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Date:      Fri, 6 Jul 2018 21:37:34 +0100
From:      tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bhyve and freebsd memstick installer
Message-ID:  <7cffa475-4d43-987c-f380-2384f4834ce1@zyxst.net>
In-Reply-To: <201807061732.w66HWgJF053394@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201807061732.w66HWgJF053394@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On 06/07/2018 18:32, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for that, I'll try it next time I can.

I got round it temporarily by mounting the memstick as /dev/md1p3 and 
pointing mkisofs at that.

the -i -I thing of bhyve threw me. I thought I'd need it to point to 
bootable media.

-- 
J.



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