Problem and Motivation
The truth less spoken is that containers and Kubernetes are powering cloud today, and that's all running on Linux; like it or not. Any rational FreeBSD fanboy should do well to learn how to get Linux and FreeBSD to co-exist. I'm trying to be a rational fanboy by getting Debian to run as a guest VM over FreeBSD hypervisor (Bhyve).
Preparing Bhyve
I used vm-bhyve to simplify Bhvye config. This wrapper includes a Debian template which on closer inspection is really easy to modify (eg. tune CPU, memory, disk):
loader="grub"
cpu=1
memory=512M
network0_type="virtio-net"
network0_switch="public"
disk0_type="ahci-hd"
disk0_name="disk0.img"
grub_run_partition="1"
grub_run_dir="/boot/grub"
Preparing Debian
Not many steps required; simply use vm-bhyve to download the Debian iso:
vm iso https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Installing Debian as guest vm
Took a leaf from this article describing a similar install (CentOS).
vm create -t debian deb10
vm install deb10 debian-10.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso
vm console deb10 # press CR a few times sometimes helps to show the install screen
Install notes
- Didn't do an UEFI install, and didn't need to modify Grub as described in the above article; it just worked after installation.
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