Starting the bhyve journey

Hello all.

I am new to bhyve and have read a lot about it, so I decided to try
creating a few VMs.
I found a HOWTO that is detailed and which appears to be the easiest to
follow: https://klarasystems.com/articles/from-0-to-bhyve-on-freebsd-13-1/
The only differences are that I did not install a fresh FreeBSD-13 server
as I already had one, and I am not using ZFS on my server (host).
I have gotten stuck midway and cannot figure out why: I cannot boot the VMs
I create.
I have tried creating a Windows2019 as well as a Debian12 VM, but both
don't boot.

vm-public: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1492
        ether ce:6f:18:51:d4:51
        id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
        maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
        root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
        member: em1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20000
        groups: bridge vm-switch viid-4c918@
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
tap0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
mtu 1492
        description: vmnet/debian12/0/public
        options=80000<LINKSTATE>
        ether 58:9c:fc:10:ff:ed
        inet6 fe80::5a9c:fcff:fe10:ffed%tap0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
        groups: tap vm-port
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

1.  Windows2019 VM:
    vm create -t uefi -s 100G -m 8G -c8 windows2019
    vm install windows2019 /usr/local/bhyve-vms/.iso/server2019.iso

2. Debian12 VM:
    vm create -s 60G -m 8G -c 8 debian12
    vm install debian12 .iso/debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

root@gw:/usr/local/bhyve-vms # vm list
NAME         DATASTORE  LOADER     CPU  MEMORY  VNC  AUTO     STATE
debian12     default            bhyveload    8         8G             -
   Yes[2]         Bootloader (91866)
windows2019  default        uefi               8        8G             -
   Yes [1]     Stopped

From the above output of `vm list`, you can see that none of them is
booting up.

What is it that I could be missing?


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