DragonFly on Vultr VM

[Antonio Huete Jimenez]

Hi,

Does it allow selecting the type of storage driver you use? i.e. scsi, 
virtio, ...

Cheers,

On 11/4/22 4:55, Chuck Musser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried using a 6.2 ISO image to install on Vultr (a VM provider) and at 
> the initial installer step where it asks where it should be installed, 
> it only provides a number of "vn" devices that have no space. Vultr use 
> KVM (I am not sure about the whole virtualization stack,but that's what 
> they list in their knowledge base). Someone had posted the same problem 
> and the solution was to use pciconf to see what storage devices were 
> available to the OS and then load the appropriate driver. I couldn't 
> quite figure out how to proceed but I did the following:
> 
> This host lists a specific Intel 6 port AHCI controller (an 82802IR) for 
> SATA and a RedHat "Virtio Block Device" for SCSI. I tried to load the 
> virtio_scsi module with kldload, but it said it was already loaded or 
> simply compiled in. Same for some other modules that sounded promising, 
> like sdhci_pci and virtio_blk. At that point I gave up guessing. Is 
> there a way to figure out what drivers are needed or is the problem 
> something else?
> 
> Also, I tried some earlier versions: 5.8.3 and 6.0.1 and they had the 
> same problem. I know I have used Dfly on this provider before, but I am 
> not sure which version worked.
> 
> Chuck
>