device however. If I get bored this weekend I may take a crack at it - I'm betting it's AppleIntelCPUPowerManage

Re: OS X Guest on Bhyve

2016-08-05 Thread Trent Thompson
Jordan, I've attempted this in the past, and got to an Apple boot screen [1] using the Clover "Hackintosh" bootloader and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. However, depending on the drivers used [2], the instance will either "blow up" (crash), or just sit there and hang. After creating the Clover USB stic

OS X Guest on Bhyve

2016-08-05 Thread Jordan Starcher
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck running OS X as a guest on under bhyve? I can't find any info anywhere and was curious if it is feasible. Thanks, Jordan ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-05 Thread Victor Sudakov
Lars Engels wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:59:45PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Lars Engels wrote: > > > > > > > > > > uefi="yes" > > > > > graphics="yes" > > > > > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > > > > > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a > > > > 10.3-RELEASE s

RE: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-05 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> Zitat von Peter Grehan : > Hi Mike, > >> - Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 installs and runs in graphical mode flawlessly. > > Have you had any issues with the XHCI mouse on 8/8.1 ? > >> - I was able to graphically Restore/Reconfigure a Acronis >> Windows-Backup into a Bhyve instance using the Acronis

RE: A couple of newbie questions

2016-08-05 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
Colleagues, >I like bhyve very much, and have sucessfully run FreeBSD and Ubuntu >16.04 server in FreeBSD 10.3 bhyve, with vm-bhyve as a shell. >Now I am trying to boot Windows 7 but have not succeeded so far. >However there are things I don't quite understand. A couple of questions, if >you al

RE: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-05 Thread Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization
> > uefi="yes" > graphics="yes" > Dear Colleagues, > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a 10.3-RELEASE > system, or do I have to install CURRENT for that? I believe you should also be able to use the 11 beta. Matt ___ freebsd

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-05 Thread Lars Engels
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:59:45PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Lars Engels wrote: > > > > > > > > uefi="yes" > > > > graphics="yes" > > > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > > > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a > > > 10.3-RELEASE system, or do I have to install CURRENT

Re: Bhyve tests and findings

2016-08-05 Thread Victor Sudakov
Lars Engels wrote: > > > > > > uefi="yes" > > > graphics="yes" > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > Can I enjoy and test all those nice "UEFI-GOP" features on a > > 10.3-RELEASE system, or do I have to install CURRENT for that? > > AFAIK you can checkout usr.sbin/bhyve from the 11 branch and compil