Introduction
The BVM is a Bhyve virtual machine management tool based on FreeBSD that allows you to easily manage virtual machines.
Features
- The supported operating systems are: FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Debian OpenSuse Ubuntu Windows10 etc.
- Supports multiple network cards and multiple hard disks.
- There are two kinds of network modes: Bridged and NAT
- Support grub and uefi boot
- Support for ZFS
Installation
# pkg update
# pkg install bvm
-- or --
# portsnap fetch update
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bvm/
# make install clean
Basic Setup
Before running, you need to edit the bvm.conf file to set the virtual machine storage directory
vmdir=/your/vm/dir/
Usage
Usage: bvm <options> [args...]
Options:
--abinfo Output autoboot vms info
--addisk Add an new disk
--autoboot Auto booting vms
--clone Vm cloning
--config Configure for vm
--create Create new vm
--deldisk Delete a disk
--login Login to vm
--ls List vm and status
--ll List vm and status in long format
--os Output os lists
--poweroff Force poweroff
--lock Lock vm
--lockall Lock all vms
--reload-nat Reload NAT redirect-port
--remove Destroy vm
--rename Rename vm
--restart Restart vm
--rollback Roll back to the snapshot point
--setnat Setting NAT's IP-addr
--setsw Setting Switch's IP-addr
--setpr Setting the port redirection list
--showpr Show port redirection list
--showdev Show device
--showdevall Show all devices in class mode
--showdevuse Show all devices in simple mode
--showsnap Show snapshots list of the vm
--showsnapall Show snapshots list of the all vm
--snapshot Generating snapshots for vm
--start Start vm
--stop Stop vm
--unlock Unlock vm
--unlockall Unlock all vms
--unsetsw Unset Switch's IP-addr
--vminfo Output vm info
Example:
bvm --start vmname
bvm --clone oldname newname
bvm --ls