Re: git: aa34b1d20e44 - main - vmrun.sh: Add arm64 support

On 5/3/24 7:58 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 01:01:59PM +0000, Mark Johnston wrote:
> M>     vmrun.sh: Add arm64 support
> M>
> M>     For now, we enumerate disk devices before network devices.  This is to
> M>     work around a problem wherein u-boot remaps BARs during boot in a way
> M>     that bhyve does not handle.  Some discussion and experiments suggest
> M>     that this can be handled by having bhyve not map BARs during boot on
> M>     arm64; until a solution is implemented, however, this workaround is
> M>     sufficient for simple usage and doesn't have any real downsides.
> M>
> M>     The console and bootrom are specified slightly differently versus amd64,
> M>     and a few of vmrun.sh's command-line options are amd64-only.
> M>
> M>     Reviewed by:    corvink, jhb
> M>     Sponsored by:   Innovate UK
> M>     Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44933
> 
> 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.

-- 
John Baldwin