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bhyveload is based on loader(8) and will present an interface identical to the FreeBSD loader on the user's terminal. This behavior can be changed by specifying a different OS loader.
The virtual machine is identified as vmname and will be created if it does not already exist.
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cons-dev
is a
tty(4)
device to use for
bhyveload
terminal I/O.
The text string "stdio" is also accepted and selects the use of unbuffered standard I/O. This is the default value. | |
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| The disk-path is the pathname of the guest's boot disk image. | |
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Set the
FreeBSD
loader environment variable
name
to
value.
The option may be used more than once to set more than one environment variable. | |
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| The host-path is the directory at the top of the guest's boot filesystem. | |
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| Specify a different OS loader. By default bhyveload will use /boot/userboot.so, which presents a standard FreeBSD loader. | |
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memsize
is the amount of memory allocated to the guest.
The memsize argument may be suffixed with one of K, M, G or T (either upper or lower case) to indicate a multiple of Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes or Terabytes respectively. memsize defaults to 256M. | |
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| Include guest memory in the core file when bhyveload dumps core. This is intended for debugging an OS loader as it allows inspection of the guest memory. | |
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| Wire guest memory. | |
bhyveload -m 1G -d /freebsd/release.iso freebsd-vm
To create a virtual machine named test-vm with 256MB of memory allocated, the guest root filesystem under the host directory /user/images/test and terminal I/O sent to the nmdm(4) device /dev/nmdm1B
bhyveload -m 256MB -h /usr/images/test -c /dev/nmdm1B test-vm
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