Installed bhyve but bhyvectl is not present. How to get it.

jack999

Hello Folks,
I am a new ghostbsd user. tried freebsd in the past but since I have dual monitor setup and nvidia the ease of installation I get with ghostbsd is what hooked me in. I was trying to run linux VMs using bhyve but unfortunately I see vm command is there but bhyvectl is missing. can anyone help me out please. Attaching system screenshots:

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vpx

That's part of the base package GhostBSD-bhyve, install it via Software Station or manually (sudo pkg install GhostBSD-bhyve).

jack999

Thanks for the reply. That is what I did as a guess. Because I faced similar difficulty as time sync was not working with ntp/ntpd so I had to install the ghostbsd version of it then it get solved.

I have looked upon many tutorials but still unable to run a vm on bhyve/vm-bhyve . I am a keen user of libvirt/qemu/virt-manager in linux for a very long time . If possible do link me to a an article or a bunch which if I follow I can actually able to run GUI linux distros using bhyve plz. Really appreciate in advance.

vpx

You can try this tutorial for bhyvemgr: https://ghostbsd.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-to-install-tiny11-on-ghostbsd.html

Though I could never actually test running the actual VM because I did it in QEMU running on Windows 11 and QEMU is not yet supporting nested virtualization via WHPX.