Bug 215762
| Summary: | Bhyve subsection of Handbook fails to mention UEFI and framebuffer | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czarkoff> | ||||||||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Michael Dexter <dexter> | ||||||||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||||||||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | allanjude, bcr, murray, wblock | ||||||||||
| Priority: | --- | Keywords: | patch | ||||||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||||||||
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Ping. Created attachment 180895 [details]
Suggested supplementary patch
The following supplementary patch reflects my suggestions.
I have added a supplementary patch. (Apply the first, apply my second.) Ping bcr@ (Mentor) I applied the patches in order, but the second one did not apply cleanly.
Patching file chapter.xml using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 91.
Hunk #2 failed at 971.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 1247 with fuzz 1 (offset 72 lines).
1 out of 3 hunks failed--saving rejects to chapter.xml.rej
done
cat chapter.xml.rej yields:
@@ -971,9 +971,9 @@
<acronym>BSD</acronym>-licensed hypervisor became part of the
base system with &os; 10.0-RELEASE. This hypervisor supports a
number of guests, including &os;, OpenBSD, and many &linux;
- distributions. Currently, <application>bhyve</application> only
- supports a serial console and does not emulate a graphical
- console. Virtualization offload features of newer
+ distributions. By default, <application>bhyve</application>
+ provides access to serial console and does not emulate a
+ graphical console. Virtualization offload features of newer
<acronym>CPU</acronym>s are used to avoid the legacy methods of
translating instructions and manually managing memory
mappings.</para>
Can you fix that?
Created attachment 180902 [details]
Updated patch
I've found that when I just apply Dexter's patch, it applies cleanly. I made some corrections and cleanups. I ran it through textproc/igor, but was not sure about wrapping the <option> tags. Some grammar and textual fixes are still required.
Created attachment 181063 [details]
Updated diff against Benedict's last one
Based on Benedict's requests.
A commit references this bug: Author: dexter Date: Tue Mar 28 00:09:27 UTC 2017 New revision: 50094 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50094 Log: Add UEFI section to the Virtualization chapter PR: 215762 Submitted by: czarkoff@gmail.com Approved by: bcr (mentor) Changes: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml Thank you Dmitrij! I have submitted this with the input and review of bcr@ |
Created attachment 178502 [details] Git patch against current handbook source Bhyve in FreeBSD 11 is capable of UEFI emulation, which may come handy with some guest operating systems. This patch introduces some basic description of functionality.