VMWare to bhyve

Lately i decided to migrate my VM ESX Servers over to FreeBSD VM bhyve

Installing

pkg install vm-bhyve bhyve-firmware

Configuration

Storage

zfs create zroot/bhyve 
zfs set recordsize=64K zroot/bhyve 
zfs create zroot/bhyve/.templates

Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:

# needed for virtualization support 
vm_enable=”YES” 
vm_dir=”zfs:zroot/bhyve”

Now, add the following line to the end of /boot/loader.conf:

# needed for virtualization support 
vmm_load=”YES”

Networking

vm init 
vm switch create public 
vm switch add public ix1

Convert VM Disks to raw

qemu-img convert -f vmdk
/volumes/datastore01/source/source.vmdk -O raw /zroot/bhyve/destination/disk0.img -p

Some Management Systems needs to be migrated.

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