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35 guest inside a bhyve virtual machine
41 .Op Fl e Ar name=value
57 and will present an interface identical to the
59 loader on the user's terminal.
60 This behavior can be changed by specifying a different OS loader.
62 The virtual machine is identified as
64 and will be created if it does not already exist.
66 The following options are available:
67 .Bl -tag -width indent
76 The text string "stdio" is also accepted and selects the use of
77 unbuffered standard I/O. This is the default value.
81 is the pathname of the guest's boot disk image.
82 .It Fl e Ar name=value
85 loader environment variable
90 The option may be used more than once to set more than one environment
95 is the directory at the top of the guest's boot filesystem.
97 Specify a different OS loader.
101 .Pa /boot/userboot.so ,
102 which presents a standard
105 .It Fl m Ar mem-size Xo
107 .Op Cm K | k | M | m | G | g | T | t
111 is the amount of memory allocated to the guest.
115 argument may be suffixed with one of
121 (either upper or lower case) to indicate a multiple of
122 Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes or Terabytes
132 To create a virtual machine named
134 that boots off the ISO image
135 .Pa /freebsd/release.iso
136 and has 1GB memory allocated to it:
138 .Dl "bhyveload -m 1G -d /freebsd/release.iso freebsd-vm"
140 To create a virtual machine named
142 with 256MB of memory allocated, the guest root filesystem under the host
144 .Pa /user/images/test
145 and terminal I/O sent to the
150 .Dl "bhyveload -m 256MB -h /usr/images/test -c /dev/nmdm1B test-vm"
161 and was developed at NetApp Inc.
166 .An "Neel Natu" Aq neel@FreeBSD.org
167 at NetApp Inc with a lot of help from
168 .An Doug Rabson Aq dfr@FreeBSD.org