ZFS pool within FreeBSD bhyve guest

Sean Chittenden seanc at groupon.com
Fri Jun 26 16:50:16 UTC 2015


Look at iohyve as an easy way to do this.  You need to export a zvol to
your guest.  You can't export a "file system" but you can export a
ZFS-backed volume.  -sc

https://github.com/pr1ntf/iohyve



On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:22 AM, javocado <javocado at gmail.com> wrote:

> (I'm posting here because I think this may be more of a zfs issue rather
> than a bhyve issue)
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to create a zfs filesystem within my bhyve (FreeBSD 10.1 as
> the guest and host) allowing users of the VM to run zfs send/receive
> commands on the zfs filesystem within their bhyve VM.
>
> Is this possible and what is/are the methods and options for creating the
> zfs filesystem (or volume) within the VM? If there is a way to do this,
> would any of the proposed methods depend on whether the VM lives in a file
> versus a zfs volume? My VM is file-based.
>
> Thanks!
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