Help: Getting started with bhyve

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 3/12/13 7:11 AM, suraj swaminathan wrote:
> uname -a yeilds:
>
> FreeBSD suraj FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Feb 23 08:42:38 UTC 2013
> root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

Hmm, it seems you have an i386 system.  I tink bhyve is only supported 
on amd64.

Is this a new machine with a modern 64bit cpu?  If so then you need to 
install the 64bit version of FreeBSD.

>
> Also I have down loaded mt image from
> http://ftp4.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/
>
> Is there some other place to look for the ISO?
>
> -Suraj
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>
>> On 3/11/13 9:24 PM, suraj swaminathan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>        I am really interested in the bhyve project. For starters I loaded
>>> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT version. I went ahead and did a kldload vmm.ko hoping
>>> to load the kernel module, but vmm.ko was not found. I am also unsure
>>> where
>>> the bhyve project source code should be present(having downloaded the
>>> source code). Should it be under /usr/src/sys? Do I have to checkout the
>>> code from the repository?
>>>
>>>    I am new to FreeBSD, forgive my ignorance.
>>>
>> Bhyve was only recently integrated into FreeBSD 10.  What date is your
>> system built?  You can tell via the output of "uname -a".
>>
>> If it's more than a month or two old, you may need to download more recent
>> sources and "make world".
>>
>> -Alfred
>>