Solved vm(8) - Is it possible to use standard path as vm_dir on a ZFS system ?

[Perceval]

Hello !
I'm all new to bhyve, but everything is in the title : on a system using ZFS, is it possible anyway to set the rc.conf vm_dir to a "regular" path (ie /mnt/whatever), instead of using zfs:pool/dataset?
I'm asking because I'd like, if possible, to store my VMs on a NAS (like I already do with my Virtualbox VMs ; they do not need high performance and can perform over network). That's easier to me to maintain and I'm sure I have all of my VMs on the same location.

Thank you and sorry if that's an easy one... !

 

[SirDice]

Note that sysutils/vm-bhyve is a tool/wrapper around bhyve(8) to make managing VMs a little easier. When you talk about vm_dir you're talking specifically about vm(8), not bhyve(8).

 

[zirias@]

Did you read vm(8)?

Of course you can just use a path here. In that case, vm-bhyve can't use ZFS functionality, so it won't create new datasets for newly created VMs but instead just plain directories.

 

[Perceval]

Thank you both !
Thank you for clarification SirDice, I do understand the logic now.
I read man, but I wasn't sure ; as I'm using ZFS, I understood that I probably had to use a dataset, and tutorials over the Web were all making a shortcut "you're in ZFS>create a dataset ; else > regular path").

Thanks again and please forgive me if my question might look very basic but it's much better to ask...