New build here -
Older generation Ryzen2600 (6c/12t . 65W, very cheap)
Asrock B450-Pro4-F (very cheap)
Nvidia GT710 (very cheap)
64GB of cheap DDR4-2666
NVME drive (very cheap)
FreeBSD 12.0 running great, fantastic little headless server box for general duties and developing jailed apps ... ample capacity, cheap-as, quiet, and power efficient. etc etc. No complaints there.
Bhyve is looking like a non-starter though. I can fire up a freebsd vm, but pretty much everything else Ive tried fails instantly in the installer. (where "everything else" == half a dozen linux distros of different vintages, and "fails instantly" == linux kernel panic and a hung byhve process). Host is still OK though - I just kill -9 the offending bhyve, and its all good.
I do have Virtualisation turned on in the BIOS, and do have hw.vmm.amdvi.enable=1 in /boot/loader.conf, so thats the obvious out the way. Maybe I have missed some other obvious thing though.
The only use I can think of at the moment for a bhyve VM would be to run up a kubernetes stack in a VM for some experiments. Nothing production worthy.
Wondering if its worth putting any time into trying to fix this, or is it a slippery slope with Ryzen ?
Or maybe the most cost effective / time effective solution might be to dual boot the thing If I really need to do some linux+kubernetes hacking. (Its unlikely I would need to do both Kubes and FreeBSD/Jail work at the same time anyway)
So any Ryzen + Bhyve hints and tips / success stories ?
thanks
Older generation Ryzen2600 (6c/12t . 65W, very cheap)
Asrock B450-Pro4-F (very cheap)
Nvidia GT710 (very cheap)
64GB of cheap DDR4-2666
NVME drive (very cheap)
FreeBSD 12.0 running great, fantastic little headless server box for general duties and developing jailed apps ... ample capacity, cheap-as, quiet, and power efficient. etc etc. No complaints there.
Bhyve is looking like a non-starter though. I can fire up a freebsd vm, but pretty much everything else Ive tried fails instantly in the installer. (where "everything else" == half a dozen linux distros of different vintages, and "fails instantly" == linux kernel panic and a hung byhve process). Host is still OK though - I just kill -9 the offending bhyve, and its all good.
I do have Virtualisation turned on in the BIOS, and do have hw.vmm.amdvi.enable=1 in /boot/loader.conf, so thats the obvious out the way. Maybe I have missed some other obvious thing though.
The only use I can think of at the moment for a bhyve VM would be to run up a kubernetes stack in a VM for some experiments. Nothing production worthy.
Wondering if its worth putting any time into trying to fix this, or is it a slippery slope with Ryzen ?
Or maybe the most cost effective / time effective solution might be to dual boot the thing If I really need to do some linux+kubernetes hacking. (Its unlikely I would need to do both Kubes and FreeBSD/Jail work at the same time anyway)
So any Ryzen + Bhyve hints and tips / success stories ?
thanks