vbox VirtualBox or bhyve

[Cath O'Deray]

… FreeBSD on your one and only laptop...

Three controllers here, it seems:

% pciconf -lv | grep -E -e '(u|e|x)hci'
xhci0@pci0:0:20:0:      class=0x0c0330 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x8c31 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x2255
ehci0@pci0:0:26:0:      class=0x0c0320 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x8c2d subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x2255
ehci1@pci0:0:29:0:      class=0x0c0320 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x8c26 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x2255
%

I assume that one of the three could be passed through, although I don't use bhyve.

 

[fff2024g]

With Bhyve You can 'passthru' entire USB controller to a VM and then any USB drive you attach to that 'passthru' controller will be only in a VM.

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Dear vermaden :
i don't want to passtru all PCI controller to vm , just want to put one usb_disk to vm . do you know how to do it ? because i just use one laptop , so i can't passtru full PCI usb controller to vm . thanks.

 

[fmc000]

Dear vermaden :
i don't want to passtru all PCI controller to vm , just want to put one usb_disk to vm . do you know how to do it ? because i just use one laptop , so i can't passtru full PCI usb controller to vm . thanks.

You can't.

 

[vermaden]

Dear vermaden :
i don't want to passtru all PCI controller to vm , just want to put one usb_disk to vm . do you know how to do it ? because i just use one laptop , so i can't passtru full PCI usb controller to vm . thanks.

Its not possible at the moment.