Request for testers: virt-manager, libvirt, and bhyve

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel at freebsd.org> wrote:
>   Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I created a patch for the deskutils/virt-manager port to add support
>> for bhyve.  virt-manager depends on libvirt, so the work
>> that Roman has done with libvirt is critical for it to work.
>>
>> I have instructions for setting it up here, plus a screenshot of the
>> virt-manager UI:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/libvirt/virt-manager.html
>>
>> Is there anyone interested in testing this and providing feedback?
>>
>> Also, since virt-manager is in Python, is there anyone out there interested
>> in improving this patch, and sending it upstream to the virt-manager
>> developers?
>
> Hi Craig,
>
> Back in April bhyve support was added into virt-manager master [1]. So
> it should be there in the next release.
>
> I've looked at updating the desktuils/virt-manager port to 1.0.x, but at
> that time it was blocked by some outdated dependency.
>
> 1: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/commit/?id=05df5a64843f2bd4e9a5197d97608d41b2e6dc43



Hi,

What ports dependency is blocking the update of the
deskutils/virt-manager port to 1.0.x?  We can get other ports
developers such as Bartlomiej to help.

--
Craig