Re: NetBSD on bhyve on TrueNAS Core

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 09:44, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Has anyone had any success with running a NetBSD VM in bhyve under
> TrueNAS? I tried booting the install CD-ROM (both 9 and current,
> amd64) with UEFI and VNC.

My -current (still 9.99.79) runs under TrueNAS just fine, with UEFI
and VNC, as you say.

>
> In each case, I see the bootloader, then the graphical console and the
> kernel starts booting. Then about 5 seconds later, VNC simply
> disconnects and does not let me reconnect. I assume that the
> hypervisor is crashing at that point.
>
> All the how-tos I found look somewhat stale and go through all sorts
> of gymnastics (such as using grub) to get non-UEFI boot working.
>
> Any suggestions?

I can't remember, tbh; I had some stumble to begin with, but managed
to sort it at the time.

I use the VNC connection via the browser I am accessing the TrueNAS
interface with.

I'll try to install the latest 9.99.81 when the build I am doing now finishes.

dmesg | grep -i bhyve
[     1.000003]   BHYVE (1.0)
[     1.000003] ACPI: RSDP 0x000000001FB88014 000024 (v02 BHYVE )
[     1.000003] ACPI: XSDT 0x000000001FB870E8 00004C (v01 BHYVE
BVFACP   00000001      01000013)
[     1.000003] ACPI: FACP 0x000000001FB86000 0000F4 (v04 BHYVE
BVFACP   00000001 BHYV 00000001)
[     1.000003] ACPI: DSDT 0x000000001EA98000 00191A (v02 BHYVE
BVDSDT   00000001 INTL 20200430)
[     1.000003] ACPI: HPET 0x000000001FB85000 000038 (v01 BHYVE
BVHPET   00000001 BHYV 00000001)
[     1.000003] ACPI: APIC 0x000000001FB84000 00004A (v01 BHYVE
BVMADT   00000001 BHYV 00000001)
[     1.000003] ACPI: MCFG 0x000000001FB83000 00003C (v01 BHYVE
BVMCFG   00000001 BHYV 00000001)
[     1.000003] ACPI: SPCR 0x000000001FB82000 000050 (v01 BHYVE
BVSPCR   00000001 BHYV 00000001)
[     1.000003] acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <BHYVE ,BVFACP  ,00000001>, AslId
<    ,01000013>
[     2.989693] wd0: <BHYVE SATA DISK>

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>
> --
> Benny



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