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Creating a FreeBSD virtual machine using bhyve-vm

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I had a need for FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT. I’m already using sysutils/vm-bhyve (Management system for bhyve virtual machines, relevant blog post). These steps really are very short notes. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 (the host system) vm-bhyve-1.7.0_1 FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT The very short notes The VMs I had before I started: [23:36 r730-01 dvl /data04/images/FreeBSD] % sudo vm list NAME DATASTORE LOADER CPU MEMORY VNC AUTO STATE freebsd-test default bhyveload 1 256M – No Stopped hass […]

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Home Assistant running natively on FreeBSD via bhyve

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This is is mostly written after-the-fact without good notes. Much of what I’m writing is pulled from a tweet and from things I did as I later copied this VM from one host to another. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 vm-bhyve-1.5. edk2-bhyve-g202202_1 qemu-7.2.0 Much of what I’m doing is based up David Reid’s blog post: Home Assistant on FreeBSD. I recommend reading his blog post and using updated values, perhaps from my post,

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Why doesn’t sysutils/vm-bhyve start my hosts?

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After booting, my vms are not started by sysutils/vm-bhyve. Why? Perhaps it’s because I did not set vm_list. Here is me starting them today up after booting the host yesterday. NOTE: I already have a not to myself to add VM monitoring to Nagios. [pro03 dan ~] % slocum Last login: Tue Jan 17 14:52:12 2023 from pro03.startpoint.vpn.example.org [slocum dan ~] % sudo vm list NAME DATASTORE LOADER CPU MEMORY VNC AUTO STATE

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