FreeBSD a server and bhyve

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 14:33, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > Am 11.08.2020 um 22:15 schrieb Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org>:
> > this should be pretty straight forward - the first step would be to
> setup the additional public IP's as virtual addresses on your NIC similar
> to this:
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-virtual-hosts.html
> >
> > then setting up your firewall (pf or ipfw) to forward requests coming in
> on one of those public IP's to the specific bhyve VM which is listening on
> a private IP.  this would be identical to hosting multiple services on a
> single IP.
> >
> > here's an example pf config that does the forwarding of SMTP on port 25
> to a VM using a private IP to give you an idea of what the syntax would
> look like:
> > rdr pass on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to 1.2.3.4 port = 25 ->
> 10.1.0.10 port 25
>
> Why so complicated? Why not just bridge the bhyve VM to the physical NIC
> and assign that additional IP address in the guest OS?
>
> At least that is what I do all the time ;-)
>

Hi Patrick,

Do you mind sharing the tools you use (scripts) for creating/managing VMs?

So far, my Googlefu has led me to two sites:
1. https://www.davd.io/install-ubuntu-on-freebsd-with-bhyve/
2. https://www.daemon-security.com/blog/bhyve-simple-0713/

<https://www.daemon-security.com/blog/bhyve-simple-0713/>Looks like there
are several tools out there, so wondering which ones experienced
virtualizers like you love.

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