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

On 4 May 2024, at 13:02, John Baldwin wrote:

> 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.

+1 for vm-bhyve.  I used an old copy of vmrun.sh for a long time, but vm-bhyve
was a big improvement.

		Mike

> 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