hello all, I’m going to create a bhyve vm with 1T disk space, but when I run ‘vmadm create -f vmdefile’, I got the error as following: first of 1 error: first of 1 error: vminfod watchForChanges "VM.js startZone (78e94720-d617-451f-bcf2-261e5cf46670)" timeout exceeded , my question is smartos supports large disk for a bhye vm?

how to make sure would create a vm with large disk? eg need 1T space; where is code needs to modified? best wishes

tozhu: I wasn't sure that any limit exists so I just tried and my attempt to create a bhyve zone with a 1TB disk went without errors. I'd assume you bumped into an issue not related to the disk size itself

tozhu left but might look at logs. I'd be more inclined to suspect an issue assembling the memory needed for the VM, not the disk space.

I've seen bhyve (on illumos, though not smartos) take a long time starting on a system that was short of free memory.

yeah, though some of the bits that got added should mitigate that...

before that, the mechanism to evict things to free up memory for bhyve was broken

(but in a non-obvious way, but all of that code I believe i gone)

when I run bhyve manually (to create an image for a zone), it sometimes not able to launch for different reasons related to obtaining resources, though

gemelen: thank you for response, my storage is a pool on 10* mirrored vdev on 20* 10k disks, do you use SSD (NVMe) or your environments?

tozhu: in my case it's just a 4 hdd raidz1. What are all the errors you see (from the vmadm and from the zones/<id>/logs)?