C bhyve administration tool

[Matt Churchyard]

>> 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.
>-- 
>Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler

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>Hi Matt,
>if you need someone to help you updating the port and get it committed, drop me a line and I'll help.
>Lars

Hi Lars, Larry

Thanks both for your help.
Once I'm sure I won't be making any changes 5 minutes after submitting it, and don't have any other silly bugs scaring new users I will submit a PR.

Matt