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<h1>Bhyve driver</h1>
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Bhyve is a FreeBSD hypervisor. It first appeared in FreeBSD 10.0. However, it's
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In order to enable bhyve on your FreeBSD host, you'll need to load the <code>vmm</code>
kernel module. Additionally, <code>if_tap</code> and <code>if_bridge</code> modules
should be loaded for networking support.
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Additional information on bhyve could be obtained on <a href="http://bhyve.org/" shape="rect">bhyve.org</a>.
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<a name="uri" shape="rect" id="uri">Connections to the Bhyve driver</a>
<a class="headerlink" href="#uri" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a>
</h2>
<p>
The libvirt bhyve driver is a single-instance privileged driver. Some sample
connection URIs are:
</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
bhyve:///system (local access)
bhyve+unix:///system (local access)
bhyve+ssh://root@example.com/system (remote access, SSH tunnelled)
</pre>
<h2>
<a name="exconfig" shape="rect" id="exconfig">Example guest domain XML configurations</a>
<a class="headerlink" href="#exconfig" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a>
</h2>
<h3>Example config</h3>
<p>
The bhyve driver in libvirt is in its early stage and under active development. So it supports
only limited number of features bhyve provides. All the supported features could be found
in this sample domain XML.
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<p>
Note: in older libvirt versions, only a single network device and a single
disk device were supported per-domain. However,
<span class="since">since 1.2.6</span> the libvirt bhyve driver supports
up to 31 PCI devices.
</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
<domain type='bhyve'>
<name>bhyve</name>
<uuid>df3be7e7-a104-11e3-aeb0-50e5492bd3dc</uuid>
<memory>219136</memory>
<currentMemory>219136</currentMemory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type>hvm</type>
</os>
<features>
<apic/>
<acpi/>
</features>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<devices>
<disk type='file'>
<driver name='file' type='raw'/>
<source file='/path/to/bhyve_freebsd.img'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='sata'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='file' type='raw'/>
<source file='/path/to/cdrom.iso'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/>
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<model type='virtio'/>
<source bridge="virbr0"/>
</interface>
</devices>
</domain>
</pre>
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<a name="usage" shape="rect" id="usage">Guest usage / management</a>
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<a name="console" shape="rect" id="console">Connecting to a guest console</a>
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Guest console connection is supported through the <code>nmdm</code> device. It could be enabled by adding
the following to the domain XML (<span class="since">Since 1.2.4</span>):
</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
...
<devices>
<serial type="nmdm">
<source master="/dev/nmdm0A" slave="/dev/nmdm0B"/>
</serial>
</devices>
...</pre>
<p>Make sure to load the <code>nmdm</code> kernel module if you plan to use that.</p>
<p>
Then <code>virsh console</code> command can be used to connect to the text console
of a guest.</p>
<p><b>NB:</b> Some versions of bhyve have a bug that prevents guests from booting
until the console is opened by a client. This bug was fixed in FreeBSD
<a href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/262884" shape="rect">r262884</a>. If
an older version is used, one either has to open a console manually with <code>virsh console</code>
to let a guest boot or start a guest using:</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">start --console domname</pre>
<h3>
<a name="xmltonative" shape="rect" id="xmltonative">Converting from domain XML to Bhyve args</a>
<a class="headerlink" href="#xmltonative" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a>
</h3>
<p>
The <code>virsh domxml-to-native</code> command can preview the actual
<code>bhyve</code> commands that will be executed for a given domain.
It outputs two lines, the first line is a <code>bhyveload</code> command and
the second is a <code>bhyve</code> command.
</p>
<p>Please note that the <code>virsh domxml-to-native</code> doesn't do any
real actions other than printing the command, for example, it doesn't try to
find a proper TAP interface and create it, like what is done when starting
a domain; and always returns <code>tap0</code> for the network interface. So
if you're going to run these commands manually, most likely you might want to
tweak them.</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
# virsh -c "bhyve:///system" domxml-to-native --format bhyve-argv --xml /path/to/bhyve.xml
/usr/sbin/bhyveload -m 214 -d /home/user/vm1.img vm1
/usr/sbin/bhyve -c 2 -m 214 -A -I -H -P -s 0:0,hostbridge -s 3:0,virtio-net,tap0,mac=52:54:00:5d:74:e3 -s 2:0,virtio-blk,/home/user/vm1.img -s 1,lpc -l com1,/dev/nmdm0A vm1
</pre>
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<a name="zfsvolume" shape="rect" id="zfsvolume">Using ZFS volumes</a>
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</h3>
<p>It's possible to use ZFS volumes as disk devices <span class="since">since 1.2.8</span>.
An example of domain XML device entry for that will look like:</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
...
<disk type='volume' device='disk'>
<source pool='zfspool' volume='vol1'/>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
...</pre>
<p>Please refer to the <a href="storage.html" shape="rect">Storage documentation</a> for more details on storage
management.</p>
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