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vmm: Enable unprivileged bhyve
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vmm: Enable unprivileged bhyve

Add the vmm group.
Let /dev/vmmctl belong to the vmm group by default, and give group write permissions.
When creating a VM's device files, make them owned by the creating process' effective UID.

Reviewed by: bnovkov
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54741

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Authored on Feb 19 2026, 2:38 PM

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D54741: vmm: Enable unprivileged bhyve

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rGd4c05edd410e: vmm: Add privilege checks to vmmctl operations

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markj committed rGaf099eaa5ec3: vmm: Enable unprivileged bhyve (authored by markj).Feb 19 2026, 5:16 PM

markj added an edge: D54741: vmm: Enable unprivileged bhyve.

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sys/dev/vmm/vmm_dev.c

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sys/sys/conf.h

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