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BHYVE(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual BHYVE(4)
NAME
bhyve - virtual machine monitor
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/bhyve
/usr/sbin/bhyveload
/usr/sbin/bhyvectl
/boot/kernel/vmm.ko
DESCRIPTION
bhyve is a virtual machine monitor that is hosted by FreeBSD. It is used
to host unmodified guest operating systems on top of FreeBSD.
bhyve relies heavily on hardware assist provided by the CPU and chipset
to virtualize processor and memory resources.
SEE ALSO
vmm(4), bhyve(8), bhyvectl(8), bhyveload(8)
HISTORY
bhyve first appeared in FreeBSD 10.0, and was developed at NetApp Inc.
AUTHORS
bhyve was developed by Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org> and Neel Natu
<neel@FreeBSD.org> at NetApp Inc.
BUGS
bhyve is considered experimental in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 January 5, 2013 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11