Although the name is resonant of a Beyonce fan group, bhyve is an interesting hypervisor for FreeBSD. To get started, I followed the script in the FreeBSD Handbook and within about 5 minutes, had a FreeBSD guest running on a VM inside my FreeBSD host. I did get caught in a boot loop. Going to the shell and using shutdown -p now got me out of it and I was able to start the VM normally using sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.
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