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Preparing the Host The first step to creating a virtual machine in bhyve is configuring the host system. First, load the bhyve kernel module: # kldload vmm Then, create a tap interface for the network device in the virtual machine to attach to. In order for the network device to participate in the network, also create a bridge interface containing the tap interface and the physical interface as members. In this example, the physical interface is em0 : # ifconfig tap0 create # sysctl net.link.tap.up_on_open=1 net.link.tap.up_on_open: 0 -> 1 # ifconfig bridge0 create # ifconfig bridge0 addm em0 addm tap0 # ifconfig bridge0 up   Creating a Debian Linux Guest with ZFS Using ZFS volumes instead of disk image files can provide significant performance benefits for the guest VMs. A ZFS volume can be created by:   # zfs create -V88G -o volmode=dev zroot/debiandisk0   List ZFS volume disk image files: % zfs list   Destroy A ZFS volume disk image file: #   zfs des...