[OmniOS-discuss] bhyve zonepath?

[Andy Fiddaman]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Johan Kragsterman wrote:

; Hi!
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; I'm doing my first experiments with bhyve, and I'm a bit confused by something in the omniosce site about bhyve:
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; https://omniosce.org/info/bhyve_kvm_brand.html
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; In the example of configuring a bhyve zone is this:
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; set zonepath=/data/zone/bhyve
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; Could someone explain that to me? I mean the pointer to the disk device is another, so what is this zonepath pointing at and why? Am I just stupid, or what have I missed...?

It's pointing at the filesystem used for the zone itself; the thing that is
populated when you run `zoneadm -z <zone> install`. For a bhyve zone, this is
just a handful of files and some loopback mounts but the zone needs something
to mount on / during boot.

Andy

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