Re: Best VM setup for FreeBSD

2013-06-06 Thread Michael Berman
I run multiple VMs using VMware Fusion. VMware has *nix support in their Workstation product. On 6/6/13 7:26 AM, "TJ" wrote: > >I have been looking into VirtualBox. > >My biggest hurdle at the moment is getting multiple hosts on one machine >and setting up the VRDE to use different ports. > >I

Re: how is the MAC for tap(4) computed?

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Berman
Peter, lost the last part of your message ... An alternative would be hashing the vm name with the host name and host MAC address. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 4, 2013, at 6:26 AM, "Peter Grehan" wrote: > > Hi Aryeh, > >> There seems to be a very high rate of MAC address collisions when tap

break to debugger in bhyve

2013-12-15 Thread Michael Berman
I’ve tried the various kernel and sysctl options, and it may be the way I am starting bhyve but I can’t seem to get a the FreeBSD guest to enter the kernel debugger with a hotkey. Michael ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: break to debugger in bhyve

2013-12-15 Thread Michael Berman
Unfortunately, this does not seem to work with the bhyve /dev/console device. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 15, 2013, at 5:10 PM, "Julian Elischer" wrote: > >> On 12/16/13, 8:27 AM, Michael Berman wrote: >> I’ve tried the various kernel and sysctl options

Re: break to debugger in bhyve

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Berman
12/16/13, 5:03 PM, "Neel Natu" wrote: >Hi Michael, > >On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Michael Berman > wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, this does not seem to work with the bhyve /dev/console >>device. >> > >Works fine for me once I compile with

Re: BHyVe - ESXi comparison

2014-01-28 Thread Michael Berman
parsec and stresslinux may be of interest. On 1/28/14, 7:02 AM, "Andrea Brancatelli" wrote: >I'd have to find a different workload (compiling a port under linux makes >no sense), but that something I was already thinking about. > >Anybody has any idea about that? It must be something that get's

Re: Clock in bhyve

2014-03-17 Thread Michael Berman
In my humble experience, the clock inside a VM can jump badly enough that NTP complains and exits. You¹ll need to configure NTP to be very forgiving. VMware does a lot of work in its tools/driver to avoid this. Michael On 3/15/14, 4:35 PM, "Neel Natu" wrote: >Hi Andrea, > >On Sat, Mar 15, 20

Re: Problems with bhyve's kgdb support and loadable modules

2014-05-04 Thread Michael Berman
On 5/3/14, 8:01 PM, "Peter Grehan" wrote: >Hi Kurt, > >> Is there any reasonable tutorial for using kgdb with the >> bvmdebug kernel option? > > Not really (https://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe/gdb) > > In any event, 9.2 doesn't have bvmdebug, though it would be a simple >backport. It's also not st