Bhyve and network virtualization

Kevin Bowling kevin.bowling at kev009.com
Wed Feb 5 17:59:20 UTC 2014


Has anyone used VALE with bhyve yet?  It's in 10.0-RELEASE 
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/vale/

On 2/5/2014 5:57 AM, Frédéric Alix wrote:
> Thank you :)
> With crossbow, no GUI too.
> I always prefer cmd line thant gui :p
> Thank you for the document. Actually, i am testing the vde2 port (
> http://www.freebsdports.info/ports/net/vde2.html).
> It's very interesting too for build a virtual network.
>
>
> --
> fax
>
>
> 2014-02-05 Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Frédéric Alix <frederic.alix at fredalix.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Now, i need a tool for build a virtual network, like crossbow in Illumos.
>>>
>>
>> Well, it is not a graphical tool, but if
>> you are OK with doing things from the command-line,
>> you can create a bridge network device and create
>> tap interfaces for each BHyve VM.  Then inside your BHyve VM,
>> you can use the vtnet driver (part of virtio) to access the network.
>>
>> Michael Dexter has written a nice document which explains how to do this
>> and a lot more with BHyve: http://bhyve.org/bhyve-manual.pdf
>>
>> --
>> Craig
>>



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