Builds a BSD Hypervisor operating system image, combining the following:

• FreeBSD - operating system
• bhyve - hypervisor
• libbhyve - python bindings to bhyve
• bweb - python web interface for bhyve
• bapi - python web api to libbhyve
• bapiclient - python client to bapi
• bcli - python click cli interface to libbhyve

Sets the version number, kicks off all other build steps

Fetches upstream distribution files from the specified release.

Locally builds binary packages that the hypervisor requires using poudriere.

Builds a gpt/zfs image that can be plastered on to any media larger that 8GB. Also includes a zfs update image that will utilize freehyve-update to download a new boot environment.

These files are overlayed over the root of the new filesystem.

Contains a package list for the hypervisor, various poudriere configurations. This directory is considered the -e poudriereetc directory by the build scripts.

Simply set the version in freehyve-build.sh, and then execute the shell script on any FreeBSD 11+ system.

If you have done a full build once (and not cleaned up), you can build individual components by executing

sh freehyve-build.sh exec

This puts you into the environment necessary to run a build. Just run

sh build_steps/desired_step.sh

The completed image can be installed on a system by running something like this:

#!/bin/sh                    
DISK="/dev/ada0"             
TEST_POOL="test"             
zpool create -f ${TEST_POOL} ${DISK}p2                     
zpool destroy ${TEST_POOL}   
gpart destroy -F ${DISK}     

gzcat path_to_image.img.gz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/ada0 

This should probably be split into an installer at some point, and an additional build_step.

The first time the system comes up, it will attempt to grow the zpool to fill the entiredisk.