~patmaddox

FreeBSD has a virtualization hypervisor called bhyve. I don't know how to use it. I want to find out.

• [x] start a guest
• [x] guest network access out
• [x] use interface name other than tap0
• [ ] configure host with UCL
• [x] mount disk on host, modify before boot
• [ ] figure out correct rc.conf settings to name an interface
• [ ] nfs mount guest?
• [ ] share host file system with guest?
• [ ] headless / exit out of terminal
• [ ] EFI boot (bhyveload can have security concerns)
• [ ] use a zvol backend instead of file

Obstacles

• still need NAT - I thought I could use a bridge and routing
• wasn’t able to ping router - probably because router didn’t have a route back to that IP? In which case would need NAT.

Notes

• wireless needs to NAT

References

• bhyve(8)
• bhyve - FreeBSD wiki
• FreeBSD as a Host with bhyve - Handbook
• From 0 to bhyve - Klara

Additional:

• [solved] Cannot get bhyve guest network working
• Having difficulty with getting network connectivity to a bhyve instance
• No network connection from guest with vm-bhyve
• [solved] vm-bhyve: No network connection from guest
• bhyve vm cannot access internet
• dch forum post about bhyve DHCP NAT
• using iohyve over wifi