Re: Starting the bhyve journey

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:15:18 UTC
Do you plan to fix the problem by using shortcuts like the wrappers ? I
know,the temptation is high....

On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 1:07 PM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> 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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Mario.