xhyve-manager
A simple utility to manage the lifecycle of xhyve Virtual Machines on OS X 10.10 and above.
Documentation
Commands
-
xhyve-manager setup
- setup up the host machine's NFS. -
xhyve-manager create
- Create a new virtual machine. -
xhyve-manager start [machine-name]
- start a virtual machine (must be run as root) -
xhyve-manager edit [machine-name]
- edit the virtual machine configuration. -
xhyve-manager extract [path-to-iso]
- helper command to convert a Linux ISO to something OS X can read
Installation
You need to be running OS X 10.10 and above.
To install:
git clone https://github.com/xhyve-manager/xhyve-manager
cd xhyve-manager
make install
Then, you'll need to run setup
to set up your host machine with the correct NFS configuration so as to be able to do 2-way sync of folders.
sudo xhyve-manager setup
This will create an entry in /etc/exports
:
# BEGIN XHYVE
/Users -mapall=501 -network 192.168.64.0 -alldirs -mask 255.255.255.0
# END XHYVE
And (re)start nfsd