Current Feature Support

A (fairly) complete list of the functionality that vm-bhyve currently supports. Unless noted, all features are available for all types of guest.

• Simple configuration files that can be easily edited by hand
• FreeBSD guests (including FreeBSD based software like pfSense)
• Linux / OpenBSD / NetBSD guests.
• Windows guests
• SmartOS guests
• Guest templates that can be used to specify config/disks/networking/etc for new guests
• Support for running on ZFS, or any other file system
• Multiple datastores - Create multiple locations to store virtual machine data
• Support for sparse files, zvol, sparse-zvol or custom disk devices
• Running guest or installer on a nmdm console or stdio
• Dynamic allocation of nmdm devices for consoles
• Dynamic allocation of tap devices for networking
• Any number of virtual switches with interfaces created and bridged dynamically
• VLAN support for virtual switches
• NAT support for virtual switches
• Ability to connect guests to manually configured bridges (vm switch import myswitch bridgeX)
• Detailed information output for guests and virtual switches (vm info & vm switch info)
• Multiple disk devices for a guest (Up to 3 for UEFI guests)
• Multiple network adapters
• PCI Passthrough
• UTC Time can be specified for a guest
• A virtio-rnd device can be enabled for a guest via the configuration file
• All grub-bhyve guests that require grub commands use custom grub configuration files. These guests show a boot menu that can be accessed via the guest console.
• Ability to snapshot/rollback/clone ZFS based guests
• Commands to create images of ZFS based guests, then provision new guests from the image.
• Ability to set rctl limits