[CFH] devel/libvirt, adding missing network piece
Jaques
jacquescale at clovermail.net
Mon Feb 6 13:43:01 UTC 2012
Are plans to port vnet jails + Hierarchical Resource Limits?
LXC is supported on libvirt
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 14:52 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 14:00 -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
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> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I am the maintainer of devel/libvirt, which is a toolkit to interact with
> > virtualization capabilities. Along with this, I maintain some other ports
> > that depend on libvirt that are of a graphical nature.
> >
> > As it stands now, this port is incomplete in that the network layer of it is
> > disabled. Having the network piece missing is a major deficiency of the port.
> > Libvirt is under very active development cycle, and there is at least one very
> > active developer that uses FreeBSD.
> >
> > I had written this up sometime ago, now, and was hoping that someone here
> > would have the ability to update the code:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2011-04-2011-06.html#libvirt-networking-port
> >
> > The advantages of getting a fully working libvirt port in FreeBSD would be
> > very helpful insofar as monitoring and utilities for the virtualization community.
> > If I had the coding experience, I would most definitely step up.
> >
> > I am also going to be reaching out to the development community for libvirt
> > and virt-manager, to inquire if there are any plans on supporting BHyVe.
> >
> > Many thanks, and hope someone out there can help! :)
> >
> > - -jgh
> >
> > - --
> > Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer
> > jgh at FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh
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> Funny you should mention this. I am working on the bhyve implementation
> in the cluster and was just discussing libvirt with some of my cohorts.
>
> Let me review this status report and get back to you on it. I'd like to
> use your work to get bhyve into a useable state for bsdcan if possible.
>
> Sean
>
>
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