Multiple VM hosting using bhyve

[Allan Jude]

On 2016-09-27 17:02, The Doctor wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 04:23:49PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
>> On 2016-09-27 16:11, The Doctor wrote:
>>> The big question:
>>>
>>> Can you host multiple virtual machines on one FreeBSD Box?
>>>
>>> I am thinking of hosting multiple Linux and maybe Win2016 VMs one one server.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, you can most as many VMs as you want, provided you have enough RAM,
>> CPU, and storage IOPS to power them all.
>>
> 
> Dual 1.7 Xeon 64 bit CPUs and 16 GB ECC Ram
> 
> should be plenty.
> 
> All right, what bhyve sequence do I need to 
> distinguish the taps and the guests?
> 
>> -- 
>> Allan Jude
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> 

When you invoke bhyve, just specify different tap devices. They do not
need to be sequential. Each bhyve has a name.

linux1 -> tap1
linux2 -> tap2
windows1 -> tap101

or whatever you want to do.

-- 
Allan Jude