Bhyve

Bhyve
Developer(s)The FreeBSD Project
Initial release2014; 10 years ago (2014)
Repositorygithub.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/usr.sbin/bhyve
Written inC
Operating systemFreeBSD, illumos
TypeHypervisor
LicenseFreeBSD License
Websitebhyve.org Edit this on Wikidata

bhyve (pronounced "bee hive", formerly written as BHyVe for "BSD hypervisor") is a type-2 (hosted) hypervisor initially written for FreeBSD.[1][2][3] It can also be used on a number of illumos based distributions including SmartOS,[4] OpenIndiana, and OmniOS.[5] A port of bhyve to macOS called xhyve is also available.[6]

  1. ^ Carabas, Mihai; Grehan, Peter (10 June 2016). "Porting bhyve on ARM" (PDF). Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  2. ^ Dexter, Michael (20 October 2012). "BHyVe: The BSD HyperVisor In Depth" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  3. ^ Kerner, Sean Michael (22 January 2014). "Open Source FreeBSD 10 Takes on Virtualization". ServerWatch. QuinStreet Enterprise. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  4. ^ Gerdts, Mike (March 2018). "bhyve zones in SmartOS" (PDF).
  5. ^ "bhyve Hypervisor". omniosce.org. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  6. ^ "machyve/xhyve: a lightweight OS X virtualization solution". GitHub. 9 July 2020.