Port details

sysutils/vm-bhyve 1.7.5

Management system for bhyve virtual machines

unaddressed

VuXML only

fixed

open problem reports

Port info

Maintainer: vm-bhyve@FreeBSD.org
Packages: latest: 1.7.5
Upstream: up to date
Last update: 2026-08-21 to 1.7.5 · 0dd4ea4c1b
Quarterly: 2026Q4: 1.7.5
WWW: https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve
Links: cgit · VuXML

Install

Package

# pkg install vm-bhyve

installs 1.7.5 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 1.7.5

Port

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/vm-bhyve && make install clean

# make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/vm-bhyve config  # change options first

Size

68 KiB download · 243 KiB installed

Depends on

nothing

License

BSD2CLAUSE

Options

1 of 4 on in the package: EXAMPLES

Show the 3 options that are off

BHYVE_FIRMWARE GRUB2_BHYVE TMUX

pkg-message

Shown after installing

To enable vm-bhyve, please add the following lines to rc.conf,
depending on whether you are using ZFS storage or not. Please note
that the directory or dataset specified should already exist.

    vm_enable="YES"
    vm_dir="zfs:pool/dataset"

OR

    vm_enable="YES"
    vm_dir="/directory/path"

Then run 'vm init'.

It might be needed to increase the values of the following tunables.
They need to be high enough to allow for a proper shutdown of all VM's.
- kern.init_shutdown_timeout (adjusted with sysctl.conf)
- rcshutdown_timeout (adjusted with rc.conf)

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD version	amd64	aarch64	i386
FreeBSD 16	1.7.5	1.7.5	–
FreeBSD 15	1.7.5	1.7.5	–
FreeBSD 14	1.7.5	1.7.5	1.7.5

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD version	amd64	aarch64	i386
FreeBSD 15	1.7.5	1.7.5	–
FreeBSD 14	1.7.5	1.7.5	1.7.5

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 1.7.5.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (1) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

PR	Summary	Status	Changed
289142	maintainer-feedback? sysutils/vm-bhyve: public bridge fails on 15-CURRENT unless net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs=1 is set	New	2026-04-17

Commits (47)

2026-08-21 07:54Koichiro Iwao (meta) · 1.7.5 MFH 2026Q3 ✓

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Update to 1.7.5

Changes:	https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.7.5

0dd4ea4c1b

2026-07-08 12:30Koichiro Iwao (meta) · 1.7.4

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Update to 1.7.4

Changes:	https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.7.4

0a6419ad5d

2026-03-31 08:47Koichiro Iwao (meta) · 1.7.3

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Update to 1.7.3

Changes:	https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.7.3

161563d3ed

2026-03-25 01:55Koichiro Iwao (meta) · 1.7.2

sysutils/vm-bhyve{,-devel}: Assign to vm-bhyve@ team

Approved by:	driesm [1]

[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55841#1277452

240e09404a

2026-03-16 10:09Koichiro Iwao (meta) · 1.7.2

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Update to 1.7.2

Changes:	https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.7.1
Changes:	https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.7.2
Approved by:	driesm (maintainer)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55841

6f668eff9e

2026-01-25 20:47Michael Osipov (michaelo) · 1.7.0_1

sysutils/vm-bhyve{,-devel}: fix typo in pkg-message

Fix typo in sysctl.conf reference.

Approved by:	ziaee, michaelo
MFH:		2026Q1
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54844

104ae5e477

2025-11-21 12:58Michael Osipov (michaelo) · 1.7.0_1

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Add missing RC script

PR:		291117

02f43b9f09

2025-11-20 09:45Michael Osipov (michaelo) · 1.7.0

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Upgrade port to 1.7.0

Approved by:	driesm (maintainer)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53833
Release Notes:	https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.7.0

4b2bb215f3

2025-07-09 13:56Dries Michiels (driesm) · 1.6.2_1

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update WWW and github account

38fb670d1d

2025-03-19 14:26Dries Michiels (driesm) · 1.6.2

sysutils/vm-bhyve(-devel): add note to increase shutdown timers

PR:	237646

667b6029a2

2025-01-23 08:46Dries Michiels (driesm) · 1.6.2

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update to 1.6.2

Changes:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.6.1
Changes:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.6.2

7cd8261d21

2024-12-02 09:58Michael Osipov (michaelo) · 1.6.0

sysutils/vm-bhyve: remove outdated pkg upgrade message

Approved by:	otis (mentor), driesm
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47864

d965decf84

2024-11-29 17:03Dries Michiels (driesm) · 1.6.0

sysutils/vm-bhyve: take maintainership

PR:		282450
Approved by:	maintainer timeout (consecutive and > 3months)

f4320431e4

2024-11-25 17:34Dries Michiels (driesm) · 1.6.0

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update to 1.6.0

Changes:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.6.0

PR:		282782
Approved by:	maintainer timeout
Sponsored by: 	Serveraptor

21faeacff7

2024-10-31 21:44Michael Osipov (michaelo) · 1.5.0_2

sysutils/vm-bhyve{,-devel}: Remove unnecessary dependency to security/ca_root_nss

PR:		282155
Approved by:	jrm (mentor), driesm, maintainer timeout (two weeks)

cee2de9807

2024-01-10 16:29Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 1.5.0_1

MAN?PREFIX: eleminate its usage  and move man to share/man

e4610fcb8b

2022-09-07 23:58Stefan Eßer (se) · 1.5.0

Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)

fb16dfecae

2022-09-07 23:10Stefan Eßer (se) · 1.5.0

Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

This commit implements such a proposal and moves one of the WWW: entries
of each pkg-descr file into the respective port's Makefile. A heuristic
attempts to identify the most relevant URL in case there is more than
one WWW: entry in some pkg-descr file. URLs that are not moved into the
Makefile are prefixed with "See also:" instead of "WWW:" in the pkg-descr
files in order to preserve them.

There are 1256 ports that had no WWW: entries in pkg-descr files. These
ports will not be touched in this commit.

The portlint port has been adjusted to expect a WWW entry in each port
Makefile, and to flag any remaining "WWW:" lines in pkg-descr files as
deprecated.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)

b7f05445c0

2022-07-19 13:32Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) · 1.5.0

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Update to 1.5

- switch to DISTVERSION

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/compare/v1.4.0...v1.5.0
PR:		265307

0eb5bdfdb2

2022-07-11 11:37Dries Michiels (driesm) · 1.4.2_1

sysutils/vm-bhyve-devel: add new port

Contrary to the sysutils/vm-bhyve port which tracks releases,
this port will track the head of the main branch. The main reason
is that upstream has become stale in creating releases. This way
we atleast get some improvements that have not yet been included
in a release. Last release dates from January 2020.

Changes:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/compare/6385042...ec0e12e

Reviewed by:		0mp philip
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35760

109cfc001b

2021-10-16 11:51Jimmy Olgeni (olgeni) · 1.4.2

*: fix tab vs. space issues, and comments according to the guide.

4460cf727a

2021-04-07 10:09Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 1.4.2

One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday. Reported by:	lwhsu

cf118ccf87

2021-04-06 16:31Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 1.4.2

Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.

305f148f48

2020-01-29 04:01Koichiro Iwao (meta) · 1.4.2

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Update to 1.4.2

PR:		243198
Submitted by:	Lewis Cook <vulcan@wired.sh>
Approved by:	churchers@gmail.com (maintainer)
Relnotes:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.4.0
		https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/releases/tag/v1.4.2
Sponsored by:	HAW International

208f336d53

2019-08-14 14:16Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 1.3.0

Convert to UCL & cleanup pkg-message (categories s)

bc89cd3d2c

2019-04-08 20:37Steve Wills (swills) · 1.3.0

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update to 1.3.0

PR:		237047
Submitted by:	churchers@gmail.com (maintainer)

41a00d83f8

2018-08-11 16:24Martin Wilke (miwi) · 1.2.3

- Update to 1.2.3

PR:		230500
Submitted by:	maintainer
MFH:		2018Q3
Sponsored by:	iXsystems Inc.

63a4e9aecd

2018-07-06 11:17Martin Wilke (miwi) · 1.2.2

- Update to 1.2

PR:	229515
Submitted by:	maintainer

96dba2b234

2018-01-30 17:58Alan Somers (asomers) · 1.1.8_2

sysutils/vm-bhyve: bump PORTREVISION for 460414

Reported by:	mat, danfe
Sponsored by:	Spectra Logic Corp

ed92a8c0e5

2018-01-30 17:20Alan Somers (asomers) · 1.1.8_1

sysutils/vm-bhyve: add security/ca_root_nss as a RUN_DEPENDS

"vm iso" uses fetch(1) to download iso files.  A major source of iso files
is download.freebsd.org.  If no other source of certificates has been
installed, fetch will use OpenSSL's default CA cert and path settings, but
those don't recognize the Let's Encrypt certificate used by
download.freebsd.org.

Installing security/ca_root_nss provides an alternative bundle of root
certificates, which do trust download.freebsd.org.  Since
download.freebsd.org is so critically important to most vm-bhyve users,
security/ca_root_nss should be a RUN_DEPENDS.

PR:		222109
Approved by:	churchers@gmail.com (maintainer timeout)
Sponsored by:	Spectra Logic Corp

5993d66cee

2017-12-23 10:58Dmitry Morozovsky (marck) · 1.1.8_1

Merge 2 useful diffs from the dev tree:

- compatibility with verbose boot
- proper treatment for undefined vm_dir

PR:		222496
Approved by:	maintainer-timeout (since 20170921)

2da3ffc69e

2017-06-24 21:50Lars Engels (lme) · 1.1.8

sysutils/vm-bhyve: Update to 1.1.8

Upstream changelog:
Add ability to set ignore_bad_msr="yes" which is required on AMD processors for
some guests in order to avoid crashes if the guest tries to access registers
that are not implemented.

Also adds generic bhyve_options configuration setting to pass arbitrary
arguments to the bhyve(8) command.

PR:		219860
Submitted by:	maintainer

eb42370a9d

2017-05-29 14:43Kirill Ponomarev (krion) · 1.1.7

Update to version 1.1.7

PR:		219196
Submitted by:	maintainer
Approved by:	mat (mentor)

af93c1cae3

2017-01-03 12:01Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 1.1.5

Cleanup BROKEN/IGNORE for 10.3-

Sponsored by:	Absolight

c1b39669d4

2016-10-01 13:26Thomas Zander (riggs) · 1.1.5

Update to upstream release 1.1-p5

Detailed maintainer log:
Maintenance release
- Fix tmux support for guests that have a dot (".") in their name.

PR:		212999
Submitted by:	churchers@gmail.com (maintainer)

b41d6a39c8

2016-08-17 13:49Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) · 1.1.4

- Update to 1.1.4

Maintenance release

* Some switch functions weren't picking up runtime config changes
* On shutdown, only try to destroy vmm device if it exists
* Ignore white-space at the end of config lines

PR:		211869
Submitted by:	churchers@gmail.com (maintainer)

a6ac21e5fe

2016-07-14 19:01Pawel Pekala (pawel) · 1.1.3

Update to version 1.1.3

PR:		211080
Submitted by:	maintainer

9dad9657ae

2016-07-10 19:13Jan Beich (jbeich) · 1.1.1

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update to 1.1.1

Changes:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/releases
PR:		210923
Submitted by:	churchers@gmail.com

6173dbf42a

2016-06-08 19:10Bartek Rutkowski (robak) · 1.0.4

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update 1.0.2 -> 1.0.4

- Bugfix release

PR:		210128
Submitted by:	<churchers@gmail.com> (maintainer)
MFH:		2016Q2

ea8f740e1f

2016-05-05 11:12Kurt Jaeger (pi) · 1.0.2

sysutils/vm-bhyve: 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2

- Fixes issue with some users unable to reboot Linux guests

PR:		209267
Submitted by:	churchers@gmail.com (maintainer)

48c0b89226

2016-05-03 03:04Jason Unovitch (junovitch) · 1.0.1

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update 1.0 -> 1.0.1

- Address showstopping bug found for ZFS users in 1.0

PR:             209205
Submitted by:   Matt Churchyard <churchers@gmail.com> (maintainer)

db3ba9cead

2016-04-30 13:19Bartek Rutkowski (robak) · 1.0

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update 0.12.3 -> 1.0

PR:		209069
Submitted by:	Matt Churchyard <churchers@gmail.com> (maintainer)

f024e16a7b

2016-04-08 19:44Bartek Rutkowski (robak) · 0.12.3

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update 0.10.6 -> 0.12.3

- Remove obsolete GH_TAGNAME

PR:		208631
Submitted by:	Matt Churchyard <churchers@gmail.com> (maintainer)

0034ff97d5

2016-04-07 03:16Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 0.10.6

Update to 0.10.6.

PR:		208501
Submitted by:	maintainer

74f98ac09c

2015-11-13 04:28Jason Unovitch (junovitch) · 0.9.13

sysutils/vm-bhyve: update 0.8.12 -> 0.9.13 and address minor QA issues

- Add NO_ARCH
- Fix capitalization in IGNORE (portlint)

Changes:	https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/compare/24b6b35...6416f62

PR:		204493
Submitted by:	Matt Churchyard <churchers@gmail.com> (maintainer)

9509ef4614

2015-10-21 15:22Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) · 0.8.12

- Fix BROKEN/IGNORE misuse

Approved by:	portmgr blanket

3520611006

2015-10-20 17:33Renato Botelho (garga) · 0.8.12

Add sysutils/vm-bhyve:

A frontend for bhyve which provides the 'vm' command
Create/start/stop virtual machines easily
Bridged/NAT networking
BSD/Linux guest support

WWW: https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve

PR:		202225
Submitted by:	churchers@gmail.com

b8c9d32a66

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