FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization

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  • I just researched a bit, mac os x guest vm with pcie passthrough seems possible on linux.

    Dropping the links below:

    https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

    https://github.com/yoonsikp/macOS-KVM-PCI-Passthrough

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  • I just researched a bit, mac os x guest vm with pcie passthrough seems possible on linux.

    Dropping the links below:

    https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

    https://github.com/yoonsikp/macOS-KVM-PCI-Passthrough

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  • vm-bhyve

    Shell based, minimal dependency bhyve manager

  • 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

  • zfs

    OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

  • I seem to remember zvol having known performance issues that were improved greatly in the latest openzfs release.

    If you read https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11407

    It should be in there somewhere

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