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+.\"-
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2021 Tom Rhodes
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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+.\"
+.Dd November 13, 2021
+.Dt vmrun 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm vmrun
+.Nd "bhyve wrapper script"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl AETahiv
+.Op Fl C Ar console
+.Op Fl c Ar CPUs
+.Op Fl d Ar disk image file
+.Op Fl e Ar name Ns = Ns value
+.Op Fl f Ar firmware path
+.Op Fl F Ar size
+.Op Fl H Ar directory
+.Op Fl I Ar installation ISO location
+.Op Fl l Ar loader
+.Op Fl L Ar VNC IP for UEFI frambuffer
+.Op Fl m Ar memory size
+.Op Fl n Ar network adapter emulation type
+.Op Fl P Ar port
+.Op Fl t Ar tap device
+guestname
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+script is a wrapper around the
+.Xr bhyve 8
+.Fx
+hypervisor and is located at
+.Pa /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh .
+It can be used to quickly create and power on a virtual machine guest.
+The script attempts to restart the guest if it crashes or is rebooted.
+This is done by running the guest in a loop.
+The
+.Nm
+wrapper must be executed with super user privileges in order to create
+and manage a guest.
+Before starting a new guest, the
+.Xr vmm 4
+device must be loaded into the kernel and a
+.Xr tap 4
+device must be configured.
+.Sh OPTIONS
+.Bl -tag
+.It Fl A
+use AHCI disk emulation instead of the
+.Xr virtio-blk 4
+device.
+.It Fl a
+Force memory-mapped local APIC access.
+.It Fl C
+Set the console device for the output of the virtual machine guest.
+The default is
+.stdio 3 .
+.It Fl c Ar numcpus
+Set the number of CPUs provided to the guest.
+The default CPU count, if unspecified, is
+.Qr 2 .
+.It Fl d Ar disk image
+The virtio disk device file to use.
+This can be the path to an image file or the path to a disk
+such as a zvol device.
+.It Fl E
+Use UEFI mode for the BIOS emulation.
+.It Fl e Ar name Ns = Ns value
+Set FreeBSD loader environment variables as a name=value parameter.
+.It Fl F Ar size
+Use a custom UEFI GOP framebuffer size, the default value is w=1024,h=768.
+.It Fl f Ar firmware path
+Use a specific UEFI firmware designated by
+.Pa firmware path .
+.It Fl H Ar directory
+A host filesystem to export to the loader as the boot filesystem.
+.It Fl h
+Display a usage message.
+.It Fl I Arfile.iso
+Location of the installation CD-ROM ISO image.
+.It Fl i
+Force boot of the Installation CD-ROM image.
+.It Fl L Ar VNC IP
+IP address for UEFI GOP VNC server.
+The default is 127.0.0.1.
+.It Fl l Ar loader
+The Operating System loader to use, the default is
+.Pa /boot/userboot.so ,
+but the
+.Nm grub2-bhyve
+can also be used, for example, for Linux guests.
+The
+.Nm uefi-edk2-bhyve
+port is also available.
+.It Fl n Ar network emulation
+The network adapter emulation type the guest will utilize.
+By default, this is set to the
+.Xr virtio 4
+virtio-net device.
+.It Fl m Ar memory size
+Specify the amount of memory for the guest.
+The amount may be specified in human readable nomenclature such as 512M.
+The default setting is 512M.
+.It Fl P Ar port
+The UEFI GOP VNC port to listen on for connections.
+The default is 5900.
+.It Fl p
+Pass-through a host PCI device at bus/slot/func, for example, 10/1/2
+.It Fl T
+Enable tablet device mode for UEFI GOP.
+.It Fl t Ar tap device
+The
+.Xr tap 4
+device for virtio-net to utilize for network connectivity.
+If a
+.Xr tap 4
+was not specified in the command, a default of
+.Cd tap0
+will be used.
+.It Fl u
+Set the real time clock to keep UTC time.
+.It Fl v
+Wait for a VNC client connection before booting the virtual machine.
+.It Fl w
+Ignore unimplemented MSRs.
+.El
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+To quickly create a guest and start the
+.Fx
+installation process using an
+.Fx
+installation ISO file named
+.Pa FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
+with two CPUs, one gigabyte of memory, a
+.Xr tap 4
+device named
+.Pa tap0
+along with a
+.Xr zfs
+volume located at
+.Pa /dev/zvol/zroot/freebsd-guest
+as the disk device, issue the following command:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 1 -m 1024M
+-t tap0 -d /dev/zvol/zroot/freebsd-guest -i -I
+FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso freebsd-guest
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr dd 1 ,
+.Xr truncate 1 ,
+.Xr bhyve 4 ,
+.Xr tap 4 ,
+.Xr virtio_blk 4 ,
+.Xr bhyve_config 5 ,
+.Xr bhyve 8 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Xr bhyve 8
+.Fx
+licensed hypervisor became part of the
+.Fx
+base system in the
+.Fx
+10.0 release.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This manual page was was written by
+.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .
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