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.Dd January 5, 2013
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.Dt BHYVE 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm bhyve
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.Nd virtual machine monitor
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyve"
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.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyveload"
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.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyvectl"
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.Cd "/boot/kernel/vmm.ko"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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2016-06-08 08:50:35 +00:00
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is a virtual machine monitor that is hosted by FreeBSD.
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It is used to host unmodified guest operating systems on top of FreeBSD.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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relies heavily on hardware assist provided by the CPU and chipset to virtualize
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processor and memory resources.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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2014-12-26 22:30:18 +00:00
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.Xr vmm 4 ,
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.Xr bhyve 8 ,
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.Xr bhyvectl 8 ,
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2014-12-26 22:30:18 +00:00
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.Xr bhyveload 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm
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first appeared in
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.Fx 10.0 ,
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and was developed at NetApp Inc.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.Nm
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was developed by
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.An -nosplit
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2014-06-26 21:46:14 +00:00
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.An Peter Grehan Aq Mt grehan@FreeBSD.org
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and
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2014-06-26 21:46:14 +00:00
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.An Neel Natu Aq Mt neel@FreeBSD.org
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2013-01-07 06:37:22 +00:00
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at NetApp Inc.
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.Sh BUGS
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.Nm
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is considered experimental in
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.Fx .
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