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.Dd January 5, 2013
.Dt BHYVE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bhyve
.Nd virtual machine monitor
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyve"
.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyveload"
.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyvectl"
.Cd "/boot/kernel/vmm.ko"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a virtual machine monitor that is hosted by FreeBSD. It is used to host
unmodified guest operating systems on top of FreeBSD.
.Pp
.Nm
relies heavily on hardware assist provided by the CPU and chipset to virtualize
processor and memory resources.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bhyve 8 ,
.Xr bhyveload 8 ,
.Xr bhyvectl 8 ,
.Xr vmm 4
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
first appeared in
.Fx 10.0 ,
and was developed at NetApp Inc.
.Sh AUTHORS
.Nm
was developed by
.An -nosplit
.An "Peter Grehan" Aq grehan@FreeBSD.org
and
.An "Neel Natu" Aq neel@FreeBSD.org
at NetApp Inc.
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
is considered experimental in
.Fx .