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Subject: Re: bhyve and freebsd memstick installer
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> Hello,
> 
> context: freebsd-12-current server, amd64
> 
> I usually install a freebsd guest like this:
> 
> sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 2 -m 4096M -t tap0 -d guest.img 
> -i -I FreeBSD-installation-dvd1.iso guestname
> 
> I only have memstick.img - how do I either:
> 
> 1. convert the memstick to dvd1.iso
> 2. make bhyve use the memstick installation iso (I don't think it can do 
> this as the option to do so isn't in vmrun.sh)

Untested, but since memstick is actually a "disk" image and not
a "cdrom" image you should be able to do something like
vmrun.sh -c 2 -m 4096M -t tap0 -d memstick.img -d guest.img guestname

Your memstick should show up as ada0,
and your guest.img should be ada1.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org