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author | neel <neel@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-01-08 06:00:32 +0000 |
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committer | neel <neel@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-01-08 06:00:32 +0000 |
commit | 3690b68127142ebb2d5a307cb397988a0090adae (patch) | |
tree | 92a9e0481143b524963444c09aaa21d597d973ae /usr.sbin/bhyveload | |
parent | 999dfea6a9e2fadae2d07ec5ae1749927f7c55e6 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-3690b68127142ebb2d5a307cb397988a0090adae.zip FreeBSD-src-3690b68127142ebb2d5a307cb397988a0090adae.tar.gz |
Add the 'bhyveload(8)' man page.
Obtained from: NetApp
Reviewed by: grehan
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/bhyveload')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/bhyveload/Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/bhyveload/bhyveload.8 | 130 |
2 files changed, 131 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/bhyveload/Makefile b/usr.sbin/bhyveload/Makefile index 7d0dd92..7b00818 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/bhyveload/Makefile +++ b/usr.sbin/bhyveload/Makefile @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PROG= bhyveload SRCS= bhyveload.c -NO_MAN= +MAN= bhyveload.8 DPADD+= ${LIBVMMAPI} LDADD+= -lvmmapi diff --git a/usr.sbin/bhyveload/bhyveload.8 b/usr.sbin/bhyveload/bhyveload.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2918c4c --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/bhyveload/bhyveload.8 @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2012 NetApp Inc +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd January 7, 2012 +.Dt BHYVELOAD 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm bhyveload +.Nd load a +.Fx +guest inside a bhyve virtual machine +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl m Ar lowmem +.Op Fl M Ar highmem +.Op Fl d Ar disk-path +.Op Fl h Ar host-path +.Ar vmname +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is used to load a +.Fx +guest inside a +.Xr bhyve 4 +virtual machine. +.Pp +.Nm +is based on +.Xr loader 8 +and will present an interface identical to +.Fx +loader on the user's terminal. +.Pp +The virtual machine is identified as +.Ar vmname +and will be created if it does not already exist. +.Sh OPTIONS +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl m Ar lowmem +.Ar lowmem +is the amount of memory allocated below 4GB in the guest's physical address +space. +.Pp +The default value of +.Ar lowmem +is 256MB. +.It Fl M Ar highmem +.Ar highmem +is the amount of memory allocated above 4GB in the guest's physical address +space. +.Pp +The default value of +.Ar highmem +is 0MB. +.It Fl d Ar disk-path +The +.Ar disk-path +is the pathname of the guest's boot disk image. +.It Fl h Ar host-path +The +.Ar host-path +is the directory at the top of the guest's boot filesystem. + +.Sh EXAMPLES +To create a virtual machine named +.Ar freebsd-vm +that boots off the ISO image +.Pa /freebsd/release.iso +and has 1GB memory allocated to it: + +.Dl "bhyveload -m 256 -M 768 -d /freebsd/release.iso freebsd-vm + +In the example above the 1GB allocation is split in two segments: +.Bl -dash -compact +.It +256MB below the 4GB boundary (0MB - 256MB) +.It +768MB above the 4GB boundary (4096MB - 4864MB) +.El + +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bhyve 4 , +.Xr bhyve 8 , +.Xr loader 8 , +.Xr vmm 4 + +.Sh HISTORY +.Nm +first appeared in +.Fx 10.0 , +and was developed at NetApp Inc. + +.Sh AUTHORS +.Nm +was developed by +.An -nosplit +.An "Neel Natu" Aq neel@FreeBSD.org +at NetApp Inc with a lot of help from +.An Doug Rabson Aq dfr@FreeBSD.org + +.Sh BUGS +.Nm +can load only +.Fx +as a guest. |