bhyve OmniOS Virtual Machines

The bhyve hypervisor supports OmniOS virtual machines via UEFI boot

Requirements

An OmniOS ISO with enabled serial console
CSM UEFI boot

ISO Remastering

mkisofs utility is required (sysutils/cdrtools)

mkdir omnios_iso
bsdtar -x -C omnios_iso -f /path/to/omnios.iso

Edit omnios_iso/boot/grub/menu.list

Uncomment serial terminal and comment splash screen:

#
# To enable grub serial console to ttya uncomment the following lines
# and comment out the splashimage line below
# WARNING: do not enable grub serial console when BIOS console serial
#       redirection is active.
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
terminal serial
#
# Uncomment the following line to enable GRUB splashimage on console
#splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#foreground F7FBFF
#background 333333
#

Create new ISO:

cd omnios_iso
mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot \
    -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o /path/to/omnios-repack.iso .