Bug 252812

Summary: bhyve(8) doesn't mention vale but it appears to be supported
Product: Documentation Reporter: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle>
Component: Manual PagesAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: doc
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Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Oliver Kiddle 2021-01-18 19:44:22 UTC 
It appears to be perfectly possible to pass, e.g. -s 5,virtio-net,vale0:vm1 to bhyve and it will create a virtualised network attached to a VALE switch. It should be listed in bhyve(8) alongside the tapN, vmnetN and (for FreeBSD 13) netgraph options.

In practice, I didn't get very far when trying to get it to work. Attaching my physical interface with valectl -h appeared not to work so perhaps that depends on driver support. I think I had it working for networking between VMs.