This provides a single, consistent way to configure boot method. the guest listing
now shows uefi and uefi-csm guests without having to fudge the uefi setting into loader column.
Makes some sense as we display "uefi" under "Loader" when listing guests and only one can be set.
Old uefi="" setting can still be set to "csm" to choose the csm firmware.
To reduce code we originally parsed some options globally, such as "vm -f start ...".
However this was confusing and inconsistent, especially in relation to other commands
such as zfs(8).
Dataset is only of use if running on ZFS, but in that case it is very
useful if the script wants to create snapshots/etc, and the path can
be retrieved from pwd/cwd if needed.
Use the -f option to force commands such as reset/destroy/poweroff.
Unfortunately this same option is used for foreground mode when running a vm,
but -f ties up with the force option for many other commands.
New options to 'vm switch create' to allow an ip and/or mtu to
be assigned to standard/vxlan switches. Also standard,vxlan &
custom switches can be set as private so no guest interfaces can
communicate.
We already had 3 types of switch (although you could only test vale manually),
with fairly ugly code to handle the differences. Now that a fourth has been added,
split each type into their own 'module'. This adds test vxlan support which can
create arbitrary virtual L2 networks by tunneling traffic over UDP L3.
I think it's more consistent to have every guest use a UTC clock
by default. Apparently OpenBSD actually assumes a UTC clock. As long
as the guest is configured correctly it will show correct time (although
something like ntp should be used to keep accurate time)
If you have a directory (or network mount) containing iso files, you
can configure vm-bhyve to look there by adding it as
a media datastore. (vm datastore iso my-media /path/to/iso/dir).
Also we now look in the current dir for iso files, and accept full paths.
Add information on supported global config (one console so far).
mention foreground/interactive mode under start/install.
mention ability to start multiple guests with start command.
update windows details as 11 will have vnc support.
So far we only have a "console" setting, but there may be more
in the future. This change provides 'vm get' & 'vm set' commands,
that can view or change these config settings.
This is supported when using tmux for the guest console.
The guest is started on a tmux session, but the session is not
detached so you are immediately placed inside the guest. Similar to
foreground mode, but you can leave the guest running and return to host
using the tmux detach keys (Ctrl+b d)
Get rid of ahci_multi_device="yes" and replace with
ahci_device_limit="X", where X is between 2-32. This allows
users to control the number of devices that will be put on
a single controller. If set to 1 (the default), we use the
original bhyve syntax.
