Install Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS in vm-bhyve

Contents

Introduction

We'll Install Ubuntu in vm-bhyve.

Prerequisites

Properly configured vm-bhyve running on FreeBSD. All commands below run as root.

Fetch image

Fetch the | Cloud Init image:

vm img http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/current/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

Create VM

vm create -t linux-zvol -i bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img -C -k ~aram/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ubuntu

Change the number of CPUs and amount of physical memory in /vm/ubuntu/ubuntu.conf

vm configure ubuntu

Start the VM

vm start ubuntu

Log-in

Determine the IP and log-in:

ssh ubuntu@192.168.0.27

Sadly doesn't have any way of querying the IP, you need to search the DHCP logs or use ARP.

Complete the installation by following the Ubuntu Linux Post Install Steps.