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Hello. I'm preparing to manage few VMs under FreeBSD bhyve, and focusing on implementing a good set of PF rules on the main host machine. I wanted to ask for your opinions, is it wise to have a rule like; pass in/out quick on vm-publicswitch all (vm-publicswitch containing all the IP ranges...

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...

I'm trying to set up "vnet" jailed bhyve VMs which can talk to each other. Below is my jail .conf file: jailname100 { $if = 100; exec.prestart = "/sbin/ifconfig epair${if} create up"; exec.prestart += "/sbin/ifconfig epair${if}a up"; exec.prestart += "/sbin/ifconfig epair${if}a name...

I'm trying to run a VM inside bhyve and it needs to be accesible by VNC. So, I added the following: -s 29,fbuf,tcp=172.16.0.1:10100,w=1200,h=860 -s 30,xhci \ And upon trying to install the OS, I got the following error: fbuf frame buffer base: ... socket: Protocol not supported Device...

Does PCI Passthrough to a jailed bhyve VM work, for the latest version - FreeBSD 14.1? I know PCI passthrough works for bhyve VMs. But does it work if the bhyve VM is inside a jailed? How do I configure that?

Hello. As a continuation of bug #278941, I decided to create a new bug report, because... the problem is broader in nature. # uname -a FreeBSD home 13.2-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p11 releng/13.2-n254665-f5ac4e174fdd MYGENERIC amd64 I work with bhyve virtual machines via vm-bhyve. But I...

I am creating this topic as a continuation of the bug issue - https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278984

Hi, I have FreeBSD installed on virtual private server and has been used bhyve with vm-byhve but the guest os always get terrible network internet speed (avg. in 2 Mbps) than the host (avg. in 1 Gbps). I have tried using debian, alpine, and fedora coreos and it always got terrible network...

Hello, I’m running few bhyve VMs on a FreeBSD 13-RELEASE host. Those VMs use a mix of disk image files and zvols as storage. For example: disk0_type="virtio-blk" disk0_name="disk0.img" disk1_type="virtio-blk" disk1_name="/dev/zvol/sas/vm/rocky-splunk-d1" disk1_dev="custom" I would like to...

I can access the BVCP web interface on my FreeBSD workstation when I have the PF firewall disabled, but whenever I have PF firewall enabled and try to connect to a BVCP web interface, I get the following error: "Unable to connect to Backend module". I would expect it to work if I open inbound...

Hello, My system is FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6, I got Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (2000.29-MHz K8-class CPU) and VT-x: HLT,PAUSE VT-x, enabled by modified the bios. It was enabled before upgrading the bios to latest. The lasted bios does not have the option and vt is disable by default...

Hello folks! :) In this tutorial I'll show you how to install and run BlissOS (an Android-x86 based OS) with bhyve. Table of contents Reasoning Requirements Software used Installation Post-install steps Setup a new installation Migrate a VirtualBox VM Conclusion PART 1 Reasoning Even if...

I'm trying to a virtual maching via VNC using bhyve on FreeBSD 13.3 by adding: and got the following error: How do I resolve this error? What should I be looking at? Please give me some clues...

I executed "pkg add bhyve-firmware-1.0_1.pkg" and it responded with this notice: Isn't 1.01 the latest version? (I got it from pkgs.org) I'm a little confused what should I do. I'm trying to run OpenBSD using bhyve (which I understand requires the bhyve-firmware package). Thanks!

Has anyone tried out Redox on a bhyve vm? They have instructions, but only for qemu and virtualbox, and I don't want to install either of those (I already have bhyve).

Hey folks, I'm running into an issue for a few days now that is absolutely driving me nuts. A few weeks ago I setup a Windows 11 Pro guest using sysutils/vm-bhyve. Installation and configuration of the VM worked without any problems. Then I started to passthru a PCIe USB controller card. This...

Hi there, I have an extremely old BSD machine which is running some internal web services on php7, and I would like to move it into existing VM, which also runs under BSD13. Is it possible? Will it be possible to partition disk on a virtual machine and then copy there files by using tar some...

Hi forum... To start I wanna say that I'm not a newbie bhyve wise, in fact I've got right now 15 bhyve, servers each one with at least 10 vms, mostly Windows, some Linux and FreeBSD as well, the oldest is still 12.2, the newest 13.2... @home I have a little HP microserver in which I keep a...

My bhyve command looks like this: bhyve \ -c 64 \ -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd \ -l com1,stdio \ -m 64G \ -s 0,hostbridge \ -s 1,lpc \ -s 2,virtio-net,tap0 \ -s 3,nvme,/dev/zvol/test/debian \ debian However, after reading man bhyve...

I've been dealing with an issue for about 6 months now. Curious if anyone has ideas how to expand troubleshooting. Summary of issue: Use any SR-IOV capable network card on a Supermicro motherboard Enable SR-IOV Create only vnet jails using SR-IOV VFs: works great Create only bhyve VMs using...