On 5/3/24 11:01 PM, Lexi Winter wrote:
John Baldwin:
On 5/3/24 7:58 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
The share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh is not really an example, but a good
standalone tool. I use it all the time without any modification, and I
guess many other people do, too.
Maybe time to move it to some path that is in the default $PATH?
I really think we should instead be building a tool like vm-bhyve from ports,
either by importing that directly, or perhaps rewriting it in lua and having
that eventually replace vmrun.sh.
is this what vmstated[0] is supposed to be? this was mentioned in the
last status report[1] but it's not entirely clear if this is meant to
replace vm-bhyve, or be something more low level.
[0] https://github.com/christian-moerz/vmstated
[1] https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-01-2024-03/#_bhyve_improvements
I'm unaware of vmstated. Checking its manpage it does not yet seem to have
feature parity with vm-bhyve. Many of the things I think you want a VM
manager to do are also perhaps a bit harder to do in C (e.g. forking and
execing tmux to access the serial console) compared to a scripting language.
Note that jail management today via jails.conf doesn't require a running
daemon, so that seems a bit curious, though perhaps the goal is to handle
auto-restarting if a VM exits unexpectedly?
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John Baldwin
