didier gaumet wrote: > > > > What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests > > (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? > > > > I don't need any fancy management GUI like that of VirtualBox, would > > just prefer some minimalistic hypervisor managed from the CLI. The > > ability to access the host's raw disk devices from the guest would be a > > great advantage. > > - if your last sentance is correctly enounced, I do not understand your > usecase My usecase would be, among other things, to access external media attached to the host from inside the guest, e.g. those partitioned and encrypted in FreeBSD-specific ways (geli encryption, gbde etc). > nor did I know that it is possible It is quite possible in bhyve (FreeBSD's hypervisor). You just tell the hypervisor that this guest's disk is not a file but a device in /dev/. > > > Please don't just say "kvm" or any other single word but give a pointer > > to a good step-by-step document. > > This one will probably do: > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization > (particularly the 3rd chapter "System Virtualization" if I understand your > usecase) This is a comprehensive document. In your opinion, what's the best, simplest and most convenient CLI management tool around kvm? -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet
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