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 15.1-STABLE-HBSD        January 5, 2013                       BHYVE(4)