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Hello! I've been converting my home network infrastructure over to FreeBSD and have been really enjoying it so far. Unfortunately, I'm running into an issue with mounting a virtio-9p disk into an Alpine linux VM. The disk itself mounts fine but I'm unable to access the underlying files with any...

Hi, I am in one of those situation where I will have to use one of those mobile USB 4G dongle that I do not "fully" trust. It works great on FreeBSD thanks to the urndis driver. The USB device itself seems to run a highly modified version of DD-WRT, but I can't just re-flash it myself as it is...

I'm just trying to install freebsd to an external drive from my freebsd desktop, configure it, and then use that drive on another computer. The requirement is legacy BIOS mode on that installation. And I want to try the native way. Will this work? boot the MEMSTICK installer (not ISO) usying...

There is no port of edk2-bhyve-csm, so bios is not working. I tried lots of ways like pe to run win7 on bhyve, but not working.

Hi I've just submitted bhyve VMX triple fault bug 292798 I was wondering whether I correctly wrote bugreport, tagged correct mailing lists.. Could anyone please take a look? Any troubleshooting tips are welcome

My first question would be if I'm able to do this to the onboard video? I have a video card AMD for graphics, and also have onboard video. Looking to pass the onboard video to a VM via pci passthru. pciconf -vl vgapci1@pci0:13:0:0: class=0x030000 rev=0xc8 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002...

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...