bhyve

I decided to post a simple working setup from my FreeBSD box to help others that were struggling to find a working system to learn from like I was. This isn't meant to be an end-all solution but rather a reference and learning opportunity and I would gladly accept help and suggestions on how to...

Hi, I have successfully setup NAT on pf with this in /etc/pf.conf file: nat on wlan0 inet from 10.1.1.0/24 to any -> (wlan0) round-robin I am now trying to achieve the same what is available out of the box on VirtualBox - port forwarding. For example one of my Bhyve virtual machines is...

I'm trying to wrap my head around how virtual bridges/switches/tap interfaces work under bhyve. I guess I'm doing something fundamentally stupid here (or my understanding of how this works is fundamentally wrong), but please bear with me... I do use bhyve on a few of my machines, but on those I...

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I installed FreeBSD 13-2 RELEASE in a bhyve vm, I wanted to install Poudriere but many ports failed with error like: !!! Jail is newer than host. (Jail: 1302505, Host: 1302001) !!! !!! This is not supported. !!! !!! Host kernel must be same or newer than jail. !!! !!! Expect build failures...

There is some writing about running Bhyve within a Jail (testing the opposite). Can you run jails within a Bhyve freebsd instances? I assume yes so, so I spend a few hours messing with a Bhyve FreeBSD I have for testing purposes... Installed a few jails in it and while I can make them...

Hello. I've created a script like the one below to be able to manage my bhye VMs without using wrappers. Actually I use the same pattern for every VM I want to use. Every VM has its own number associated. What changes from one to another is only this line : -s...

So, I know that network doesn't work with bhyve and wifi, I'm using a lagg (wlan0 + em0) setup. But does anyone here was able to make jails+vnet work with wifi(in a lagg setup)?

Hello, I have a question. I would like to run a virtual machine in bhyve HomeAssistant OS. However, I would like this virtual machine to be on the same subnet as the LAN network (hq0). I used the following solution, but something is not working. The DHCP server is dnsmasq (the DHCP interface is...

As you might know, OpenVMS x86 for hobbyist [1] is out since a ~week. Bhyve is not a supported Virtualisation-platform but we have in theory everything need, like AHCI, UEFI , COM-Ports and the E1000-nic. So of curse I tried it but with no success, it hangs at the VMS-UEFI-Bootmanager. Had...

Hello everyone, I know this topic has been discussed several times before, but the problem is still remaining. The Client computer, accessing a VM via VNC still needs to be in QWERTY in order to access another keyboard in the VM. This problem has been fixed on illumos with -K option. I know...

Hello everyone, I wanted to share an article that I recently wrote about migrating from Proxmox to FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor. The article covers the process of migrating virtual machines, storage, and networking from Proxmox to bhyve, and includes tips and tricks that I learned along the way...

I want to tryout virt-manager with bhyve. But it doesn't recognize the if_tap module. {beastie} @ FreeBaSeD-T430 > /home/beastie → kldstat -v | grep if 398 if_lo 402 if_vlan 401 if_tap 400 if_tun 399 if_tuntap 397 if_gif 99...

Hi friends, I decided to use FreeBSD as a daily and it has been great so far (figured out lots on my own with some help from this great community of course!). But I have something that has me tearing out my hair - I have VM's on bhyve and they run beautifully but for one thing: networking. I...

What needs to be written in bhyve.conf for CBSD so that the mouse can move in a virtual machine with a FreeBSD guest? I commented out xhci, tablet, but that didn't help. The mouse responds to click but doesn't move.

Hello. I have freeBSD (13.1) installed on my small home server and am using it as a Virtual Machine Manager. I am using the excellent bhyve hypervisor to manage the VM's. The server is running on the amazing zfs filesystem. I recently bought a NAS and want to backup all the bhyve-vms and...

I added a GPU according to https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/pci_passthru. This shows up as expected, but bhyve complains that "PCI device at 5/0/0 is not using the ppt(4) driver". /boot/loader.conf: kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0" cryptodev_load="YES"...

Most likely I'm missing something obvious, I thought this should be straight forward: # zfs create -V256G -o volmode=dev zroot/ubuntu # gpart create -s gpt /dev/zvol/zroot/ubuntu # gpart: arg0 'zvol/zroot/ubuntu': Invalid argument Then I used sysutils/gdisk, successfully created the...

Hi everyone, I'm running VM-Bhyve with some Windows VMs. Setup is like this article: https://klarasystems.com/articles/from-0-to-bhyve-on-freebsd-13-1/ Will there be a big improvement on performance if the zfs properties atime=off and sync=disabled are set? The article leaves the properties at...

Hey all, Somewhat new to freeBSD here. Apologies in advance if this question is already answered somewhere (I have looked) or if this isn't the right venue. If that is the case, kindly let me know! Anyhow, so I have a FreeBSD 13.1 server hosting a bunch of jails and some Bhyve VMs. I created...