bhyve

bhyve (pronounced "bee hive", formerly written as BHyVe for "BSD hypervisor") is a type-2 hypervisor initially written for FreeBSD.[1][2][3] It can also be used on a number of illumos based distributions including SmartOS[4] OpenIndiana and OmniOS.[5] A port of bhyve to macOS called xhyve is also available.[6]

Bhyve
Developer(s)FreeBSD
Initial release2014 (2014)
Websitebhyve.org 

Features

bhyve supports the virtualization of several guest operating systems, including FreeBSD 9+, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, illumos, DragonFly and Windows NT[7] (Windows Vista and later, Windows Server 2008 and later). Current development efforts aim at widening support for other operating systems for the x86-64 architecture.

Support for peripherals is minimal, with a virtual PS/2 keyboard and mouse plus a VGA framebuffer connected via VNC. Hardware-accelerated graphics is only available using PCI passthrough, but Intel GVT should allow sharing the device with the host.[8]

Applications

Docker on macOS uses a bhyve derivative called HyperKit. It is derived from xhyve, a port of bhyve to macOS's Hypervisor.framework.[9]

References
  1. Carabas, Mihai; Grehan, Peter (10 June 2016). "Porting bhyve on ARM" (PDF). Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  2. Dexter, Michael (20 October 2012). "BHyVe: The BSD HyperVisor In Depth" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  3. Kerner, Sean Michael (22 January 2014). "Open Source FreeBSD 10 Takes on Virtualization". ServerWatch. QuinStreet Enterprise. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  4. Gerdts, Mike (March 2018). "bhyve zones in SmartOS" (PDF).
  5. "bhyve Hypervisor". omniosce.org. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  6. "machyve/xhyve: a lightweight OS X virtualization solution". GitHub. 9 July 2020.
  7. "bhyve Windows Virtual Machines". FreeBSD Wiki.
  8. "Bhyve guests with hardware accelerated graphics". FreeBSD Presentations and Papers.
  9. "moby/hyperkit: A toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application". GitHub. Moby. 10 July 2020.

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