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35 guest inside a bhyve virtual machine
41 .Op Fl e Ar name=value
55 and will present an interface identical to the
57 loader on the user's terminal.
59 The virtual machine is identified as
61 and will be created if it does not already exist.
63 The following options are available:
64 .Bl -tag -width indent
65 .It Fl m Ar mem-size Xo
67 .Op Cm K | k | M | m | G | g | T | t
71 is the amount of memory allocated to the guest.
75 argument may be suffixed with one of
81 (either upper or lower case) to indicate a multiple of
82 Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes or Terabytes
91 is the pathname of the guest's boot disk image.
95 is the directory at the top of the guest's boot filesystem.
96 .It Fl e Ar name=value
97 Set the FreeBSD loader environment variable
102 The option may be used more than once to set more than one environment
112 The text string "stdio" is also accepted and selects the use of
113 unbuffered standard I/O. This is the default value.
116 To create a virtual machine named
118 that boots off the ISO image
119 .Pa /freebsd/release.iso
120 and has 1GB memory allocated to it:
122 .Dl "bhyveload -m 1G -d /freebsd/release.iso freebsd-vm"
124 To create a virtual machine named
126 with 256MB of memory allocated, the guest root filesystem under the host
128 .Pa /user/images/test
129 and terminal I/O sent to the
134 .Dl "bhyveload -m 256MB -h /usr/images/test -c /dev/nmdm1B test-vm"
145 and was developed at NetApp Inc.
150 .An "Neel Natu" Aq neel@FreeBSD.org
151 at NetApp Inc with a lot of help from
152 .An Doug Rabson Aq dfr@FreeBSD.org