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

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?

-- 
John Baldwin