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
<[email protected]> 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
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