virtualization

I wanted to share my experiences from bhyve GPU passthrough with Windows 10 guest. Many tutorials covered the most of the steps I needed to get it working but there were a few details which I wanted to write down and share with the community. I hope that this post helps others struggling to get...

Freebsd way into the clouds. The most optimal way of hosting your services in cloud depends on needs of those services. And because of that, there is no "best" solution (for everyone), there is a solution that suits *your* needs the most. So, what i will try to do in this article, is to just...

So I just need virtualization working with a graphical setup and network. I tried: FreeBSD host with VBox FreeBSD host with Bhyve VM-Bhyve Long history short: with VBox the vm's don't even boot, just a black screen. And with bhyve (any setup), everything works fine beside network. I'm using a...

Hey everyone! I am trying to set up a Linux VM using bhyve for the purpose of running docker on my FreeBSD laptop (which is essential to have due to my development workflow). However when setting up a Linux VM using either Debian or Alpine images, I am unable to get the network working properly...

Hey everyone! So I'm an Arch Linux user and I've recently learned about KVM/QEMU and PCI Passthrough.As I was learning about FreeBSD, I decided to give it a try as a VM. I currently have a Microsoft Surface Book (1st Gen with Performance Base) which has an Intel iGPU and a Nvidia GeForce GTX...

Hi there, currently I have a FreeBSD 12.3 Server for a school project. The goal of this project is to create a website from which you can create virtual machines. This works atm. The other goal of the project is to create bhyve switches with vlan id's so that the machines with the same vlan id...

I use mac, and today I found something funny. Because I had a lot of things to process on FreeBSD, I used the second console for the first time. However, there was a console message every time I switched the console, and the solution is to enable VT-x on virtual machine settings. On VMWare...

This one. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/servers/racks/ThinkSystem-SR665/p/77XX7SR552S What I'd like to know if there are any potential pitfalls before I get one. The intention is to run some kind of virtualization, like ESXi or Proxmox and one of the guest OSes is going to be...

Can a FreeBSD host run both bhyve vms and VirtualBox vms at the same time? ... would really appreciate a reply from someone before I spent time trying to find out. Thanks! :-)

Hi, I've been running Proxmox 6 with ZFS as guest storage for some while now. As guests I have a couple of FreeBSD systems and I plan on expanding the list of FreeBSD guests migrating away from Linux. I once read that it would be counter productive to use ZFS within the FreeBSD guest because...

Hi, I am compiling a driver for sr-iov. The /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC has the PCI_IOV option specified by default. options PCI_IOV # PCI SR-IOV support I have the following in the driver code #ifdef PCI_IOV #include <sys/nv.h> #include <sys/iov_schema.h>...

Hi, I am compiling a driver for sr-iov and need the following header to be included. #include <dev/pci/pci_iov.h> to call pci_iov_attach_name and set the /dev/iov entry. However, compilation throws a fatal error in the header. /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pci_iov.h:33:10: fatal error: pci_iov_if.h...

Having used macOS, I know "ping -A" will make a beep every time a host is unreachable. It came in handy at times when my internet would act up. I want to do the same, but virtualization of the whole OS is kinda unnecessary. I tried grabbing FreeBSD source code, and individually compiling "ping"...

I'd like to use my home server as a router too. Somebody suggested to use ESXI as host and pfsense for routing and FreeBSD for webserver as guests. The reason that if the router is hacked they won't have an easy time hacking the webserver too and because load on the webserver won't slow down my...

I'm running a Freebsd 12.1 in virtualbox on a win10 host. Guest additions, kmod installed. Followed the handbook; https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-guest-virtualbox.html Mounted a shared folder. Files pre-existing in that folder can be deleted. New files can be created...

I'm running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 and trying to host a CentOS VM (v8) with Bhyve. When trying to do this with the MBR guide on the handbook bhyve page, I could not even get the VM working no matter what, I read that centos machines need UEFI booting with bhyve. So I followed this guide UEFI...

Hi All, I've been doing some testing of my companies real-time kernel modules inside Bhyve, and I noticed that the system complains that it has nested virtualization enabled. This is common of my companies modules; if running on a guest inside Virtualbox, or VMWare workstation, it's as simple...

Hello, I have a physical FreeBSD server I installed using ZFS on root. To ease maintenance I'd like to move it into a virtual machine (VMware ESXi), but since virtualizing ZFS is not recommended, I would like to convert it to UFS. Here's my plan so far, can anyone confirm whether I am on the...

Hey Guys, Freshly I start use FreeBSD, actually I dive on FreeBSD :D I need some software for android , kotlin and rust development, and a good virtualization package like virtualbox and genymotion on linux (I have some project that i must ready system for development ASAP), and some reference...

Hello, I'm running a FreeNAS system on a pretty beefy server that virtualizes a lot of things using hyper-v, I don't think BIS is turned on or even included with FreeNAS distributions, so I was hoping someone here might know where I can download and how I could go about installing and enabling...