1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2012 NetApp Inc 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd January 5, 2013 27.Dt BHYVE 4 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm bhyve 31.Nd virtual machine monitor 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyve" 34.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyveload" 35.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyvectl" 36.Cd "/boot/kernel/vmm.ko" 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38.Nm 39is a virtual machine monitor that is hosted by FreeBSD. 40It is used to host unmodified guest operating systems on top of FreeBSD. 41.Pp 42.Nm 43relies heavily on hardware assist provided by the CPU and chipset to virtualize 44processor and memory resources. 45.Sh SEE ALSO 46.Xr vmm 4 , 47.Xr bhyve 8 , 48.Xr bhyvectl 8 , 49.Xr bhyveload 8 50.Sh HISTORY 51.Nm 52first appeared in 53.Fx 10.0 , 54and was developed at NetApp Inc. 55.Sh AUTHORS 56.Nm 57was developed by 58.An -nosplit 59.An Peter Grehan Aq Mt grehan@FreeBSD.org 60and 61.An Neel Natu Aq Mt neel@FreeBSD.org 62at NetApp Inc. 63.Sh BUGS 64.Nm 65is considered experimental in 66.Fx . 67