DragonFly on Vultr VM

[Dongsheng Song]

Vultr only creates a SCSI storage controller for us, and attached a
virtio block device for local disk access.

# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sr0     11:0    1 1024M  0 rom
vda    254:0    0   32G  0 disk
└─vda1 254:1    0   32G  0 part /

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:02.3 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:02.5 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:02.6 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:02.7 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.1 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.2 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.3 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.4 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.5 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.6 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:03.7 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCIe Root port
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH)
6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio network device (rev 01)
02:00.0 USB controller: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU XHCI Host Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio block device (rev 01)
04:00.0 Unclassified device [00ff]: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio memory balloon (rev 01)
05:00.0 Unclassified device [00ff]: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio RNG (rev 01)

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 9:59 PM Antonio Huete Jimenez
<tuxillo at quantumachine.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> >