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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 .
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