1a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" 2a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" Copyright (c) 2012 NetApp Inc 3a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" All rights reserved. 4a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" 5a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" are met: 8a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" 14a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" 26a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" $FreeBSD$ 27a06c84f8SNeel Natu.\" 28a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Dd January 5, 2013 29a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Dt BHYVE 4 30a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Os 31a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Sh NAME 32a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Nm bhyve 33a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Nd virtual machine monitor 34a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Sh SYNOPSIS 35a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyve" 36a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyveload" 37a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyvectl" 38a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Cd "/boot/kernel/vmm.ko" 39a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Sh DESCRIPTION 40a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Nm 41a06c84f8SNeel Natuis a virtual machine monitor that is hosted by FreeBSD. It is used to host 42a06c84f8SNeel Natuunmodified guest operating systems on top of FreeBSD. 43a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Pp 44a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Nm 45a06c84f8SNeel Naturelies heavily on hardware assist provided by the CPU and chipset to virtualize 46a06c84f8SNeel Natuprocessor and memory resources. 47a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Sh SEE ALSO 48*923544aaSBaptiste Daroussin.Xr vmm 4 , 49a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Xr bhyve 8 , 50a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Xr bhyvectl 8 , 51*923544aaSBaptiste Daroussin.Xr bhyveload 8 52a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Sh HISTORY 53a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Nm 54a06c84f8SNeel Natufirst appeared in 55a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Fx 10.0 , 56a06c84f8SNeel Natuand was developed at NetApp Inc. 57a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Sh AUTHORS 58a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Nm 59a06c84f8SNeel Natuwas developed by 60a06c84f8SNeel Natu.An -nosplit 616c899950SBaptiste Daroussin.An Peter Grehan Aq Mt grehan@FreeBSD.org 62a06c84f8SNeel Natuand 636c899950SBaptiste Daroussin.An Neel Natu Aq Mt neel@FreeBSD.org 64a06c84f8SNeel Natuat NetApp Inc. 65a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Sh BUGS 66a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Nm 67a06c84f8SNeel Natuis considered experimental in 68a06c84f8SNeel Natu.Fx . 69