bhyve

Trying to get bhyve working again after re-installing my system and have a basic error when runningvm_init. zfs list shows: rc.conf has I'm sure I've overlooked something simple but haven't spotted it yet. Anyone?

I wanted to get your opinion on an infrastructure decision I’m considering. I have an HP DL60 Gen9 server with multiple physical network interfaces, and my plan is to deploy it as a firewall appliance. Instead of installing the firewall OS directly on bare metal, I’m considering installing a...

Hello, I need your help and advice on how to add a member interface which has an IP address assigned. I use vm-bhyve for management of my VM's. Nowadays, I am ware of this notice: vm-public: WARNING: Adding member interface igb0 which has an IP address assigned is deprecated and will be...

Host: FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5 Guest: Alpine Linux 3.22.2 I've set up a bhyve VM on my system as above, and added some virtio-9p devices to share various host files, for example (vm-bhyve): disk3_type="virtio-9p" disk3_dev="custom" disk3_name="storage=/mnt" On the guest, I use the following...

"The Ephemeral Concept" of AppJail is easy to implement in jails due to how easily they are managed, but virtual machines are just another way to achieve this, albeit a more complex one. In this article, we will implement "The Ephemeral Concept" on FreeBSD virtual machines using nbdkit as our...

I did something new for me recently. I installed FreeBSD 14.3 on a used Dell PowerEdge T430. It features dual Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 processors, 160GB of ECC RAM, a flashed Dell PERC H330 RAID card, a Kingston KC600 256GB SATA SSD, 8 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB NAS HDDs and so on. (I've attached the...

Hi, My Byhve VM suddenly won't boot. I use vm-bhyve. It worked fine until yesterday. I upgraded my FreeBSD STABLE-14 to latest src, may be it is related ? The config : loader="grub" grub_run_partition="2" cpu=2 memory=4096M network0_type="virtio-net" network0_switch="public"...

Just sharing some first impressions and testing of this work: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU As far as I understand, the work is nearing completion and the more people test it, the more chances there are to get it into the upstream. If my memory...

In this article, we'll deploy both Jellyfin and Jellyseerr using Overlord, a DevOps-oriented tool for FreeBSD that emphasizes a declarative approach. Link: https://dtxdf.github.io/jellyseerr.html

Overlord will take care not to destroy the jail with your valuable virtual machine in vmjail deployments. However, this approach does not honor "The Ephemeral Concept" of AppJail, which has many advantages that cannot be ignored, particularly when updating or upgrading the jail and its contents...

Hi, is anybody running bhyve VMs inside of jails and can share experiences? The idea came to my mind because of OmniOS (illumos) is running bhyve VMs inside of a non-global zone: https://omnios.org/info/bhyve_kvm_brand.html When searching the web I've found this article, so it is possible...

I have been running quite a few windows 11 virtual machines on a couple of servers using BHYVE and 14.2-RELEASE. Upon upgrading win11 to 24H2 the host cpu usage at idle (4 cpu guest) has increase from ~2% to %20 of a CPU (based on top). This has happened on both intel and AMD CPUs. The other...

Hello everyone, I am experiencing issues booting an SSD with an MX Linux installation using Bhyve on FreeBSD. This problem appears to have started after I switched from an Intel B85 motherboard with a Xeon E3 CPU to an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G on an ASUS B450M-A II motherboard. The VM worked fine on...

I'm running a Windows 11 guest on a bhyve VM and I connect to it over RDP. This is the setup I have been using for quite some time and it generally works quite well. However, now I installed an application in the Windows guest which refuses to start as it requires OpenGL 2.0 support. I was...

Hi, I created a Windows VM with vm-bhyve, this VM has two disks, one a raw image configured as "ahci-hd" and the 2nd is a zvol. As I noticed that 2nd disk (disk D: in the Windows vm) is painfully slow, and hangs the VM. I stopped it and I'm converting to raw with this command: dd...

I understand VMM is tightly coupled with Bhyve, but for an experiment I wanted to get a small real mode program running using only vmm (a replica of nvmm). This was my best attempt. I made sure to set the segment registers appropriately, but gdb tells me I'm calling vm_run improperly. Any help...

Hi, I'm virtualising my Linux development environment for $DAY_JOB using bhyve, vm-bhyve, and NAT. I expose files on the guest to the host using NFS, and edit those files on the host. Networking is via NAT on either Ethernet (on my desktop), or Wi-Fi (on my laptop). It's the latter that's...

I tried switching from virtualbox to bhyve (using vm-bhyve) for running a windows 10 vm and everything worked fine including audio input & output, good disk transfer and network speeds with virtio devices, etc. However, I could not manage to get the same performance that I get in virtualbox...

I have managed to get Invidious working in a Ubuntu Bhyve vm with Podman Are you fed up with Youtube showing you rubbish and just want to see the channels you have subscribed too The Invidious urls work with mpv and you can view the site using Emacs as well Invidious set up notes after the...

Ubuntu 24.04 installed with vm-bhyve after a bit of work https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/blob/master/freebsd/vm-bhyve.org install packages doas pkg install bhyve-firmware grub2-bhyve edk2-bhyve vm-bhyve-devel create the zfs datasets doas zfs create -o mountpoint=/vm zroot/vm doas...