# At this point I am quite confident you know what bhyve is, right? Well if not, I am sorry, you are missing out!
# Bhyve stands for BSD Hypervisor, and was initially developed by NetApp and later gifted to the FreeBSD project.
# Bhyve has seen a serious evolution and improvement over the course of the past years,
# and it has been merged into SmartOS illumos since awhile now.

# This guide will show you how to setup a new Bhyve zone in SmartOS illumos.

1. Create a .json file and add the following, man vmadm(1m) for reference;
>>>
{
  "brand": "bhyve",
  "vcpus": 1,
  "autoboot": false,
  "alias": "FreeBSD12a",
  "hostname": "fbsd12kvm",
  "ram": 1024,
  "resolvers": ["172.12.0.1", "8.8.8.8"],
  "disks": [
    {
      "boot": true,
      "model": "virtio",
      "size": 10960
    }
  ],
  "nics": [
    {
      "nic_tag": "admin",
      "model": "virtio",
      "ip": "172.12.0.212",
      "netmask": "255.255.255.0",
      "gateway": "172.12.0.1",
      "primary": "1"
}
]
    }
<<<

2. Deploy the zone we just created (pay attention to the UUID of the zone once its created):
> vmadm create -f /opt/freebsd12-bhyve.json
- If all went well, you will see something similar
>>>
[root@homelab ~]# vmadm list
UUID                                  TYPE  RAM      STATE             ALIAS
074bbaff-925c-e35e-e5a2-874630dee577  LX    512      running           alpine.1
efc6e98c-6aee-c819-9a36-d734620a292c  LX    512      running           alpine.2
1a70e929-9582-65ac-d252-d32712c4bbb0  BHYV  1024     stopped           FreeBSD12a
<<<

3. Time to boot it up, (assumig the iso file is in /zones/ZONE_UUID/root/):
> cd /zones/ZONE_UUID/root/
> vmadm boot ZONE_UUID order=cd,once=d cdrom=/FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-amd64-bootonly.iso,ide