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diff --git a/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8 b/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8
--- a/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd December 17, 2025
+.Dd December 21, 2025
.Dt BHYVE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -168,15 +168,15 @@
to exit when a guest issues an access to an I/O port that is not emulated.
This is intended for debug purposes and only applies to the amd64 platform.
.It Fl f Ar name Ns Cm \&, Ns Oo Cm string Ns No | Ns Cm file Ns Oc Ns Cm \&= Ns Ar data
-Add a fw_cfg file
+Add a fwcfg file
.Ar name
-to the fw_cfg interface.
+to the fwcfg interface.
If a
.Cm string
-is specified, the fw_cfg file contains the string as data.
+is specified, the fwcfg file contains the string as data.
If a
.Cm file
-is specified, bhyve reads the file and adds the file content as fw_cfg data.
+is specified, bhyve reads the file and adds the file content as fwcfg data.
.It Fl G Xo
.Sm off
.Oo Ar w Oc
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
When using a VNC client that supports QEMU Extended Key Event Message (e.g.
TigerVNC), this option isn't needed.
When using a VNC client that doesn't support QEMU Extended Key Event Message
-(e.g. tightVNC), the layout defaults to the US keyboard unless specified
+(e.g. TightVNC), the layout defaults to the US keyboard unless specified
otherwise.
.It Fl l Cm help
Print a list of supported LPC devices.
@@ -280,7 +280,6 @@
In this mode, a guest reboot does not cause the bhyve process to exit.
Instead, bhyve will restart the VM.
Once the bhyve process exits or is killed, the VM will be destroyed automatically.
-The underlying virtual machine is automatically destroyed when the bhyve process exits.
.Pp
.It Fl n Ar id Ns Cm \&, Ns Ar size Ns Cm \&, Ns Ar cpus Ns Op Cm \&, Ns Ar domain_policy
Configure guest NUMA domains.
@@ -653,9 +652,9 @@
.Dv DIOCGDELETE
requests.
.It Li bootindex= Ns Ar index
-Add the device to the bootorder at
+Add the device to the boot order at
.Ar index .
-A fwcfg file is used to specify the bootorder.
+A fwcfg file is used to specify the boot order.
The guest firmware may ignore or doesn't support this fwcfg file.
In that case, this feature doesn't work as expected.
.El
@@ -675,9 +674,9 @@
Initiator ID to use when sending requests to specified CTL port.
The default value is 0.
.It Li bootindex= Ns Ar index
-Add the device to the bootorder at
+Add the device to the boot order at
.Ar index .
-A fwcfg file is used to specify the bootorder.
+A fwcfg file is used to specify the boot order.
The guest firmware may ignore or doesn't support this fwcfg file.
In that case, this feature doesn't work as expected.
.El
@@ -708,8 +707,8 @@
.It Ar tcp=ip:port
Use the TCP server for serial port I/O.
Configuring this option will start a TCP server that waits for connections.
-Only one connection is allowed at any time. Other connection try to connect
-to TCP server will be disconnected immediately. Note that this feature
+Only one connection is allowed at any time. Other connections that try to
+connect to TCP server will be disconnected immediately. Note that this feature
allows unprivileged users to access the guest console, so ensure that
access is appropriately restricted.
.El
@@ -794,7 +793,7 @@
It is used for passing the CPU count, ACPI tables, a boot order and
many other things to the guest.
Some operating systems such as Fedora CoreOS can be configured by
-qemu's fwcfg interface as well.
+QEMU's fwcfg interface as well.
.El
.Ss Pass-through device backends
.Sm off
@@ -830,9 +829,9 @@
The ROM will be loaded by firmware and should be capable of
initializing the device.
.It Li bootindex= Ns Ar index
-Add the device to the bootorder at
+Add the device to the boot order at
.Ar index .
-A fwcfg file is used to specify the bootorder.
+A fwcfg file is used to specify the boot order.
The guest firmware may ignore or doesn't support this fwcfg file.
In that case, this feature doesn't work as expected.
.El
@@ -841,7 +840,7 @@
.Fl S
option when a pass-through device is configured.
.Pp
-The host device must have been reserved at boot-time using the
+The host device must have been reserved at boot time using the
.Va pptdevs
loader variable as described in
.Xr vmm 4 .
@@ -937,7 +936,7 @@
implicitly decode legacy VGA I/O space
.Pq Ad 0x3c0-3df
and memory space
-.Pq 64KB at Ad 0xA0000 .
+.Pq 64 KiB at Ad 0xA0000 .
The default
.Cm io
option should be used for guests that attempt to issue BIOS calls which result
@@ -1022,7 +1021,7 @@
.It Cm eui64
IEEE Extended Unique Identifier (8 byte value).
.It Cm dsm
-DataSet Management support.
+Data Set Management support.
Supported values are:
.Cm auto , enable ,
and
@@ -1044,14 +1043,14 @@
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Cm nmrr
Nominal Media Rotation Rate, known as RPM.
-Value 1 will indicate device as Solid State Disk.
+Value 1 will indicate device as solid state disk.
Default value is 0, not report.
.It Cm ser
-Serial Number with maximum 20 characters.
+Serial number with maximum 20 characters.
.It Cm rev
-Revision Number with maximum 8 characters.
+Revision number with maximum 8 characters.
.It Cm model
-Model Number with maximum 40 characters.
+Model number with maximum 40 characters.
.El
.Ss HD Audio device backends
.Bl -bullet
@@ -1177,7 +1176,7 @@
can be run.
Otherwise, the boot loader is not needed.
.Pp
-To run a virtual machine with 1GB of memory, two virtual CPUs, a virtio
+To run a virtual machine with 1 GiB of memory, two virtual CPUs, a virtio
block device backed by the
.Pa /my/image
filesystem image, and a serial port for the console:
@@ -1188,11 +1187,11 @@
.Pp
To do the same on arm64:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-.Ed
bhyve -c 2 -s 0,hostbridge -s 1,virtio-blk,/my/image -o console=stdio \\
-o bootrom=/usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-bhyve-arm64/u-boot.bin -m 1G vm1
+.Ed
.Pp
-Run a 24GB single-CPU virtual machine with three network ports, one of which
+Run a 24 GiB single-CPU virtual machine with three network ports, one of which
has a MAC address specified:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
bhyve -s 0,hostbridge -s 1,lpc -s 2:0,virtio-net,tap0 \\
@@ -1202,7 +1201,7 @@
-H -P -m 24G bigvm
.Ed
.Pp
-Run an 8GB quad-CPU virtual machine with 8 AHCI SATA disks, an AHCI ATAPI
+Run an 8 GiB quad-CPU virtual machine with 8 AHCI SATA disks, an AHCI ATAPI
CD-ROM, a single virtio network port, an AMD hostbridge, and the console
port connected to an
.Xr nmdm 4

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