Post #1349657

2026-04-15 16:54 UTC

Yesterday I decided to move my test env at work from VMware ESXi 8.0 to Bhyve, so I exported all VMs, Installed FreeBSD 15.0 on a 2x SSD ZFS mirror, and set up the network (bridge / VLAN) today. Now I just need to converte the vmdk files and import them, let&#39;s see if it works. The host is an old Dell T330, and since it uses the PERC H330, I had to modify the FreeBSD installer again, so it uses the newer mrsas driver. It&#39;s Intel Xeon E3-1230 v6 and 32 GiB of RAM are still fast enough for light virtualization tasks, so no reason to toss it. 😁

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@subnetspider@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-16 14:54

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... 🤔

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@matthew@social.retroedge.tech 2026-04-15 17:03

Let us know how it goes. I have not used Bhyve yet, but I'd like to. If there were any resources or guides that were helpful to you, that would also be good to know.

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@dexter@bsd.network 2026-04-16 02:42

@subnetspider For what it’s worth, I run a client Active Directory server under bhyve on a T330 with an HBA330 24/7.

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