Lenovo XClarity Administrator in FreeBSD Bhyve VM

This is another entry that is sponsored by fme AG company. If You have multiple Lenovo ThinkServer systems to manage You may do that by hand with entering UEFI/BIOS setup and doing needed things by hand … or You can setup a Lenovo XClarity Administrator VM. The problem is that this VM from Lenovo comes by default in three versions … and none of them is by default suited for FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor. VHD for Windows Hyper-V hypervisor. OVA for VirtualBox and others that support OVA format. QCOW2 for Linux KVM based hypervisors. As usual I decided not to give up at that point and tried harder … and that trying led me to some interesting conclusions. I downloaded the QCOW2 version listed as lnvgy_sw_lxca_120-4.3.0_kvm_x86-64.qcow2 file – its about 3.2 GB in size. Then I created the Bhyve VM for that Linux system. freebsd # vm create lxca As I had the Lenovo image in QCOW2 format I used qemu-img(1) from the emulators/qemu package to convert it to RAW format that is suitable for FreeBSD…