Minihyve - Easy per-vm jails

Prerequisites

Package dependencies

• vm-bhyve
• iocage

Preparing network interfaces

Minihyve relies on vmnet network interfaces being configured on the host before being passed to the jails.

Create vmnet devices with ifconfig, pass them to VMs by setting a bhyve_options="-s ... entry in the vm-bhyve configuration files instead of the vm-bhyve native configuration directives.

Do not forget to configure the host side of the interfaces too.

Installation

install -m 744 -o root -g wheel sbin/minihyve /usr/local/sbin
install -m 744 -o root -g wheel rc.d/minihyve /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Usage

Creating and managing VMs

Such operations are not covered by minihyve and are to be done whichever way you did it before.

Start a VM

minihyve start vm_name

Stop a VM

minihyve stop vm_name

List running VMs

minihyve list

Send a command to a VM

minihyve cmd vm command arg1 arg2 ... argN

Configuring VMs to start and shutdown automatically

The rc.d service file lets you automatically start VMs at startup and stop them on system shutdown.

Set the minihyve_autostart configuration variable to the space-separated list of VMs you want to start on startup.