The recording of the February 26th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/jGhKX8kjQKg

We discussed a collaboration success, ZFS mount points, vCPU count and memory limits, FreeBSD Linux compatibility, Jailer and Netgraph Buddy in the wild, vm-bhyve and cloud init, securing a UEFI-GOP VNC interface, 'bsdinstall jail', the future of FreeBSD distribution sets, CPU pinning, a Sylve demonstration with Zelta integration and a CLI, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the February 26th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/jGhKX8kjQKg

We discussed a collaboration success, ZFS mount points, vCPU count and memory limits, FreeBSD Linux compatibility, Jailer and Netgraph Buddy in the wild, vm-bhyve and cloud init, securing a UEFI-GOP VNC interface, 'bsdinstall jail', the future of FreeBSD distribution sets, CPU pinning, a Sylve demonstration with Zelta integration and a CLI, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

I would love some recommendations for #bhyve webmanagement frontends? Is there anything #proxmox like yet? #freebsd

The recording of the February 19th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/8ByyJ8nTtQU

We discussed LibVirt progress, a #FreeBSD CTLd regression, bhyve and iPXE, a Production User case study, EDK2 challenges and opportunities, bhyve ARM64, PXE boot, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the February 19th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/8ByyJ8nTtQU

We discussed LibVirt progress, a #FreeBSD CTLd regression, bhyve and iPXE, a Production User case study, EDK2 challenges and opportunities, bhyve ARM64, PXE boot, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the February 12th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/hf4tNsDoLas

We discussed EDK2 at length and other firmware options, a PCI Pass-Through (PPT) issue on #illumos that probably applies to #FreeBSD, bhyve test suites, Windows VirtIO drivers, SR-IOV behavior and desired features, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the February 12th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/hf4tNsDoLas

We discussed EDK2 at length and other firmware options, a PCI Pass-Through (PPT) issue on #illumos that probably applies to #FreeBSD, bhyve test suites, Windows VirtIO drivers, SR-IOV behavior and desired features, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the February 5th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/J3MZPfhxhs0

We discussed taking time to review your open bug/problem/issue reports to verify if they are still valid or should be closed, bhyve suspend/resume, a UEFI boot order issue, a USB Pass-Through patch, #Sylve smart(8) and tmux, root on p9fs, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the February 5th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/J3MZPfhxhs0

We discussed taking time to review your open bug/problem/issue reports to verify if they are still valid or should be closed, bhyve suspend/resume, a UEFI boot order issue, a USB Pass-Through patch, #Sylve smart(8) and tmux, root on p9fs, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

I updated my Honeycomb LX #bhyve bug report and created a CIX/A720 one, both with text dumps.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/289400

https://bugs.freebsd.org/292895

Hopefully these will become first class bhyve platforms.

The recording of the January 29th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/covI4IM27nU

We discussed the FreeBSD Build Option Survey, illumos transitional VirtIO device support, FreeBSD virtiofs updates, user-friendly CPU pinning, a Prometheus exporter for Sylve, the bhyvemgr desktop bhyve manager, user management without /etc/passwd, upcoming Zelta features, best practices for quiescing VMs for ZFS snapshotting, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the January 29th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/covI4IM27nU

We discussed the FreeBSD Build Option Survey, illumos transitional VirtIO device support, FreeBSD virtiofs updates, user-friendly CPU pinning, a Prometheus exporter for Sylve, the bhyvemgr desktop bhyve manager, user management without /etc/passwd, upcoming Zelta features, best practices for quiescing VMs for ZFS snapshotting, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

Taking to @antranigv …

Could you have a #FreeBSD RELEASE system with a single STABLE base package such as #bhyve?

Today I've played around with Bhyve and vm-bhyve for the first time and I like it very much.

I've used QEMU/KVM for everything until now, but I'm thinkering with switching completely to Bhyve.

The first VM is already up and will be the base for the Dark Blue Raven website.

#bhyve #vmbhyve #freebsd #darkblueraven #hypervisor #virtualization

Today I've played around with Bhyve and vm-bhyve for the first time and I like it very much.

I've used QEMU/KVM for everything until now, but I'm thinkering with switching completely to Bhyve.

The first VM is already up and will be the base for the Dark Blue Raven website.

#bhyve #vmbhyve #freebsd #darkblueraven #hypervisor #virtualization

The recording of the January 22nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/1soxbALV2Z0

We discussed recent Windows NVMe driver news, LibVirt improvements, CPU pinning, musl libc compatibility with Linux Jails, Rocky Linux Jails without systemd, a p9fs call for testing, bhyve/ARM64, #FreeBSD logo usage, #Sylve news with a demo, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The recording of the January 22nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/1soxbALV2Z0

We discussed recent Windows NVMe driver news, LibVirt improvements, CPU pinning, musl libc compatibility with Linux Jails, Rocky Linux Jails without systemd, a p9fs call for testing, bhyve/ARM64, #FreeBSD logo usage, #Sylve news with a demo, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

One thing that I always missed in my infrastructure at @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe when running with #bhyve was a missing #Prometheus exporter for metrics of the #VMs (and #jails) - agentless of course... It f*cked me up, that I simply wrote it for my new platform which is based on #Sylve in #FreeBSD (thanks to @hayzam@bsd.cafe for creating Sylve!).

It's written in Go and will be published asap.