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.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd January 7, 2012 29.Dt BHYVELOAD 8 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm bhyveload 33.Nd load a 34.Fx 35guest inside a bhyve virtual machine 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl m Ar mem-size 39.Op Fl d Ar disk-path 40.Op Fl h Ar host-path 41.Ar vmname 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm 44is used to load a 45.Fx 46guest inside a 47.Xr bhyve 4 48virtual machine. 49.Pp 50.Nm 51is based on 52.Xr loader 8 53and will present an interface identical to the 54.Fx 55loader on the user's terminal. 56.Pp 57The virtual machine is identified as 58.Ar vmname 59and will be created if it does not already exist. 60.Sh OPTIONS 61The following options are available: 62.Bl -tag -width indent 63.It Fl m Ar mem-size 64.Ar mem-size 65is the amount of memory allocated to the guest in units of megabytes. 66.Pp 67The default value of 68.Ar mem-size 69is 256. 70.It Fl d Ar disk-path 71The 72.Ar disk-path 73is the pathname of the guest's boot disk image. 74.It Fl h Ar host-path 75The 76.Ar host-path 77is the directory at the top of the guest's boot filesystem. 78.El 79.Sh EXAMPLES 80To create a virtual machine named 81.Ar freebsd-vm 82that boots off the ISO image 83.Pa /freebsd/release.iso 84and has 1GB memory allocated to it: 85.Pp 86.Dl "bhyveload -m 1024 -d /freebsd/release.iso freebsd-vm" 87.Pp 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr bhyve 4 , 90.Xr bhyve 8 , 91.Xr loader 8 , 92.Xr vmm 4 93.Sh HISTORY 94.Nm 95first appeared in 96.Fx 10.0 , 97and was developed at NetApp Inc. 98.Sh AUTHORS 99.Nm 100was developed by 101.An -nosplit 102.An "Neel Natu" Aq neel@FreeBSD.org 103at NetApp Inc with a lot of help from 104.An Doug Rabson Aq dfr@FreeBSD.org 105.Sh BUGS 106.Nm 107can only load 108.Fx 109as a guest. 110