Re: Starting the bhyve journey

On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 1:23 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> As I had suspected,the first tutorial wants you learn vm-bhyve and iohyve
> (the wrapper for zfs and bhyve),as he says :
>
> *I’m not saying this is the way to go*. Really, really, If you are
> planning on setting things up from scratch to have a nice FreeBSD virtual
> machines server, look into all the cool projects out there like vm-bhyve
> <https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve> or iohyve
> <https://github.com/pr1ntf/iohyve> (to name two of them, I’m sure there
> are more).
>
>
> That's not good. If you want to set up from scratch you should not focus
> too much on studying the vm-bhyve or iohyve,it makes things even more
> complicated because these are tools that change themself during the time so
> you should keep updated with more knowledge.
>
> Take a look at this tutorial :
>
>
> https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-linux-vm-on-freebsd-using-bhyve-and-zfs/
>
TBH, I had used this and even had two VMs running (FreeBSD and Debian).
But I had issues wrapping my head around the tapX networks and also
automatically starting the VMs.
That's why I headed towards using this wrapper.


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