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linus

@stefano for some reason, every time I've tried getting Alpine vms to work on FreeBSD they fail to boot because they can't find the kernel, both with your blog post settings and with the default profile (I was using vm-bhyve at the time). Eventually I gave up and tried Debian, and it worked right away. Never managed to figure out why though.

4 July at 9:28 | Wall-to-wall | Open on telegrafverket.cc
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Stefano Marinelli

@linus I'm now using UEFI and that is quite reliable. I've had the same problem with some old Alpine Linux releases

4 July at 9:29 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
Stefano Marinelli

@linus this is one of my Alpine Linux's vm-bhyve config:

loader="uefi"
cpu="4"
memory="4G"
network0_type="virtio-net"
network0_switch="public"
disk0_type="nvme"
disk0_name="disk0.img"

4 July at 10:04 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
linus

@stefano managed to get uefi boot working at least after installing 'bhyve-firmware', but for some reason after running 'setup-alpine' it looks like it keeps booting from the ISO. do I need to manually disconnect it somehow? on boot, the log lists both "bhyve devices" (img file) and "bhyve iso device" (the alpine iso)

4 July at 12:07 | Open on telegrafverket.cc
Stefano Marinelli

@linus yes, you need to remove the iso (just edit the vm .conf file "vm config vmname" and remove the iso )

4 July at 12:09 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
linus

@stefano nice, it works 🥳 for some reason the vm hung so "vm stop" didn't actually stop it, I had already commented those lines out but it probably didn't apply until after "vm poweroff". thanks!

4 July at 12:13 | Open on telegrafverket.cc
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