FreeBSD 10 and Bhyve with an intel CPU

Sergey Manucharian sm at ara-ler.com
Wed Dec 9 03:11:44 UTC 2015


Excerpts from David Mehler's message from Tue 08-Dec-15 18:09:
> I'm trying to get Bhyve going on a FreeBSD 10 system 64 bit. When I
> try to load the vmm module I get an error 6. I've consulted with my vm
> provider support and they say the following:
> 
>  run on Intel’s latest high-end Ivy Bridge E5-2680 v2 processors.
> 
>  > If it's an Intel CPU does it support the Extended Page Tables "EPT" feature?
> 
>  My understanding is that this architecture does support that features
> and I'm not aware of any restrictions we have in place to prevent use
> of that feature.

Are you trying to use nested VMs? There are some limitations descibed
at:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve

Cheers,
Sergey



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