Ubuntu on xhyve

xhyve_ubuntu.sh

# build xhyve
git clone https://github.com/mist64/xhyve
cd xhyve
make

# dump ubuntu iso to ./xhyve/ubuntu
mkdir ubuntu
cd ubuntu
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.2/ubuntu-14.04.2-server-amd64.iso
dd if=/dev/zero bs=2k count=1 of=/tmp/tmp.iso
dd if=ubuntu-14.04.2-server-amd64.iso bs=2k skip=1 >> /tmp/tmp.iso
hdiutil attach /tmp/tmp.iso
cp /Volumes/Ubuntu-Server\ 14/install/vmlinuz .
cp /Volumes/Ubuntu-Server\ 14/install/initrd.gz .
dd if=/dev/zero of=hdd.img bs=1g count=8

# move back to top-level xhyve folder
cd ..

# create script to run ubuntu installer
cat <<\EOF > .\xhyverun_ubuntu_install.sh
#!/bin/sh

KERNEL="ubuntu/vmlinuz"
INITRD="ubuntu/initrd.gz"
CMDLINE="earlyprintk=serial console=ttyS0 acpi=off"

MEM="-m 1G"
#SMP="-c 2"
NET="-s 2:0,virtio-net"
IMG_CD="-s 3,ahci-cd,ubuntu/ubuntu-14.04.2-server-amd64.iso"
IMG_HDD="-s 4,virtio-blk,ubuntu/hdd.img"
PCI_DEV="-s 0:0,hostbridge -s 31,lpc"
LPC_DEV="-l com1,stdio"

build/xhyve $MEM $SMP $PCI_DEV $LPC_DEV $NET $IMG_CD $IMG_HDD -f kexec,$KERNEL,$INITRD,"$CMDLINE"
EOF

# run text-mode ubuntu installer
sudo ./xhyverun_ubuntu_install.sh