C bhyve administration tool

[Larry Rosenman]

On 2015-11-04 03:47, Matt Churchyard via freebsd-virtualization wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Couple months ago I started writing a bhyve management tool in C for
>> our startup, in preparation for migration to FreeBSD for our servers.
>> The goal was to be able to create, drop, and auto-start/stop/restart
>> VMs, individually or all at once, and provide a plugin infrastructure
>> to expose some metrics / errors for reporting and aggregation. More
>> importantly it would detect errors/failures, report them and attempt
>> to restart the VM per assigned policy.
>> 
>> The effort stalled due to some high priority work that crept in.
>> However, I am planning on restarting soon and wanted to check if there
>> was a need for something like this.  I ran across Michael Dexter's
>> vmrc, and although its shell based, it does provide quite a bit of
>> features that we were looking for.  There's also iohyve. And I heard
>> Peter and Neel are working on something as well. If there is interest,
>> this would be open sourced from the start. Or if there is an existing
>> effort that addresses these problems, I would love to contribute to 
>> that project.
>> 
>> Thoughts, comments, concerns, please share.
>> 
> 
>> vm-bhyve is most mature to this point IME, just don't use the ports 
>> version.
> 
>> Adam
> 
> Thanks Adam :)
> 
> I could do with updating the port. Unfortunately this is my first
> porting experience so not exactly sure of the 'correct' channel to go
> through to get things updated. It took 2 months for my original port
> request to be addressed and I'm not sure re-opening that bug is the
> right way to do it.
> 
> If anyone uses the port, the error that gets printed when running 'vm
> init' can be completely ignored. It's just trying to load any existing
> virtual switches from the switch configuration file, and complaining
> that the switch configuration file doesn't exist. Apart from that and
> a few newer features/tweaks, I don't think there's anything
> particularly show-stopping about the current port/package if people
> prefer installing it that way to downloading from GitHub.
> 
> Of course it would still be interesting to see a "real" bhyve
> management tool (possibly even an official one) written in C.
> 
to update an existing port, create a PR with the patch to update it, and 
then wait.  If a
committer doesn't grab it within a reasonable time, post to 
freebsd-ports to get their attention.

Do run poudriere testport and provide the output.



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