Okay, so I got the converted Windows 10 VM running under #Bhyve without issue, everything is working as it should.

But for some reason, all VMs on this host can only be started once, after a VM is stopped, the host has to be rebooted to get them running again.

There are no errors, no logs, no .lock files, no stale tap interfaces, no zombie processes, just nothing at all. When I issue "vm start windows10", there is a short spike in CPU usage, then nothing happens, and the VM remains " Stopped".

Has someone ran into such a problem before with #FreeBSD 15.0? All other hosts I have used so far ran the VMs perfectly fine... πŸ€”

Hypervisor replication goes brrrrr #bhyve #FreeBSD :
57.8GiB 0:09:02 [ 109MiB/s]

The recording of the April 9th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/XS1L_OwGd90

We discussed VirtIO reviews, Windows 11 VM stability, guest tools, documenting functions and variables in code, #FreeBSD VT console behavior, ReBarUEFI, running the OpenZFS test suite in a VM, PXE booting VMs, masking the Windows hypervisor discovery bit, and more!

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2026-04-09 bhyve Production User Call

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Just migrated from a bhyve VM running Pi-hole to a Jail running Adguard Home.
Few of my 20 (!) clients are lagging behind but a proper rdr rule in pf does the trick.

It’s working great so far but the web GUI is lacking many info. Anyway it’s a win: same service quality (so far), easier maintenance, lower resources, and a Linux VM shut down.

#freebsd #adguardhome #pihole #bhyve

The recording of the April 2nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/dRDCVRtA_SE

We discussed major #EDK2 updates, the long-awaited Sylve port, a #Sylve forum proposal, migrating from #TrueNAS to Sylve, a bhyve to the rescue story, Sylve Packet Filter integration and networking, Sylve use cases, and more!

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2026-04-02 bhyve Production User Call

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GitHub - JRGTH/bastille-manager-webmin-module: Display jails summary list within Webmin and basic jail management

Display jails summary list within Webmin and basic jail management - JRGTH/bastille-manager-webmin-module

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Nice, someone has written an updated #ZFS management module for #Webmin for #FreeBSD which really looks helpful. Its not only offering #ZFS managment, there is also #Samba, #PF #NFS and various other types configuration like #ACL management included, too. Wow!

With this, #Webmin is nearly feature complete. I'm only missing #Bastille or #Bhyve modules.

https://github.com/karmantyu/ZFSgame

I've got a Lenovo M93p Tiny with 16GB RAM and a Haswell Xeon. It's a great little unit that I used to use as my Haiku build box.

I'm thinking about using it as a #Forgejo (and maybe eventually #Codeberg) Actions runner, with a handful of lightweight VMs (Alpine, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku), each using no more than a gig or two of memory.

Does anyone have any tips on doing this? I'm guessing #Proxmox would be a good start, but I wonder if #FreeBSD with #bhyve and #BastilleBSD might also do a good job.

I've just finished with the last call of the day.
It's been nice. Talking with nice people is always a very good thing.

And another Proxmox server will be migrated to FreeBSD - bhyve

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #bhyve

The recording of the March 19th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/c8FhHB4WZk8

We discussed debz, illumos bhyve/ARM64, vPMU virtualized performance counters, building EDK2 with LLVM, LibVirt updates, VM serial console configuration, default storage block sizes, the new FreeBSD bridge code, Sylve NAS features, and more!

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2026-03-19 bhyve Production User Call

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