[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bhyve on Hipster 2024.10

[Till Wegmueller]

It's all in the manpages on your system or online at 
https://illumos.org/man/8/bhyve

:)

bHyve is a full VM hypervisor as is Virtualbox. And as Such every VM 
needs a Firmware that implements BIOS/UEFI Hardware. For bHyve the 
traditional BIOS Firmware was removed as it can not be compiled anymore. 
Except for Solaris 10 all Systems use UEFI today so Debian and Win7 
work. 9pfs is a shared folder implementation the same way Virtualbox 
shared folder works. It can be hacked as Rootfs for Freebsd Guests but 
thats it's own topic. But it does use the Plan9 protocol to communicate 
between guest and host.

If you are familiar and Happy with Virtualbox use that. It works well 
and gets you decent results for Convenience OSes

-Till

On 23.01.25 17:50, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>   I'm sorry to say I don't understand the "legacy FW" bit.
> 
> Does bhyve not present the OS with a virtual bare disk? I spent a good bit of time looking for technical details about bhyve and didn't find anything well written. I go back to the "great gray wall" of VMS and all through the workstation wars. The current state of documentation is distressing. However, search is as bad so there may be hope. Pointers to information greatly appreciated. I'd like to learn more about bhyve. Especially how it presents the host system file for the virtual file system to the guest OS.
> 
> I was able to install bare S10_u8 on VirtualBox. It's the default root account only install, so a lot of work to move stuff over so I can run twm(1) instead of CDE and set up all the other stuff. I don't recall the details, but I used to run twm on my editing screen and Motif on the other screen back on Solaris 8 at work.
> 
> I'd been reluctant to use VBox for S10, but it seems to work and I am at least familiar with it. I've got Debian and S10_u8 working and just Win 7 left to deal with. That's actually far more progress than I had even dared hope for. Still a lot of work to do, but a successful S10_u8 install on the first try is very encouraging.
> 
> Win 7, Debian and S10 are all for convenience. New work will generally be done on the host Hipster system. So performance hits are not a concern. It's the lifetime of old code I don't want to move from S10.
> 
> Have Fun!
> Reg
> 
> 
>       On Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 02:58:50 AM CST, Stephan Althaus <stephan.althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
>   
>   On 1/23/25 09:23, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> Solaris 10 was using pre-uefi grub, I doubt very much it got backport because grub2 appeared in Solaris 11.
>>
>> rgds,
>> toomas
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Just to say it clear.
> 
> As the legacy bhyve firmware was removed from OI-bhyve (pkg
> system/bhyve/firmware) because of removed upstream support (since
> edk2-stable202402),
> you will need to get and try a legacy firmware file. (maybe from a OI
> 2023 release or from some BSD...)
> 
> Regards,
> Stephan
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> openindiana-discuss mailing list
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
>    
> _______________________________________________
> openindiana-discuss mailing list
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss