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author | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-06-13 22:34:42 +0000 |
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committer | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-06-13 22:34:42 +0000 |
commit | fa3c3b7f1c4c6d3a848e756ab57d8837965455af (patch) | |
tree | 6391a22776a28b6f262e2477e2eeb87b6bff4f66 /usr.sbin | |
parent | 827871ba869d7ff8e7865971b2a24e11ff6dc200 (diff) | |
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MFC r307517, r314342, r316357, r317545, r317777:
r307517:
Typo fixed: arbitraty -> arbitrary.
PR: 213559
r314342:
bhyve: document virtio-console in the manpage
r316357:
Minor style improvements in bhyve.8
Replace "as of now" with "at present". As the change is a really minor one,
don't bump .Dd.
r317545:
Document raw framebuffer device and XHCI device configurations.
r317777:
Improve documentation of fbuf device.
Approved by: grehan (mentor)
Approved by: re (gjb)
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8 | 133 |
1 files changed, 128 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8 b/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8 index f1e713e..16b2245 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 9, 2016 +.Dd May 3, 2017 .Dt BHYVE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -49,10 +49,13 @@ virtual machine. Parameters such as the number of virtual CPUs, amount of guest memory, and I/O connectivity can be specified with command-line parameters. .Pp -The guest operating system must be loaded with +If not using a boot ROM, the guest operating system must be loaded with .Xr bhyveload 8 or a similar boot loader before running -.Nm . +.Nm , +otherwise, it is enough to run +.Nm +with a boot ROM of choice. .Pp .Nm runs until the guest operating system reboots or an unhandled hypervisor @@ -171,8 +174,12 @@ Virtio network interface. Virtio block storage interface. .It Li virtio-rnd Virtio RNG interface. +.It Li virtio-console +Virtio console interface, which exposes multiple ports +to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO +between the guest and host userspaces. .It Li ahci -AHCI controller attached to arbitraty devices. +AHCI controller attached to arbitrary devices. .It Li ahci-cd AHCI controller attached to an ATAPI CD/DVD. .It Li ahci-hd @@ -184,6 +191,10 @@ PCI 16550 serial device. .It Li lpc LPC PCI-ISA bridge with COM1 and COM2 16550 serial ports and a boot ROM. The LPC bridge emulation can only be configured on bus 0. +.It Li fbuf +Raw framebuffer device attached to VNC server. +.It Li xhci +eXtensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) USB controller. .El .It Op Ar conf This optional parameter describes the backend for device emulations. @@ -270,6 +281,102 @@ The host device must have been reserved at boot-time using the .Va pptdev loader variable as described in .Xr vmm 4 . +.Pp +Virtio console devices: +.Bl -tag -width 10n +.It Li port1= Ns Pa /path/to/port1.sock Ns ,anotherport= Ns Pa ... +A maximum of 16 ports per device can be created. +Every port is named and corresponds to a Unix domain socket created by +.Nm . +.Nm +accepts at most one connection per port at a time. +.Pp +Limitations: +.Bl -bullet -offset 2n +.It +Due to lack of destructors in +.Nm , +sockets on the filesystem must be cleaned up manually after +.Nm +exits. +.It +There is no way to use the "console port" feature, nor the console port +resize at present. +.It +Emergency write is advertised, but no-op at present. +.El +.El +.Pp +Framebuffer devices: +.Bl -tag -width 10n +.It Oo rfb= Ns Oo Ar IP: Oc Ns Ar port Oc Ns Oo ,w= Ns Ar width Oc Ns Oo ,h= Ns Ar height Oc Ns Oo ,vga= Ns Ar vgaconf Oc Ns Oo Ns ,wait Oc +.Bl -tag -width 8n +.It Ar IP:port +An +.Ar IP +address and a +.Ar port +VNC should listen on. +The default is to listen on localhost IPv4 address and default VNC port 5900. +Listening on an IPv6 address is not supported. +.It Ar width No and Ar height +A display resolution, width and height, respectively. +If not specified, a default resolution of 1024x768 pixels will be used. +Minimal supported resolution is 640x480 pixels, +and maximum is 1920x1200 pixels. +.It Ar vgaconf +Possible values for this option are +.Dq io +(default), +.Dq on +, and +.Dq off . +PCI graphics cards have a dual personality in that they are +standard PCI devices with BAR addressing, but may also +implicitly decode legacy VGA I/O space +.Pq Ad 0x3c0-3df +and memory space +.Pq 64KB at Ad 0xA0000 . +The default +.Dq io +option should be used for guests that attempt to issue BIOS +calls which result in I/O port queries, and fail to boot if I/O decode is disabled. +.Pp +The +.Dq on +option should be used along with the CSM BIOS capability in UEFI +to boot traditional BIOS guests that require the legacy VGA I/O and +memory regions to be available. +.Pp +The +.Dq off +option should be used for the UEFI guests that assume that +VGA adapter is present if they detect the I/O ports. +An example of such a guest is +.Ox +in UEFI mode. +.Pp +Please refer to the +.Nm +.Fx +wiki page +.Pq Lk https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve +for configuration notes of particular guests. +.It wait +Instruct +.Nm +to only boot upon the initiation of a VNC connection, simplifying the installation +of operating systems that require immediate keyboard input. +This can be removed for post-installation use. +.El +.El +.Pp +xHCI USB devices: +.Bl -tag -width 10n +.It Li tablet +A USB tablet device which provides precise cursor synchronization +when using VNC. +.El .El .It Fl S Wire guest memory. @@ -318,11 +425,12 @@ halted triple fault .El .Sh EXAMPLES -The guest operating system must have been loaded with +If not using a boot ROM, the guest operating system must have been loaded with .Xr bhyveload 8 or a similar boot loader before .Xr bhyve 4 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 block device backed by the @@ -360,6 +468,21 @@ cd:/images/install.iso \\ -l com1,/dev/nmdm0A \\ -A -H -P -m 8G .Ed +.Pp +Run a UEFI virtual machine with a display resolution of 800 by 600 pixels +that can be accessed via VNC at: 0.0.0.0:5900. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +bhyve -c 2 -m 4G -w -H \\ + -s 0,hostbridge \\ + -s 3,ahci-cd,/path/to/uefi-OS-install.iso \\ + -s 4,ahci-hd,disk.img \\ + -s 5,virtio-net,tap0 \\ + -s 29,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5900,w=800,h=600,wait \\ + -s 30,xhci,tablet \\ + -s 31,lpc -l com1,stdio \\ + -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd \\ + uefivm +.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr bhyve 4 , .Xr nmdm 4 , |