Via Ivan Voras’ blog (yes a few days late….but this place needs more BSD news). Michael Dexter of CFT has published a tutorial on FreeBSD’s upcoming type 2 hypervisor known as BHyVe. The article guides the reader through the procedures to configure, build & boot a hypervisor capable host and guest system. BHyVe currently only supports Intel’s x86 virtualization hardware & the project itself is still currently under early development.
As of this writing, the hyperlinks in the article don’t work.
Link to blog: http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2011-11-13.call-for-testing-the-bsd-hyp…
They should work better now. Some weird syntax errors…
Somehow on topic, since I’m more of a redhatophile, I was really pleasantly surprised to see virtio drivers for KVM work well in Freebsd.
FreeBSD already has one strong type2 hypervisor – VirtualBox.
IMO They should concentrate a lot of effort around VirtualBox, rather than starting yet-another one.
But this is interesting news.
-Technologov, 16.11.2011.