NetBSD as a guest on bhyve?

nortonham

Has anyone had any success running NetBSD as a guest on bhyve on FreeBSD? I'm using bhyve-vm, a utility suggested by basically every guide I read. There are even templates. When I a create a VM and boot it, I get

:error unknown filesystem

Any help would be appreciated.

iMil

I have a couple of NetBSD guests on bhyve running for more than a year with no issues, here's the configuration:

$ grep vm /etc/rc.conf
vm_enable="YES"
vm_dir="/mnt/newcoruscant/vm"
vm_list="gcu nadd hass senate"
vm_delay="5"
$ cat /mnt/newcoruscant/vm/senate/senate.conf 
loader="grub"
cpu=1
memory=2048M
network0_type="virtio-net"
network0_switch="public"
disk0_type="virtio-blk"
disk0_name="disk0.img"
grub_install0="knetbsd -h -r cd0a /netbsd"
grub_run0="knetbsd -h -r ld0a /netbsd"
uuid="60b30b20-ccf5-22ef-ffff-7005ca3be3c6"
network0_mac="58:6c:ff:07:ed:ff"
$ cat /mnt/newcoruscant/vm/senate/grub.cfg 
timeout=3
menuentry 'senate (bhyve run)' {
    root=hd0,1
    knetbsd -h -r ld0a /netbsd
}

From what I remember I followed bhyve-vm documentation; I don't use a ZFS backend as the machines images are stored on an NFS volume.

nortonham

iMil

Thanks for the response.

Our configs are almost exactly the same.

Would changing the loader work at all?

Also when I attempt to install, I point to the path of the iso/.img.....some documentation I've seen suggests using the vm iso command to fetch the iso. If I have the iso already, I shouldn't need to fetch the installer again, so where would I point vm-bhyve to in order to install?