vm-bhyve VS freebsd-src

https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/wiki/UEFI-Graphics-(VN...

Other than that, I use bhyve on my laptop daily since around 2015-2016. It was somewhat painful at first. I had to bake a CD key into Windows ISO for headless install but now VNC support exists and it's easy to output any graphical installer via VNC.

bhyve doesn't offer API and has not the most user-friendly interface (vm-bhyve[1] for the rescue!) but overall, I couldn't be happier with its - typical for FreeBSD - _set-and-forget_ stability.

[1] https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve

I am using FreeBSD in the workstation, I have both intel and realtek, and the main network uses the LAN interface, but I need the VLAN 20 to assign IPs from that range to some VMs (https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/wiki/Virtual-Switches)

I want to assign IPs from VLAN 20 172.16.1.0/24 to VMs (https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/wiki/Virtual-Switches) running on a host where main IP 192.168.1.10 is on the LAN network (no VLAN 20) this is the setup:

Sample config: https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/blob/master/sample-tem...

I use Jails to run applications like Postgres, Redis, Python api in an isolated environment. Jails is native FreeBSD, but isolated.

Of what is properly supported, works beautifully and I have to say vm-bhyve is a joy to use. Everything is very cohesive and solid as a whole; I recommend it for servers but for GPU passthrough, only if you like a challenge.

I recommend to look into some third-party tooling to manage VMs. I prefer vm-bhyve, https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve

I was thinking opnsense + https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve to run a debian instance, which can then run everything in docker containers. It's inception but better utilization of all the services.

Perhaps it would! But the userbase is definitely what finally got me into FreeBSD. The fact that hobbyists were contributing such excellent cli tools as `iocage` [0] and `vm-bhyve` [1] really is what got me over my fears.

[0] https://iocage.io/

[1] https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve

# mv /usr/src /usr/src-orig # git clone https://github.com/Beckhoff/freebsd-src.git /usr/src # cd /usr/src # git checkout phab/corvink/gvt-d Updating files: 100% (22592/22592), done. branch 'phab/corvink/gvt-d' set up to track 'origin/phab/corvink/gvt-d'. Switched to a new branch 'phab/corvink/gvt-d' # make buildworld installworld kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC

Which for the most part is true, but patches for AMD GPUs and for Intel GVT-d along with this repository which has very rough NVIDIA patches as well. I have had luck with the GVT-d on a crappy laptop and it worked booted fine with the UEFI stage along with Ubuntu and Windows. So progress is being made but it's an effort to get and keep working.