Bhyve now supports Windows 2012 (Say goodbye to VirtualBox?)

usdmatt said:
I don't know much about QEMU but it seems far more Linux-orientated. I also believe it mainly relies on KVM to provide near-native performance.
Bhyve is effectively KVM for FreeBSD. It's a very lightweight hypervisor, 100% designed on/for FreeBSD, making full use of hardware virtualisation features (VT-x,VT-d,etc) - In fact it won't work without VT-x.

Maybe VirtualBox is better than the credit I give it, but I tend to see it as more of a hobby/workstation hypervisor. Bhyve & KVM are more like ESXi/Hyper-V.
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Thanks for the information. I usually have no need for virtualization, and run QEMU to debug kernels or to run an OS that needs hardware I don't have. BHyve sounds interesting, but I seem not to find any direct comparisons of these players on the internet. Perhaps I should set up all three, and check it for myself, as an academic exercise :-)

Maybe there's a big difference between them, relative to running later versions of Windows. I see oblique references to that in the thread ...
 
Hi :)

Search this quiestion in FAQ
https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve
But no answer... ))))

bhyve is a great project that opens new opportunities in FreeBSD.
What about the future bhyve ? )
Will be supported actively? )
Program code bhyve in this moment is good(most of the code) and does't have big bugs ?
 
windows 7 without a "tablet" option is trash one.
I so and can't found xhci driver for that "bhyve"' xhci device. intel's drivers not compatible.
 
SemFLY said:
Program code bhyve in this moment is good(most of the code) and does't have big bugs ?
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I use it for long time in "production" environment, works very stable, don't see any problems at all.
EsTaF said:
can't found xhci driver for that "bhyve"' xhci device. intel's drivers not compatible.
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That's true, however, you really don't need the framebuffer frequently.
net/freerdp does everything for you, including sound, directory mappings etc.
 
free-and-bsd said:
Have you tried this post recommendations? I'm going to try, but with Win 10. But people report it working with Win 7 as well...
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Ok, I have tried this with win 10, it works like charm. No ISO manipulation needed, no nothing, It installs, boots and gets accessed via, for example, net/tigervnc. It would be better, of course, to use net/freerdp, but RDP is not (officially) available in Windows 10 HOME installation. There is rdpwrap workaround, but I wasn't very successful in bringing that up.

I also found this page about sound in bhyve, but that requires patching and rebuilding bhyve. I wonder if it is possible to rebuild only bhyve: of course it is, but whether or not other parts need be rebuilt as well — this I don't know.
 
free-and-bsd said:
Ok, I have tried this with win 10, it works like charm. No ISO manipulation needed, no nothing, It installs, boots and gets accessed via, for example, net/tigervnc. It would be better, of course, to use net/freerdp, but RDP is not (officially) available in Windows 10 HOME installation. There is rdpwrap workaround, but I wasn't very successful in bringing that up.
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Thanks for rdpwrap, haven't heard about it.

free-and-bsd said:
I also found this page about sound in bhyve, but that requires patching and rebuilding bhyve. I wonder if it is possible to rebuild only bhyve: of course it is, but whether or not other parts need be rebuilt as well — this I don't know.
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If Windows is the guest os then its a lot easier to get sound then to rebuild bhyve with patches, just use sound over RDP, to use it add /sound switch to xfreerdp.

Consider also all these options for more convenient work:

% xfreerdp /u:USER /w:WIDTH-OF-WINDOW /h:HEIGHT-OF-WINDOW /v:IP-ADDRESS +clipboard +fonts +home-drive /sound /bpp:32 /kbd:0x415

Other switches are +clipboard for copy-paste clipboard, +fonts for Clear Type smoothed fonts, +home-drive for having $HOME mounted as CIFS share under that guest machine, /sound for audio over RDP (no bhyve patches needed), /bpp:32 for full 32bit colors and /kbd:0x415 for keyboard You need, 415 probably will not be useful for You.
 
free-and-bsd said:
But people report it working with Win 7 as well...
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I'm running Windows 7 in my production. However, I never bothered with tablet mode. Framebuffer VNC is needed only once, until I get network/RDP. I used sysprep to create minimal Windows 7 installation and just cloning it when needed.
 
vermaden said:
Thanks for rdpwrap, haven't heard about it.
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And I was finally able to make it work. A dll fix was needed to make it work. And I had to enable GUI-only authentication method on Windows host, otherwise there start some unclear certificate problems with freerdp. So thank you for your xfreerdp command line hints, I was really lost among the multiple options there...
 
OK, it works fine now :) :) ! I finally said goodbye to VMplayer, not only to virtualbox. With USB3.0 whole controller and a NIC passthrough along with correct CPUs option to bhyve it beats VMplayer.
 
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