Set up vm-bhyve in FreeBSD

Introduction

vm-bhyve is a bhyve manager for FreeBSD.

Prerequisites

Recent enough FreeBSD with ZFS. All commands below run as root.

Install

pkg install vm-bhyve
pkg install grub2-bhyve bhyve-firmware # For non-FreeBSD guests

Configure

Configure Install

zfs create -o mountpoint=/vm tank1/vm

Add to rc.conf:

vm_enable="YES"
vm_dir="zfs:tank1/vm"0"

Then run:

vm init

Configure networking

vm switch create public
vm switch add public bge0

References

• vm-bhyve | Management system for FreeBSD bhyve virtual machines
• vm(8)