Category: VM

Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD

(2025-09-05):
Let me spoiler, it's the best I've seen so far for bhyve and FreeBSD! When Stefano told me about Sylve , I just had a quick look at the GitHub project and thought, "okay, just another of thousands jail manager just with a better web ui, similar to the Proxmox one" and I got completely wrong while giving it a try! When looking at virtualization and container management on FreeBSD, you quickly notice that while there are many tools around, most of them either feel outdated or are missing important features. Some work well in the background but fail when it comes to sability and modern interfaces. This is exactly where Sylve caught my interest. Sylve is an open-source project that tries to make virtualization on FreeBSD simple and user friendly. It uses Bhyve for virtual machines, Jails for containers and takes advantage of ZFS for storage. The backend is .... [read more]

Stretched Layer-2 network for VMs on bhyve and FreeBSD

(2025-09-04):
In today's globalized IT landscape the term "cloud" dominates conversations about infrastructure, applications, and deployment strategies. Public cloud providers promise scalability, flexibility, and resilience but yet many organizations still operate their own infrastructure for reasons of control, cost, and compliance. In these environments, FreeBSD continues to play an important role as a robust, secure, and versatile operating system. One of the powerful tools in the FreeBSD ecosystem is CBSD ( github ). CBSD acts as a management layer that simplifies the handling of FreeBSD jails, bhyve virtual machines, and other system resources. Instead of manually working through complex configuration steps, administrators can rely on CBSD’s unified command-line and TUI interfaces to create, configure, and maintain VMs and containers with ease. But there is also a WebUI bundled within ClonOS which makes use of cbsd. In particular, CBSD makes bhyve—the native FreeBSD hypervisor—far more accessible, allowing administrators to spin up virtual .... [read more]