Means to control a bhyve VM instance

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Sat Dec 21 22:56:40 UTC 2013


Hi Michał,
> May I ask you about the means to control a VM instance. I mean by that
> something providing similar features as QEMU's monitor interface along
> with QEMU
> Machine Protocol (QMP) do. Has it already been decided/designed how bhyve
> is going to handle features like a soft start/stop of a VM instance,
> hot-plugging of additional blk/net devices, etc?

  Decided, no, though the broad direction we're moving in is for bhyve 
to be a single process (reboots in-process, no external loader), and 
control from bhyvectl via some form of RPC.

later,

Peter.



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