# bhyve (FreeBSD hypervisor)

bhyve (pronounced "beehive", from "BSD hypervisor") is the type 2 hypervisor built into the FreeBSD base system since version 10.0. It runs virtual machines with FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD and Windows, and requires CPUs with Intel EPT or AMD RVI.

- **Category:** Virtualization
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Official Site:** https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve
- **Download:** https://www.freebsd.org/where/
- **Original page:** https://linuxgratis.com/en/bhyve

## Releases

| Version | Release Date | End of Support | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15 LTS | 2025-12-02 | 2029-12-31 | Active |
| 14 LTS | 2023-11-20 | 2028-11-30 | Active |